British Skills and Employment Survey series, we analyse trends in the labour market between 1997/2001 and 2006/2012. The …

This paper investigates changes in the use of generic skills in Britain's workplaces, and examines which generic skills …. We use instruments borrowed and adapted from commercial psychology to derive quantitative measures of generic skills used …. The analysis shows that: (a) with the exception of physical skills, most generic skills are becoming more important in …

Employees and their line managers may have different perceptions of the skills used in jobs. We carried out a survey … aimed at explaining such differences, in respect of verbal, physical, problem-solving and planning skills, the … qualifications required to get the job, and indicators of the autonomy involved in the job. First, for most of our skills indices …

Using a method for measuring job skills derived from survey data on detailed work activities, we show that between 1997 … and 2001 there was a growth in Britain in the utilisation of computing skills, literacy, numeracy, technical know …-how, high-level communication skills, planning skills, client communication skills, horizontal communication skills, problem …

Using a method for measuring job skills derived from survey data on detailed work activities, we show that between 1997 … and 2001 there was a growth in Britain in the utilisation of computing skills, literacy, numeracy, technical know …-how, high-level communication skills, planning skills, client communication skills, horizontal communication skills, problem …