Projects and case studies
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Information services: quality of work and employment, industrial relations and restructuring and management of change
IES was commissioned to provide information reporting services to the Dublin European Foundation's Observatory websites on industrial relations, working conditions and change management, relating to developments at EU-level.
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Research on the role of temporary agency work in facilitating transitions in the labour market
IES worked as a partner on an international research project, co-ordinated by Wilke, Maack and Partner in Germany, examining the role of temporary agency work and its potential contribution to transitions in the labour market. IES carried out...
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Evaluation of Apprenticeship Grant for Employers of 16 to 24 year olds
At a point when youth unemployment was a particular challenge, the Apprenticeship Grant for Employment was designed to make a significant contribution to ameliorating this problem, with potentially major savings to the long-term social...
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Ex-post evaluation of the ESENER survey
The European Survey of Enterprises on New and Emerging Risks (ESENER) is a pan-European survey of enterprises across 31 countries and is focussed on exploring management practice and policy with regard to managing health and safety risks at work....
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Perspectives of the European Land Armament Sector
The main aim of this study, for the European Metalworkers Federation, was to examine the medium and long-term business, industrial and employment perspectives of the European land armament sector. It collected state-of-the-art information,...
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Comparative Analytical Report on the impact of the crisis on industrial relations
Eurofound commissioned IES to coordinate a comparative analytical report on the impact of the crisis on industrial relations in the EU27 Member States. The study looked at impacts on the social partners, and processes such as collective bargaining...
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Country case studies for the ILO/World Bank
IES was commissioned to produce country case studies of the UK and Canadian apprenticeship systems for the ILO/World Bank project on ‘Possible futures for the Indian Apprenticeship system’.
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Labour Market Transitions of Young People
The purpose of this assignment was to provide an overview of good practices in selected member states that promote successful school-to-work transitions for both young people in general and those who face specific labour market barriers, notably...
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EU-OSHA website content review: Phase 2
This was the second phase of a review of EU-OSHA's website, feeding into the development of the agency's on-line strategy. This phase of the review conducted a qualitative benchmarking review of comparable websites to validate the Agency's...
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Evaluation of EU-OSHA's use of the European Enterprise Network for passing information on OSH to SMEs
IES was commissioned by EU-OSHA to evaluate its communication partnership project (CPP), the aim of which is to improve the reach of communication on OSH topics to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across Europe. The evaluation included a...