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Why are we still seeing age discrimination when hiring senior workers?, IN Human Resource (HR), Sep 2018, pp42-44 [2018]

Explores five key misconceptions about workers over the age of fifty and makes recommendations for how they can be overcome. Describes how age discrimination was outlawed in the UK in 2006, but argue...

Younger workers’ attitudes and perceptions towards older colleagues, IN Working with Older People, Vol 22 No 3 2018, pp129-138 [2018]

Investigates younger workers’ perceptions of older colleagues, including whether there is evidence of ageism. Reports that convenience sampling was used to recruit ten individuals who were both below ...

Barriers for highly qualified A8 immigrants in the UK labour market, IN Work, Employment and Society, Vol 32 No 5 Oct 2018, pp906-924 [2018]

Examines over-qualification among A8 migrants (those from 2004 EU accession countries in Eastern and Central Europe) in the UK. Uses the Annual Population Survey from 2005-2012 to investigate whether ...

The impact of migration on productivity and native-born workers' training (Institute of Labor Economics discussion paper no 11833) [2018]

Explores the relationship between migration and productivity in the UK, first considering conceptually different mechanisms such as within-firm complementarities, within-sector spillovers, and incenti...

Immobility and the Brexit vote [2018]

Explores the role of mobility or internal migration in the Brexit referendum. Observes that popular explanations of the EU referendum result have centred on the division between locally-oriented, geog...

Job changes and interregional migration of graduates, IN Regional Studies, Vol 52 No 10 Oct 2018, pp1346-1359 [2018]

Analyses determinants of graduates' decisions to out-migrate from a region and how the importance of these determinants varies over job changes. Uses panel data from a German graduate survey, and esti...

Impact of international students in the UK [2018]

Examines the economic and other impacts of students from other countries studying in the UK. Outlines the policy context for the study and the way in which it was undertaken by the Migration Advisory ...

Becoming an age-friendly employer [2018]

Provides guidance to employers on measures to enable them to plan for and deal with an older workforce, drawing on good practice case studies. Outlines the benefits of becoming an age-friendly employe...

Migration versus immobility, and ties to parents, IN European Journal of Population, Aug 2018, pp1-22 [2018]

Uses British panel data from the Understanding Society study to investigate the association between geographic proximity to parents and the likelihood of migration in Britain. Notes that seeing parent...

With or without EU? How changes to European migration will affect cities after Brexit [2018]

Examines the contribution that EU migrants make to urban economies in England and Wales, and considers the impact that changes to migration policy may have on cities. Finds that: more than two-thirds ...