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JobsPlus is a voluntary community-led, hyperlocal employment support programme designed to help people in social housing communities find work. This partnership paper presents the findings from the JobsPlus pilot evaluation which relate to working with local partners, summarising the wide-spread benefits of this approach.
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These top tips have been developed as part of the Labour Market Evidence programme, a partnership with Learning and Work institute. They share practical lessons on designing, delivering and evaluating local work and health programmes. They are designed for local and regional policy, delivery, data and evaluation teams, and senior decision makers.
This report offers an evidence synthesis of IES' evaluation of the Intensive Activity Programme (IAP). The programme was a package of intensive support and structured activities that claimants were required to complete within 21 days of making a new Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) claim, in addition to a full-time job search.
This report was authored by Helen Gray before she joined IES.
This paper, written by principal associate Peter Reilly, looks at the growing area of advanced HR analytics. Peter outlines the issues surrounding the definition of predictive analytics before considering why predictive analytics might be an appropriate move forward for organisations and how organisations might approach the implementation of such analytics.
This report contains the results of eight country cases studies for Denmark, France, Germany, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and the United Kingdom reviewing precarious employment. The case studies examine three types of employment in each country that were deemed to be at a relatively high risk of precariousness.
This study examines precarious employment, its patterns, trends and policy strategies in Europe. It explores the risk of precariousness of different types of contract, using information from EU data analysis and a literature review, as well as case studies of eight EU Member States. It finds that there are a range and degrees of risks of precariousness associated with all types of contract, based on key indicators of precariousness.
Duncan Brown's debrief podcast for IES HR Network event 'Gender pay gap reporting: full analysis and insight'.
Laurence Hopkins' presentation slides from IES HR Network event 'Gender pay gap reporting: full analysis and insight', 21 July 2016
Audrey Williams' slides from IES HR Network event 'Gender pay gap reporting: full analysis and insight', 21 July 2016
Duncan Brown's presentation slides from IES HR Network event 'Gender pay gap reporting: full analysis and insight', 21 July 2016.
With a near-equal gender mix at the top of their organisation, Lewisham Council have successfully overcome the continuing gender pay and position inequality that still persists in many organisations across the UK. A new IES report investigates how Lewisham, with 56 per cent of those in senior grades female and a pay gap slightly in favour of women, have achieved this.
