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    Evaluation of the Working Neighbourhoods Pilot - Final report

    Dewson S, Casebourne J, Darlow A, Bickerstaffe T, Fletcher D R, Gore T, Krishnan S | Feb 2007 | Department for Work and Pensions

    The Working Neighbourhoods Pilot (WNP) was introduced by the Department for Work and Pensions in April 2004 to test a new approach to offering intensive support to help people to gain work. This report presents the findings of the evaluation of the WNP. The evaluation comprised four main elements: a literature review; analysis of secondary and administrative data, undertaken by DWP analysts, to compare trends in benefit flows over time and against 12 selected comparison sites; detailed case study work with stakeholders in each of the pilot sites, and their matched comparison sites; and an eligible residents' survey of 1,200 residents across the 12 pilot sites looking at attitudes and motivations towards employment, and their experiences of employment, unemployment and the pilot.

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    Merging Rewards

    Paying for Business Change

    Suff P, Reilly P | Jan 2007 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This paper examines how to handle reward systems through periods of business change and looks at what issues need to be tackled and how. Case studies from recently merged companies illustrate different approaches to handling reward strategy, pay and benefits.

  • Investigating the Sectoral and Regional Effects of the 2003 and 2004 National Minimum Wage Upratings

    Blake N, Burrell A, Goodwin A (Experian), Jagger N (IES) | Jan 2007 | Low Pay Commission

    This report looks behind the aggregate responses to the National Minimum Wage (NMW) to establish if there are specific regional and sector impacts. The hypothesis is that the nature of the NMW (a minimum rate that prevails in any part of the country) could have different effects on regions and sectors with very different wage distributions.

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    Mental Health and Work

    Sinclair A, O'Regan S | Jan 2007 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This report reviews the literature on mental health issues at work and the interventions available to tackle them, in order to provide some guidance to help employers deal with the issues within their own companies. This report outlines the benefits of taking a more positive approach to tackling mental health issues, going beyond complying with legislation, towards promoting mental well-being at work.

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    Creating a Well Workforce

    A case study

    Alice Sinclair | Jan 2007 | Institute for Employment Studies

    To what extent is it employers' responsibility to look after their employees? What is the best approach to take and what benefits are they likely to see? This report seeks to answer these questions by presenting a case study of one organisation currently involved in health promotion activities. British Gas Business, part of Centrica, has been running a series of activities to promote health and well-being amongst its workforce for a number of years.

  • Assessing the Net Added Value of Advice and Guidance

    Pollard E, Tyers C, Tuohy S, Cowling M | Jan 2007 | Department for Education and Skills

    This research explores the impact of information, advice and guidance (IAG) on adults in work or education, and specifically investigates the relative impact of more in-depth careers support (advice and guidance) over that of information provision. The research design was a longitudinal survey of recipients of careers support (or recipients of IAG). The first survey took place in 2004 and involved more than 4,000 individuals. The second survey, in 2006, followed-up these original participants, achieving almost 1,300 interviews.

  • An Evaluation of the UfI/learndirect Telephone Guidance Trial

    Page R, Newton B, Hawthorn R, Hunt W, Hillage J | Jan 2007 | Department for Education and Skills

    In 2005 the government established a review of information, advice and guidance services for adults in order to help achieve the long-term objective of a universally available, high quality and well-used service offering linked information, advice and guidance for adults. One element of the review was to conduct and evaluate a trial extension of the UfI/learndirect telephone guidance service to handle a substantially larger volume of calls and to test a three-stage call-back and action planning model. This evaluation of the learndirect guidance trial draws on the findings from a number of research strands including a scored quality analysis of 100 calls to the service, a survey of 1,000 service users, interviews with learndirect advisors, and an analysis of management and financial information.

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    Danger: UK at Work!

    Cowling M, Sinclair A | Jan 2007 | Institute for Employment Studies

    With the Lords ruling allowing employees to sue their bosses for negligence if they are subject to violence or harassment at work, IES questioned whether UK employers were facing a potential glut of litigation in the courts from distressed employees. Our evidence showed that the UK had a very poor record in comparison to most core EU countries on violence and intimidation in the workplace, although it had cleaned up its act to a degree since the very violent 1990s.

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    The Desire for Income Equality Amongst the UK Adult Population

    Cowling M, Harding R | Jan 2007 | Institute for Employment Studies

    Whilst there is a volume of literature mapping out the evolution, causes and implications of income inequality across countries, there is little in-depth evidence concerning the desire of populations for income equality. This paper tackled this gap by presenting UK evidence from a large-scale adult population survey for 2003. The headline result was that 75 per cent of the UK adult population preferred a fairer income distribution.

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    A Note on Productive Learning

    Cowling M | Jan 2007 | Institute for Employment Studies

    We use a standard production function to identify the impact of learning-by-doing on the productivity of labour, human capital and physical capital. Using data from a representative sample of 1,000 UK businesses, we observe that learning effects on labour and human capital productivity are highest when firms are very young. By contrast, learning has the greatest effect on the productivity of physical capital the older a firm becomes.