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The purpose of this paper is to examine the welfare participation of immigrant groups in the UK, which has experienced a large growth in its immigrant flows and population levels in recent years, especially following EU enlargement in 2004. The analysis particularly focuses on the types of benefits that immigrants tend to claim, as well…

This paper focuses on the policy discourse of the Commonwealth in Wales, UK general election manifestos 1945–2010. It reveals party politicization in the immediate post-war period underpinned by contrasts in policy framing and a Left–Right cleavage spanning a range of issues including immigration and development. A significant post-1970 decline in salience is shown to be…

Large investments of time and money are made by government, employers and workers in education and training. For the economy to thrive, the best use needs to be made of the skills produced. This report provides new evidence on whether employers in Britain are doing so and whether jobs are being upskilled.

Good quality and extensive training opportunities are essential for increasing the skills of the workforce. This report tracks what has been happening in Britain’s workplaces in recent years.

Employees’ ability to influence decisions at work is one of the most important factors affecting their motivation and psychological well-being, and is also associated with good physical health. This report examines the trends in different types of employee control in British workplaces, and presents a mixed picture.

There has been a longstanding interest in the impacts of socio-spatial variations in accessibility to public and private services in both urban and rural contexts. Previous studies have found that rural communities are often disproportionately impacted in accessibility terms by changes in service configuration. The aim of this study is to examine such claims in…

The contemporary wave of neoliberal globalization has given rise to a new class of the global super-rich, whose wealth is based on a global web of financial interests, and whose lives are lived transnationally between various homes, offices and retreats (see Hay and Muller 2012). The geographies of this transnational elite have been conventionally closely…

Mae’r gwerthusiad yn defnyddio methodoleg dulliau cymysg, gan gynnwys elfen feintiol wedi’i seilio ar setiau data presennol. Mae’r gwerthusiad yn adrodd am ddau ganfyddiad allweddol ond cydgysylltiedig. Y cyntaf yw bod tystiolaeth gref i awgrymu bod CBC yn arbennig o werthfawr o ran helpu myfyrwyr i gael eu derbyn i addysg uwch. Mae’n ymddangos bod…

Polisi blaenllaw Llywodraeth Cymru ar addysg y blynyddoedd cynnar (ar gyfer plant rhwng 3 a 7 oed) yng Nghymru yw’r Cyfnod Sylfaen. Trwy nodi gwyriad radical oddi wrth y dull mwy ffurfiol, yn seiliedig ar gymhwysedd oedd yn gysylltiedig â Chwricwlwm Cenedlaethol blaenorol Cyfnod Allweddol 1, mae’n eirioli dull datblygiadol, arbrofol, yn seiliedig ar chwarae…

The aim of the 2011 ESF Leavers Survey is to assist in assessing the effectiveness of labour market interventions delivered under ESF. Telephone interviews were conducted with over six thousand people who had left an ESF project delivered under Priorities 2 and 3 of the Convergence Programme and Priorities 1 and 2 of the Competitiveness…