Presented at the National Council for Voluntary Organisations

This report is about undergraduate students' experience of, and attitudes towards, part-time study and its costs. It was commissioned by the Graham Review, which has been tasked by the Welsh Assembly Government and the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales to consider policy regarding...

British Educational Research Association Annual Conference

Presented at INDICSER mid-term conference, Valencia

The authors use the British establishment-level data from the 1991 Employers\\\' manpower and Skills Practices Survey (EMSPS) and indivdual-level data from the Autumn 1993 Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) to investigate the links between training provision and workplace unionization. Both th...

In this paper we use establishment-level data to examine what managers mean when they report having skills shortages. We find that the concept of a skills shortage is not always the same as a hard-to-fill vacancy despite the latter being used by many authors who have considered the economic...

This report is about undergraduate students' experience of, and attitudes towards, part-time study, its costs and student support. It was commissioned by Universities UK and GuildHE (previously SCOP). The study was carried out by Professor Claire Callender of London South Bank University, the...

Research to date suggests that the UK National Minimum Wage (NMW) has raised the earnings of low paid workers, without significantly affecting their employment opportunities. We re-examine existing evidence and suggest the picture is less clear cut. We explore whether the impacts of the NMW...

This working paper seeks to identify any impact of receiving Disability Living Allowance (DLA) on recipients' care and mobility arrangements, their standard of living and measures of social inclusion/exclusion through quantitative secondary analysis of existing data. The paper also focuses on...

Presented at INDICSER mid-term conference, Valencia