This report presents findings from the Employer Perspectives Survey which involved 1,114 interviews with senior managers in establishments where individuals from the 2001 Skills Survey were employed. The aim of the Employer Perspectives Survey was to investigate the relationship between the...

Hourly productivity levels in the UK still remain behind those in some competitor countries. The governmentdevotes much policy attention to enhancing productivity and continues to emphasise its five drivers—investment,innovation, skills, enterprise, and competition. This article argues that it...

The 1980s were a period of profound economic change in the UK. The consensus politics of the post-Second World War period disintegrated in the face of mounting disillusionment with the UK's economic record. It gave way to a radical style of politics that firmly rejected intervention by the state...