How do figures for earnings vary between the New earnings Survey and the Labour Force Survey? This article looks at these variances and the reasons behind them, and describes the work ONS is doing to adjust the data to allow for these discrepancies.

This report examines the impact of higher education for part-time undergraduate students. It is based on secondary analysis of data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency's Longitudinal Destination of Leavers from Higher Education (Longitudinal DLHE) survey. The analysis compares how...

A regression discontinuity approach is used to analyse the effect of the legislated increase in the UK national minimum wage that occurs at age 22 years on various labour market outcomes. Using data from the Labour Force Survey we find an increase of 3–4 percentage points in the rate of...

The purpose of this study is to investigate what impact, if any, collective bargaining had on managerial and employee perceptions of the employee relations climate and managerial perceptions of workplace financial performance in Britain by the end of the 1990s. This assessment is made using...

Seminar at Open University Centre for Inclusion and Curriculum

The New Deal for Young People (NDYP) was introduced in Great Britain in January 1998 as one of the key parts of the government\\\'s welfare to work strategy. The aims of the programme were to help the young unemployed people into work and increase their employability. NDYP is for 18-24 year-olds...

UKCeMGA and NIESR International Conference on Public Service Measurement

A regression discontinuity approach is used to analyse the effect of the legislated increase in the UK National Minimum Wage (NMW) that occurs at age 22 on various labour market outcomes. Using data from the Labour Force Survey we find a 2-4% point increase in the employment rate of low skilled...

The main aim of this report is to identify whether there was any change in the level and distribution of pay of young workers between 1998 and 2000. The report also considers changes in the probability of receiving both on-the-job and off-the-job training between 1998 and 2000. Further to...