Projects and case studies
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European Safety and Health Strategy evaluation
This was a mid-term evaluation of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work's (EU-OSHA) Strategy 2009-2014 that focused on its initial outputs and implementation stage. It also provided feedback on intermediate outcomes of EU-OSHA...
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Climate Change and the Green Economy
IES was commissioned by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Dublin, to co-ordinate an international comparative survey about government and social partner policies, initiatives, actions and tools that...
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Conference support for the International Labour Organisation
IES provided help and support to the International Labour Organisation, for the organisation of an international seminar on social responsibility in enterprise restructuring, held in Dublin in December 2009, as part of a series of seminars in EU...
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Increasing the Participation of Migrants and Ethnic Minorities in Employment
IES worked for MigrationWork to support the European Commission’s learning network, IMPART (Increasing the Participation of Migrants and Ethnic Minorities in Employment).IMPART aims to help the European Commission understand how ESF funding can be...
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Testing the Link Between Educational System and Recruitment Practice
The German Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) tasked partners from the UK (IES), Finland (Research Unit for the Sociology of Education, University of Turku) and Spain (IKEI Research and Consultancy) with a feasibility...
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Responses to Tackling Work-related Stress
IES co-ordinated an international comparative survey about social partner responses to tackling work-related stress. It focused on the risk factors and the interventions that have been put into place to try to deal with work-related stress. The...
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The impact of emerging forms of interfirm relationships on employment and working conditions
The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions commissioned IES, with the Manchester Business School’s European Work and Employment Research Centre (EWERC), to conduct a comparative international study of the impact...
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Wage Formation and Development Across Europe
IES co-ordinated an international comparative study on wage formation, commissioned by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Dublin. The study examined a range of issues, including wage formation and wage...
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Socially-Sensitive Enterprise Restructuring Guidelines for the ILO
IES was commissioned by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to devise a set of practical guidelines and recommendations on how to manage enterprise restructuring in a socially sensitive way, based on case studies from Serbia, Croatia,...
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Quality Assurance for the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
IES provided quality assurance services to the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions. The Foundation publishes a range of information updates and larger comparative studies on its three Observatory websites,...