Publications

This publication was authored by Kari Hadjivassiliou before she joined IES.

This research provided qualitative evidence towards the evaluation of the IAP 50 Plus Pilots, which trialled the benefits of making participation in the Intensive Activity Period mandatory for New Deal 25 plus participants aged between 50 and 59. The research focused on four of the 14 pilot sites, and was principally based on face-to-face interviews involving 75 staff, 23 providers and 182 participants, in two waves, in spring 2005 and winter 2005/06.

This report presents the findings from research commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions and carried out by IES on the barriers to employment for Pakistanis and Bangladeshis in Britain. The research study comprised five discrete stages: a review of the literature and other relevant information; interviews with key experts and informants in the field; an analysis of the labour markets of five selected locations in Britain: Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Glasgow and Tower Hamlets in London; a survey of 1,000 employing establishments in the five locations; and in-depth interviews with Pakistani and Bangladeshi jobseekers and non-jobseekers.

This report presents the findings from a Review of Action Teams for Jobs undertaken from June 2005 to February 2006. The review a consultation exercise to gather information from all 65 Action Teams; interviews with key national policy and operational staff; analysis of Management Information data (from April 2004 to March 2005); and six detailed case studies to examine the experience of six different Action Teams.

This publication was authored by Kari Hadjivassiliou before she joined IES.

This report presents the interim findings from the first year of the evaluation of the Working Neighbourhoods Pilot (WNP). The WNP was established in April 2004 to test a new approach to offering intensive support to help people to gain work. The pilot was targeted towards people who were without work, including claimants of Jobseeker's Allowance, Income Support, Incapacity Benefit, partners of claimants and workless non-claimants.

This report presents the main findings from a representative national survey of nearly 1,500 employers who had recruited individuals registered under the New Deal for Disabled People (NDDP) during the period July 2002 to July 2003. It aimed to provide a quantitative assessment of the nature and scale of employer involvement with the programme, as a complement to two waves of qualitative research with employers (undertaken in 2002 and 2003).

This study aimed to examine what employers seek when recruiting, and the extent to which government provision meets their needs. The focus was on unemployed and inactive adults aged between 16 and state pension age. A secondary aim was to explore whether there were differences in employers' requirements by age.

The permitted work rules (PWR) were introduced in April 2002 and replaced the existing provisions, commonly known as therapeutic work (TW). This report presents the findings from a final wave of research at the end of a three-year evaluation of the permitted work rules undertaken by the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) in partnership with MORI.

The New Deal for Disabled People (NDDP) was a major labour market programme for disabled people who wanted to find work. It formed a key part of the government's Welfare to Work strategy. This report sets out the findings from the second wave of qualitative research with employers. At the time the research was carried out, NDDP had been operating nationally for two years.