Department for Education and Skills Research Report RR658 The increasing prominence of recruitment and retention problems combined with a long-standing concern that the sector faces a Ôretirement bulge' à as academics from the 1960s expansion reach retirement à has lead to concern about...

A comment on 'How to close the gender pay gap in Europe' by Jill Rubery, Damien Grimshaw and Hugo Figueiredo, which appears in the same issue of the journal.

ÔEmployers' role in the low pay-no pay cycle', CASE/LSE Seminar, Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE, London, 10 November 2010.

Unemployment amongst some groups of people with a criminal record is known to be high. This research explores the role of criminal record in employment and, in particular, whether criminal records are a barrier to work. The report also estimates the impact of new legislation (in the Police Act...

ÔReducing employers' use of low paid, insecure employment: institutional pressures and policy responses' ESRC-funded Seminar Series 2010-11 Making Bad Jobs Better Seminar 2: How can bad jobs be made more bearable? St Anne's College, Oxford, 21 September 2010.

Published by the Department for Education and Employment- Research Report 47. For further information click here.

Paper presented to the National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy International Conference 2005, 10-12 March, Staverton Park, Northants (with Pamela Meadows).