Tackling unemployment and raising productivity rates are vital to prosperity and social justice. Key to this is understanding how individuals gain access to, and progress within, an integrated employment and skills system.
CFE’s work in this area focuses on the themes of: progression into employment; progression within work; and workforce development. Within this, our work addresses worklessness, reform of the welfare-to-work system, workforce improvement and efficiency, skills audits and service trials (e.g. adult advancement and careers service).
Our research informs employment and welfare-to-work policy that affects particular groups such as those facing labour market disadvantage including: lone parents, older workers, workless households, migrants, low paid workers, ex-offenders and NEETs.