Research Online

Recent headline documents

• The skills dilemma: skills under-utilisation and low-wage work
  Considers how to tackle the problem of limited demand for skills. Looks at how skills utilisation could improve low-wage work.
• UK employer skills survey 2011: first findings
  Provides initial results from a survey of UK employers on skills deficiencies and workforce development.
• Learning and talent development
  Presents survey results into workforce development and human resource management practices in the UK.
• The long term effect of vocational qualifications on labour market outcomes
  Assesses the effect of vocational education and training on employment, unemployment and wages.
• The relative importance of local labour market conditions and pupil attainment on post-compulsory schooling decisions
  Shows that local labour market conditions are usually less important influences on pupil's career decisions than attainment and aspiration.