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  • Labour Market Statistics, April 2021

    Apr 2021 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This briefing note sets out analysis of the Labour Market Statistics published on 20 April 2021.

  • Social dimension of intra-EU mobility: Impact on public services

    Dec 2015 | European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound)

    This report looks at the impact of intra-EU mobility on the public services of Member States of the European Union. The current debate in many Member States centres on the ‘welfare magnet hypothesis’, which holds that migrants, including mobile citizens from the central and eastern European Member States, are attracted by the better quality of these services and easier access to them in the host countries.

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    Measuring Soft Outcomes and Distance Travelled: A Review of Current Practice

    Dewson S, Eccles J, Tackey N D, Jackson A | Jul 2000 | Department for Education and Employment

    Monitoring systems for employment programmes targeting unemployed people have traditionally focused on 'hard', quantitative outcomes such as the numbers going into jobs or gaining qualifications. However, it is often both unlikely and inappropriate for projects to expect to achieve 'hard' outcomes from target groups that are facing multiple barriers to employment. IES was commissioned to look at the use of 'soft', qualitative outcomes on projects funded by the European Social Fund (ESF).

  • Shared Employer Engagement in Practice Report

    Shared Employer Engagement in Practice

    Lessons learned from Restart collaboration

    Kramers E, Allen A, Gloster R, Litsardopoulos N | Jul 2025 | IES

    This report covers research into the value and impact of the Restart employment programme in terms of the prime Restart providers and the employers they support.

  • What works in youth employment partnerships

    A guide to improve practice and case study collection

    Orlando C | Jun 2021 | Institute for Employment Studies

    The 'What Works in Youth Employment Partnerships’ guide and case study collection are the first outputs from a three-year Health Foundation-funded project led by IES on improving access to good quality work for young people.

  • Working for the Future: Launch report for the Commission on the Future of Employment Support

    Wilson T, Patel R, Edwards M, Mason B, Muir D | Nov 2022 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This report launches a new Commission on the Future of Employment Support, which IES is providing the secretariat for and is being funded by abrdn Financial Fairness Trust.

  • The Central London Works evaluation

    Williams C, Cook J, Wilson T, Alexander K, Buzzeo J, Fox H | Jun 2022 | Institute for Employment Studies

    These reports cover the evaluation of the Central London Works (CLW) which aimed to help individuals who faced barriers to work to find and sustain good quality employment.

  • Supporting highly qualified participants ReAct report

    Supporting Highly Qualified Participants: Exploring Routes to Success

    Kramers E, Fox H, Mason D and Mansour J | Feb 2025 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This research explores how highly qualified and experienced participants are supported by Restart, what is working across a range of approaches, and identifies recommendations for improving the quality of service to individuals in this cohort.

  • Work in Progress: Interim report of the Commission on the Future of Employment Support

    Campbell B, Dave A, Patel R, Plowden Roberts C, Wilson T | Jul 2023 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This report presents findings from the first six months of the Commission’s work, comprising a major Call for Evidence that received around one hundred responses; twenty consultation events, workshops and focus groups; and an extensive review of the literature around ‘what works’ in employment support.

  • Shared employer engagement in practice: what works

    ReAct: collaborating for employers

    Gloster R, Kramers E | Sep 2025 | Institute for Employment Studies

    In our second briefing paper, we turn our focus to another Restart collaboration, that of the Prime Provider Network which represents national employer engagement teams from across the Restart providers.