Melanie Jones

Professor of Economics Cardiff University

JonesM116@cardiff.ac.uk 02920875079

Melanie joined Cardiff Business School in 2015 having previously held positions in the University of Sheffield and Swansea University. Her research in empirical labour economics involves the quantitative analysis of large scale secondary data. She has worked on a range of policy relevant issues but has a particular interest in the interaction between health and the labour market.

Her recent research has tried to answer questions such as Is there earnings discrimination against disabled individuals? Do older workers have more accidents and injuries at work? Do disabled individuals have a different perception of their treatment at work? This work has been published in high quality international journals such as Oxford Economic Papers, Economics Letters, Cambridge Journal of Economics, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Social Science and Medicine, and Work, Employment and Society.

Melanie Jones Bio

Identity and civic divides in the UK

Identity and civic divides in the UK examines the relationship between different forms of identity (disability, sexuality, religion) and political participation and wellbeing. It explores whether identity groups experience differential abilities to exercise rights, and possible explanations for any differences. Start date provided is that of the WISERD Civil Society Centre. Work packages will have…

Research Team: David Blackaby (Swansea University), Melanie Jones (Cardiff University), Nigel O'Leary (Swansea University)

Understanding the Gender Pay Gap within the UK Public Sector

WISERD researchers, Melanie Jones and Esgi Kaya have evaluated the size of the gender pay gap within UK public sector occupations such as teaching and nursing after they successfully secured a research grant from the Office of Manpower Economics (OME). The research has informed the work of the independent public sector pay review bodies. They used large…

Research Team: Ezgi Kaya (Cardiff University), Melanie Jones (Cardiff University)

Wellbeing, Deprivation & Social Cohesion

Overview This project utilised a range of econometric techniques to investigate the nature of the relationship between the domains of individual subjective wellbeing, individual and household characteristics, work/life circumstances, and a range of indicators related to the measurement of social cohesion and civil society. The main UK data sets used by the WP included: Understanding…

Research Team: David Blackaby (Swansea University), James Healy (Swansea University), Melanie Jones (Cardiff University), Philip Murphy (Swansea University), Prashant Gupta (Brunel University London), Samuel Brown (Swansea University)

Labour Market Implications of Changes in the Public Sector

In 2010 the UK coalition Government committed itself to an active policy of fiscal consolidation designed to ‘eliminate’ the structural deficit by the end of the current parliament (HM Budget, March 2011). As part of their consolidation plans the Government announced its intention to promote a rebalancing of the UK economy, away from public sector…

Research Team: Alan Felstead (Cardiff University), David Blackaby (Swansea University), Gerald Makepeace (Cardiff University), Melanie Jones (Cardiff University), Philip Murphy (Swansea University), Victoria Wass (Cardiff University)

Labour Market Implications of Changes in the Public Sector: Inequality

The UK gender Pay gap 1998-2013: What is the role of the public sector? The Quarterly Labour Force Survey was used to compare gender wage gap in the public and private sectors between 1998 and 2013 and to identify the contribution of the sectoral employment allocation to the overall gender pay gap. The study covered…

Labour Market Implications of Changes in the Public Sector: Public Sector Pay

Pay determination and outcomes in the public sector Data from the Labour Force Survey was used to investigate public sector wage differential in the UK 1994 to 2012. In the first of a set of analyses, three separate sub-periods are considered in detail, each characterise broadly different government policy stances towards the public sector and different…

Unlocking the potential of the Welsh Local Labour Force Survey: an investigation into labour market transitions in Wales

The project aimed to highlight the potential value of an important but currently underutilised dataset, the Welsh Local Labour Force Survey (WLLFS). The main aim was to provide new evidence relating to labour market transitions in Wales. In terms of the analysis we propose two separate pieces of research that both use the WLLFS to examine ‘at…

Research Team: David Blackaby (Swansea University), Melanie Jones (Cardiff University), Philip Murphy (Swansea University), Rhys Davies (Cardiff University), Stephen Drinkwater (University of Roehampton)

Analysis of the Correlates of Self Reported Work Related Illness in the Labour Force Survey

Overview Work has long been acknowledged as an important social determinant of health with research being conducted as to how a range of workplace, personal and job characteristics influence occupational health. Recent research has demonstrated the importance of the economic environment in terms of understanding movements in rates of workplace injury, both in terms of…

Research Team: Emma Wadsworth (Solent University), Huw Lloyd-Williams (Bangor University), Melanie Jones (Cardiff University), Rhys Davies (Cardiff University)

Labour Market Implications of Changes in the Public Sector: Work Quality

Pay and Job Quality: Is the Grass Greener in the Public Sector? The unadjusted public-private sector pay differential has attracted considerable political interest since the coalition government came to power in the UK in 2010. It has been used to justify changes to pay setting arrangements and the imposition of pay restraint on the public sector. However, previous analyses have…

An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in Wales

The National Equality Panel’s report An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK provided a milestone in our understanding of relationships between people’s characteristics and their financial position. Through detailed analysis of complex datasets, some newly available, it charted in depth how ‘inequalities in people’s economic outcomes – such as earnings, income and wealth – are related…

Research Team: Alison Parken (Cardiff University), Caroline Joll (Cardiff University), Catherine Robinson (University of Kent), Chris Taylor (Cardiff University), Gerald Makepeace (Cardiff University), Huw Lloyd-Williams (Bangor University), Mamata Parhi (Swansea University), Melanie Jones (Cardiff University), Rhys Davies (Cardiff University), Stephen Drinkwater (University of Roehampton), Victoria Wass (Cardiff University)

Journal Articles

Understanding the disability voting gap in the UK

Using nationally representative longitudinal data from Understanding Society we explore the relationship between disability and political participation in the UK. More specifically, we examine the determinants of the ‘disability voting gap’, and assess how it varies by the severity, type and chronicity of disability. After accounting for demographic characteristics, the disability voting gap across UK General Elections…

Civil Society, Inequalities | September 2023

Journal Articles

Disability and trade union membership in the UK

Using data from two national surveys, the Quarterly Labour Force Survey and the Workplace Employment Relations Survey, we establish evidence of a robust disability-related trade union membership differential in the UK. After controlling for differences in other personal and work-related characteristics, disabled employees are found to be 3.6 percentage points (12–14 per cent) more likely…

Work and Labour Markets | August 2023

Journal Articles

The dynamics of disability and benefit receipt in Britain

This article provides a comprehensive analysis of the dynamic relationship between disability and welfare benefit receipt in Britain. Exploiting rarely used longitudinal data, it examines the impact of disability onset and disability exit on receipt of a range of beneficial outcomes, utilizing differences in the timing of onset/exit for identification. Disability onset increases receipt of…

Health, Wellbeing & Social Care, Inequalities, Work and Labour Markets | November 2022

Paper

The UK Gender Pay Gap: Does Firm Size Matter?

Motivated by the introduction of the UK Gender Pay Gap Reporting legislation to large firms, defined as over 250 employees, we use linked employee-employer panel data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings to explore pre-legislation variation in the gender pay gap by firm size. In doing so, we integrate two prominent but distinct…

Inequalities, Work and Labour Markets | August 2022

Journal Articles

COVID-19 and the labour market outcomes of disabled people in the UK

The economic impact of COVID-19 has exacerbated inequalities in society, but disability has been neglected. This paper contributes to this knowledge gap by providing a comprehensive analysis of the differential labour market impact of COVID-19 by disability in the UK. Using data from the Labour Force Survey before and during the pandemic it estimates disability gaps in pre-pandemic…

Inequalities, Work and Labour Markets | Identity and civic divides in the UK | December 2021

Reports and Briefings

WISERD DWP ARI Workshop Summary

Summary of presentations at the WISERD and Department for Work and Pensions Areas of Research Interest (ARI) Workshop on the 23rd and 25th March 2021.

Civil Society, Inequalities, Work and Labour Markets | June 2021

Journal Articles

The gender pay gap: what can we learn from Northern Ireland?

Northern Ireland (NI) forms an important outlier to the established international pattern of a pronounced gender pay gap (GPG) in favour of men. Using contemporary data from the Quarterly Labour Force Survey we provide a comprehensive analysis of the GPG in NI and make comparisons to the rest of the UK. Despite the relatively common…

Inequalities, Work and Labour Markets | June 2021

Journal Articles

Disability and labor market outcomes

In Europe, about one in eight people of working age report having a disability; that is, a long-term limiting health condition. Despite the introduction of a range of legislative and policy initiatives designed to eliminate discrimination and facilitate retention of and entry into work, disability is associated with substantial and enduring labor market disadvantage in…

Health, Wellbeing & Social Care, Inequalities, Work and Labour Markets | March 2021

Paper

The Gender Pay Gap in UK Medicine

In this study we quantify the size and drivers of the contemporary gender pay gap among medical doctors employed in the UK public sector. In using nationally representative data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, we make comparisons to doctors employed in the private sector, as well as to other public sector medical…

Inequalities, Work and Labour Markets | Understanding the Gender Pay Gap within the UK Public Sector | March 2021

Reports and Briefings

Understanding the Gender Pay Gap within the UK Public Sector

By applying established regression and decomposition methods to secondary data from the 2018 Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) and the 2016-2018 Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) this report aims to enhance our understanding of the drivers of the contemporary gender pay gap (GPG) within the UK public sector. This is done in several…

Inequalities, Localities, Work and Labour Markets | Understanding the Gender Pay Gap within the UK Public Sector | August 2019

Journal Articles

The dynamic effect of disability on work and subjective well-being

Using longitudinal data from the Household, Income, and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey (2001–2013), we examine the relationship between the dynamics of work-limiting disability, employment, and life satisfaction. By employing two alternative classifications of the dynamic trajectories of disability, we are able to explicitly consider the influence of disability exit in addition to examining…

Inequalities, Localities, Work and Labour Markets | May 2018

Journal Articles

The UK Gender Pay Gap 1997-2015: What Is the Role of the Public Sector?

The Labour Force Survey is used to examine the influence of sector on the UK gender pay gap 1997–2015. The assessment is twofold: first comparing gender pay gaps within sectors and second through identifying the contribution of the concentration of women in the public sector to the overall gender pay gap. The long-term narrowing of…

Inequalities, Localities, Work and Labour Markets | Understanding the Gender Pay Gap within the UK Public Sector | March 2018

Journal Articles

The Dynamics of Disability and Work in Britain

This paper examines the dynamic relationship between work-limiting disability and labour market outcomes using longitudinal data created by matching individuals in the Local Labour Force Survey (2004–10). By applying event-study methods, changes in employment are traced through the onset of, and exit from, disability. These relationships are examined between subgroups of the population, including those…

Inequalities, Localities, Work and Labour Markets | Unlocking the potential of the Welsh Local Labour Force Survey: an investigation into labour market transitions in Wales | December 2016

Reports and Briefings

The Dynamic Effect of Disability on Work and Subjective Wellbeing in Australia

Using longitudinal data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey (2001-2013) we examine the relationship between the dynamics of worklimiting disability and employment, hours of work, earnings and life satisfaction. We employ two alternative classifications of the dynamic trajectories of disability and, in doing so, are able to explicitly consider the…

Inequalities, Localities, Work and Labour Markets | December 2015

Books and Book Chapters

Is the Public Sector Pay Advantage Explained by Differences in Work Quality?

The unadjusted public–private sector pay differential has attracted considerable political interest over many years. It has been used to justify changes to pay-setting arrangements and the imposition of pay restraint on the public sector. However, previous analyses have shown that a large part of the premium can be explained by differences in individual and employment…

Civil Society, Inequalities, Work and Labour Markets | Labour Market Implications of Changes in the Public Sector, Labour Market Implications of Changes in the Public Sector: Work Quality, Skills and Employment Survey, Skills and Employment Survey 2012 | August 2015

Video

Melanie Jones – The UK gender Pay gap 1998-2013: What is the role of the public sector?

A discussion of findings from the Labour Market Implications of Changes in the Public Sector project.

Inequalities | Labour Market Implications of Changes in the Public Sector, Labour Market Implications of Changes in the Public Sector: Inequality | February 2015

Reports and Briefings

Gender and Disability Disadvantage in the Public Sector, 1998-2012

There is a widespread perception that public sector offers an employment advantage for groups disadvantaged generally in the labour market. For example women are more than twice as likely to work in the public sector as men. The relative concentration of these protected groups within the public sector has increased over the past decade of…

Inequalities, Work and Labour Markets | Labour Market Implications of Changes in the Public Sector: Public Sector Pay | June 2014

Journal Articles

Age and Work-Related Health: Insights from the UK Labour Force Survey

Data from the UK Labour Force Survey (LFS) are used to examine two methodological issues in the analysis of the relationship between age and work-related health. First, the LFS is unusual in that it asks work-related health questions to those who are not currently employed. This facilitates a more representative analysis than that which is…

Health, Wellbeing & Social Care, Inequalities, Work and Labour Markets | Analysis of the Correlates of Self Reported Work Related Illness in the Labour Force Survey | February 2014

Reports and Briefings

Better quality work and better pay in the public sector?

The unadjusted public-private sector pay differential has attracted considerable political interest since the coalition government came to power in the UK in 2010. It has been used to justify changes to pay setting arrangements and the imposition of pay restraint on the public sector.However, previous analyses have shown that a large part of the premium…

Inequalities | Labour Market Implications of Changes in the Public Sector | January 2014

Journal Articles

Disability and Perceptions of Work and Management

Matched employee–employer data from the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey are used to examine differences in work-related perceptions between disabled and non-disabled employees. Even after accounting for differences in personal, job and workplace characteristics, disabled employees are found to hold more negative views on the treatment of workers by managers and, consistent with this, they…

Health, Wellbeing & Social Care, Inequalities, Work and Labour Markets | October 2013

Presentation

The Labour Market Implications of Changes in the Public Sector: Inequality and Work Quality

Major Objectives To examine the on going consequences of the deficit reduction programme on measures of labour market inequality To explore the nature of regional variation in public-private sector pay To consider the intrinsic quality of work in the public sector and private sectors of the economy The study is based on the secondary analysis…

Inequalities, Work and Labour Markets | Labour Market Implications of Changes in the Public Sector, Labour Market Implications of Changes in the Public Sector: Public Sector Pay | January 2013

Reports and Briefings

An Analysis of Subjective Wellbeing in Wales: Evidence from the Annual Population Survey

This report examines Annual Population Survey (APS) data containing new questions on Subjective Wellbeing (SWB). It focuses on comparisons between variations in SWB across countries of the UK and areas within Wales, as well as how SWB varies by demographic sub-groups within Wales. In particular, it identifies groups of individuals and areas within Wales where…

Data & Methods, Health, Wellbeing & Social Care | Welsh Government Evidence Symposia | October 2012

Journal Articles

The gender pay gap in Wales in 2011

In this paper we use the most recently available data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, April 2011, to examine the size of the gender pay gap in Wales. The paper looks at how the gender pay gap varies across industries and occupations in Wales and analyses how the gender pay gap has…

Inequalities, Work and Labour Markets | The Gender Pay Gap in Wales | August 2012

Reports and Briefings

WISERD & Welsh Government Evidence Symposium: Wellbeing in Wales

Attendees were welcomed and introduced themselves. It was explained that this event wasthe first of a series co-funded by the ESRC, to be held in collaboration with the WalesInstitute for Social and Economic Research, Data & Method (WISERD). The aim of theseevents will be to facilitate a regular and genuine dialogue between policy makers andpractitioners.

Data & Methods, Health, Wellbeing & Social Care | Welsh Government Evidence Symposia | June 2012

Journal Articles

Childhood Obesity in Wales

The human capital, or the health, education and skills of the next generation, will be fundamental in determining their labour market success and the future prosperity of the Welsh economy. While it is today’s children who will form this future generation economic analysis typically ignores this group until they reach working age. However, there is…

Health, Wellbeing & Social Care, Localities, Work and Labour Markets | April 2011

Reports and Briefings

An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in Wales

This report seeks to build upon the work of the National Equality Panel (NEP) and their report An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK (2010). The findings provide a Wales specific analysis or evidence base. The data considers both the overall level of economic inequalities and the inequality that exists both between and within…

Inequalities | An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in Wales | March 2011

Reports and Briefings

An Economic Analysis of the Implications of introducing a Living Wage in Wales

WAG’s policies on area regeneration, child poverty, public service provision, equality and workforce development all help Wales move closer towards the vision set out in the One Wales coalition agreement. If introduced, a Living Wage policy has the potential to make a further contribution towards many of these policy areas and the overall One Wales…

Inequalities, Work and Labour Markets | A Living Wage in Wales | September 2010

Reports and Briefings

Modeling and Explaining Regional Differences in Economic Prosperity within Wales

Enormous changes have taken place in the labour market during the last four decades. The number of women in the labour market has increased dramatically, with the greatest increase in labour market participation found amongst married women. The composition of the labour force changed over this period as the jobs in male-intensive industries declined and…

Inequalities | January 2010

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Reports and Briefings

An Investigation into Regional Differences in Child health and Cognitive Function

This report will utilise the information available in sweeps 1-3 (from birth to when the child is age 5) of the MCS, to explore the following research questions: Do children born in the Millennium in Wales have different health outcomes at birth to those born elsewhere in the UK? How do cross country differences in…

Health, Wellbeing & Social Care | January 2010

Blog

Disability and trade union membership in the UK

20th September 2023 | Melanie Jones

Disability is associated with significant labour market disadvantage internationally but despite arguments that trade unions act as a ‘sword of justice’ and protect the most disadvantaged employees, there has been relatively limited exploration of the relationship between trade unions and disability-related labour inequality. Our latest analysis provides new evidence for the UK with important insights…

Civil Society, Health, Wellbeing & Social Care, Inequalities, Work and Labour Markets | Identity and civic divides in the UK

News

Is there a disability voting gap in the UK?

6th September 2023 | Melanie Jones, Samuel Brown

A new paper by Samuel Brown at Swansea University and Melanie Jones at Cardiff University explores the extent to which the well-established ‘disability voting gap’ in the US, where disabled people are less likely to vote in elections relative to those who are not disabled, is evident in the UK. Such a voting gap has…

Civil Society, Inequalities | Identity and civic divides in the UK

News

The ongoing impact of gender pay gap transparency legislation

24th February 2023 | Ezgi Kaya, Melanie Jones

Since April 2017, UK employers with over 250 employees have been required to annually report their gender pay gap to the public. The introduction of pay transparency legislation is undoubtably one of the most significant policy developments aimed at tackling the gender pay gap worldwide. The original publication comprised 10,000 organisational gender pay gaps, attracting…

Inequalities, Work and Labour Markets | Understanding the Gender Pay Gap within the UK Public Sector

News

The UK gender pay gap: does firm size matter?

5th October 2022 | Melanie Jones

A new Global Labor Organization (GLO) discussion paper by Melanie Jones and GLO Fellow Ezgi Kaya has been published. The paper finds that large firms have smaller within-firm raw gender pay gaps and similar unexplained gender pay gaps when compared to smaller firms. Read more and download the paper on the GLO website.

Inequalities, Work and Labour Markets | Understanding the Gender Pay Gap within the UK Public Sector

Blog

COVID-19 and the labour market outcomes of disabled people in the UK

28th January 2022 | Melanie Jones

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated inequalities in society. In doing so, it has reinforced the importance of the government’s ‘levelling up’ policy agenda. In terms of protected characteristics, attention focused most immediately on ethnicity given the differences in health risk posed by COVID-19 and was subsequently concerned with gender as a result of…

Civil Society, Inequalities, Work and Labour Markets | Identity and civic divides in the UK

News

PrOPEL hub website launches

17th June 2020 | Alan Felstead, Melanie Jones, Rhys Davies

The Productivity of Outcomes of Workplace Practice, Engagement & Learning (PrOPEL) Hub launched its website this week, featuring contributions from WISERD staff. Professor Alan Felstead and Rhys Davies are part of the Productivity Outcomes of Workplace Practice, Engagement and Learning (PrOPEL) Hub, a £1.95 million project, which is supported by the Economic and Social Research…

Work and Labour Markets

Blog

Gender pay gaps in the UK: statutory reporting and wage transparency at the BBC

20th July 2018 | Melanie Jones, Victoria Wass

The gender pay gap has narrowed since it was first measured in the UK in the early 1970s, however since 2010 this trend has stalled and the gap currently remains at about 25%. With the recent implementation of new legislation requiring UK companies with more than 250 employees to publish their gender pay gaps this…

Civil Society, Inequalities, Work and Labour Markets | Understanding the Gender Pay Gap within the UK Public Sector

Blog

How does disability affect life satisfaction?

22nd May 2018 | Kostas Mavromaras, Melanie Jones, Wei Zhang

Disability, that is, the presence of a long-term limiting health condition, is associated with substantial economic disadvantage, as illustrated by the low rates of employment and high rates of poverty among disabled people. Yet becoming disabled during the life course, which is experienced by more than 80% of disabled people of working age, can potentially…

Civil Society, Health, Wellbeing & Social Care | Wellbeing, Deprivation & Social Cohesion

Blog

Tracking progress on the government’s disability and employment commitments

5th April 2018 | Melanie Jones, Victoria Wass

WISERD’s Professor Melanie Jones blogs for The Conversation with Professor Victoria Wass, Cardiff University. Disability affects the lives of millions of people in the UK. With about one in six working-age people currently reporting some kind of disability, around 70% are either working, looking for work or want to work. Good quality work is important…

Civil Society, Health, Wellbeing & Social Care, Inequalities, Work and Labour Markets | Wellbeing, Deprivation & Social Cohesion

Media

Professor Melanie Jones discusses disability and self-employment on BBC Radio 4

22nd February 2017 | Melanie Jones

Professor Melanie Jones participated in a panel discussion focused on disability and self-employment for BBC Radio 4’s Money Box Live.

Inequalities, Work and Labour Markets

News

Research shows disability has lasting negative effect on employment

21st February 2017 | Melanie Jones, Rhys Davies, Stephen Drinkwater

New research highlights the need for policy support to be directed towards helping those who develop a disability to retain work owing to the lasting negative effect on employment even when they recover. WISERD academics Professor Melanie Jones and Rhys Davies from Cardiff University and Professor Stephen Drinkwater, University of Roehampton, researched the impact of disability…

Civil Society | Equality, Diversity & Third Sector Welfare Provision, Wellbeing, Deprivation & Social Cohesion

News

ESRC Festival of Social Science 2016

14th November 2016 | Melanie Jones, Scott Orford, Victoria Wass

WISERD offered three events as part of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)’s week-long celebration of the social sciences and social science research. As with previous years’ events, the festival provided a variety of free activities across the UK. One such event was hosted by WISERD in Cardiff and facilitated by Dr. Scott Orford….

Civil Society, Health, Wellbeing & Social Care | Wellbeing, Deprivation & Social Cohesion, WISERD DataPortal

Media

‘Disability and labour market outcomes’ – IZA Of World Labor

1st April 2016 | Melanie Jones

Professor Melanie Jones’s article Disability and labour market outcomes is a featured article on IZA World of Labor’s website. A link to the article can be found here.

Health, Wellbeing & Social Care, Inequalities, Work and Labour Markets

Blog

Has the disability employment gap really declined?

20th October 2015 | Ben Baumberg, Melanie Jones, Victoria Wass

If you keep track of key measures of disability equality in the UK, you’ll know that the gap in employment rates between disabled and non-disabled working-age people has gone down over the past fifteen years. And you’d be in good company. Many experts have flagged this trend: Dame Carol Black in her influential 2008 Review, DWP indicators…

Health, Wellbeing & Social Care, Inequalities, Work and Labour Markets | Labour Market Implications of Changes in the Public Sector

News

WISERD Report Published by Welsh Government

11th December 2012 | Catherine Robinson, David Blackaby, Mamata Parhi, Melanie Jones, Philip Murphy, Stephen Drinkwater

A report written by academic staff at WISERD Swansea, entitled ‘An analysis of subjective wellbeing in Wales: Evidence from the Annual Population Survey’, was published by the Welsh Government on 31st October 2012. This report examines Annual Population Survey (APS) data containing new questions on Subjective Wellbeing (SWB). It focuses on comparisons between variations in SWB across…

Data & Methods, Health, Wellbeing & Social Care, Inequalities

News

WISERD Researchers Involved in Projects Funded by Economic Research Grants

11th July 2011 | Catherine Robinson, Melanie Jones, Rhys Davies, Stephen Drinkwater

The Welsh Government has announced that it will be supporting four research studies into the economy of Wales by awarding them with Economic Research Grants. These grants have been designed to help develop research capacity and widen knowledge of the economy in Wales by encouraging innovative, smaller-scale economic research. Researchers at WISERD will be involved…

Work and Labour Markets | Unlocking the potential of the Welsh Local Labour Force Survey: an investigation into labour market transitions in Wales

News

An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in Wales Report Launched

17th June 2011 | Catherine Robinson, Chris Taylor, Mamata Parhi, Melanie Jones, Rhys Davies, Stephen Drinkwater

On the 12th May 2011 a report entitled An Anatomy of Inequality in Wales, written by WISERD researchers for the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), was launched in Cardiff. The launch of the report, which has been described as ‘landmark’, had substantial coverage from a number of Welsh media outlets, including the BBC and…

Inequalities, Work and Labour Markets | An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in Wales

Cardiff Lunchtime Seminar

Disability and Trade Union Membership in the UK

24th May 2022

Presented by Melanie Jones In this session I will present early findings from analysis of data from two national surveys, the Quarterly Labour Force Survey and the Workplace Employment Relations Survey, exploring the disability gap in union membership in the UK. Disabled employees are found to be 4 percentage points (16%) more likely to be…

Workshop

Department of Work and Pensions ARI workshop

23rd March 2021

During March, the Wales Institute for Social and Economic Research and Data (WISERD) is hosting two workshops on behalf of the Department and Work and Pensions (DWP). The workshops form part of DWPs wider engagement strategy with UK universities and provide an opportunity for DWP analysts to engage with the research community and to identify…

Conference

Closing Disability Gaps at Work Conference

13th December 2016 | Cardiff

Organised by the Cardiff University Research into Employment and Disability group, this event provides a unique opportunity to learn about the latest research into disability and employment, and to network with researchers, policy makers and academics to influence real change to long term Government policy.

Cardiff Lunchtime Seminar

Disabled employees experience of the recession: evidence from the 2011 British Workplace Employment Relations Survey

28th June 2016 | Cardiff

This event is part of the WISERD Cardiff lunchtime seminar series which focuses on research currently being undertaken by WISERD researchers. Presented by: Melanie Jones

Training

Exploiting the Potential of Longitudinal Research Resources for Wales

7th May 2013 | Cardiff

This event showcased the possibilities in terms of longitudinal research on policy relevant themes, with the aim of developing longitudinal research capacity within Wales. Programme: 12.00 Lunch 12.50 Welcome & Introduction (Prof. Ian Rees Jones, WISERD, Cardiff University) 13.00 Welsh overview of the England and Wales Longitudinal Study (Dr Nicola Shelton, CeLSIUS, UCL) 13.20 Presentations…

Workshop

Understanding Wales: Opportunities for Secondary Data Analysis

16th January 2012 | Cardiff

Presented by: Steve Marshall of Welsh Government, Melanie Jones, Stephen Drinkwater and Martin Heaven of Swansea University, Scott Orford, Chris Taylor, Alan Felstead and Rhys Davies of Cardiff University. The Welsh Government makes a number of investments in survey and administrative data sources. In terms of survey sources, the Welsh Government is responsible for…

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