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  • Understanding Workless People and Communities

    A Literature Review

    Ritchie H, Casebourne J, Rick J | May 2005 | Department for Work and Pensions

    This literature review firstly examines how psychosocial models are used to explain the effects that mass unemployment has on individuals. It then explores the concept of worklessness and the barriers faced by key groups of workless people. The review moves on to examine, in turn, how worklessness can be understood at the individual level, the community level, and at the level of geographical concentrations of worklessness.

  • Slides 'Jaguar Land Rover Case Study'

    Rob Gill | Jul 2015 | Jaguar Land Rover

    Rob Gill's slides from the IES HR Network event: 'Tapping into the Youth Labour Market'

  • Labour Market Statistics, December 2020

    Dec 2020 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This briefing note sets out analysis of the Labour Market Statistics published on 15 December 2020.

  • Labour Market Statistics, January 2021

    Jan 2021 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This briefing note sets out analysis of the Labour Market Statistics published on 26 January 2021.

  • Labour Market Statistics, August 2021

    Aug 2021 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This briefing note sets out analysis of the Labour Market Statistics published on 17 August 2021.

  • Labour Market Statistics, March 2023

    Mar 2023 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This briefing note sets out analysis of the Labour Market Statistics published on 14 March 2023.

  • IES Policy levers and practices

    Slides: tackling youth employment

    Policy levers and effective practices

    Becci Newton | Jul 2025 | Institute for Employment Studies

    Becci Newton considers what we have learnt about providing youth employability support over many years, and considers what we might need in our toolkit to support better outcomes for those joining the labour force now and in the future.

  • Labour Market Statistics, April 2023

    Apr 2023 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This briefing note sets out analysis of the Labour Market Statistics published on 18 April 2023.

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    European Restructuring Monitor Quarterly - 2010, Issue 1

    Hurley J, Riso S, Salvatore L, Billingham D, Schulze-Marmeling S, Broughton A | May 2010 | European Monitoring Centre on Change

    Though no longer in recession, the EU economy remained fragile, with growth well below trend rates. Unemployment continued to rise, though at a slowing pace (it stood at 9.6% in the EU27 in February 2010).

  • Securing a place for young people in the nation’s economic recovery

    Final recommendations from the Youth Employment Group (YEG)

    Sep 2020 | Youth Employment Group

    This paper presents the final recommendations from the Youth Employment Group, for measures to support young people through the Covid-19 crisis, improve their employment prospects and prevent mass youth unemployment.