Paper presented at an 'Expert Meeting on Working Time and Flexibility', European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound), Dublin.

Presentation at Work, Pensions and Labour Economics Study Group Annual Conference, University of Sheffield.

Presented as part of Westminster Economics Forum seminar series on Measurement.

The Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) has traditionally included both a cross-section survey and a two-wave panel survey. The cross-sectional survey provides a snapshot of employment relations within a representative sample of the population of workplaces in existence at the time. The...

In spite of legislation aimed at securing equal pay and equal employment opportunities for men and women, the gender pay gap has persisted into the twenty-first century. This study sought to clarify the causes of the gender pay gap and to assess their relative importance, so that the driving...

In light of the increased relative demand for skilled labour associated with Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), we combine survey data for UK enterprises in 1999 with post-survey financial data for the same enterprises to assess the impact of ICT skill shortages on firms'...

The decline in trade union influence over the past two decades raises the question of whether pay levels in lower-skilled jobs now lie outside the unions' sphere of influence, as tacitly acknowledged by their acceptance and later endorsement of the principle of the statutory minimum wage. This...

The 2009 Survey of Employers' Attitudes and Likely Reactions to the Workplace Pension Reforms (EAS 2009) was a nationally representative telephone survey of 2,550 private sector employers operating in Britain. Its purpose was to assess the extent of awareness of the forthcoming pension reforms...

This report was commissioned by Acas to assist them in the development of structured employee attitude surveys. The project identified priority question areas for Acas surveys and, through reference to existing social surveys, created a Ôquestion bank' of field-tested questions. Advice was...