SES 2012 & Training in Recession

Skills and Employment Survey (SES) 2012

ESRC is co-funding a Skills and Employment Survey (SES) with the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) - to be carried out across Britain in 2012 – of people aged 20-65 in paid employment. The survey focuses upon the work that people do, and how working life has changed over time. The 2012 survey builds upon previous ESRC-funded studies and continues a series that began in 1986. The survey will provide a link between the previous skills-focused and employment-focused surveys in the series. It is anticipated that approximately 3,170 respondents will take part in the 2012 survey.  The project is being led by Professor Alan Felstead (Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University), who is also Visiting Professor at the LLAKES Centre, Institute of Education, London, which is co-hosting the project.  Other members of the research team are: Professor Francis Green (LLAKES, Institute of Education, London); Professor Duncan Gallie (Nuffield College, Oxford); and Hande Inanc (Nuffield College, Oxford).

Details of the project can be found at www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/ses2012

Training in Recession

This project is funded under the ESRC/UKCES Strategic Partnership and is affiliated to the ESRC’s Centre for Learning and Life Chances in Knowledge Economies and Societies (LLAKES), Institute of Education, University of London.  The project aims to analyze, compare and explain the impact of the 2008-09 recession on training activity in the UK.  The project adopts a mixed method approach which includes: reviewing existing published academic and policy evidence; comparing the results from Labour Force Surveys carried out over the last twenty years; and carrying out telephone interviews with employers on two occasions – towards the end of the recession and during the recovery. The project team comprises Alan Felstead, Nick Jewson (both of Cardiff University) and Francis Green (LLAKES, Institute of Education, University of London).

 

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