IER News & blogs
Tracking Graduates and their Mobility: Comparing Experiences in the International Framework
In 2013-16, the European Commission, concerned by regional skills gaps, increasing graduate geographical mobility across national boundaries and incompatibilities in the administrative data resources and graduate tracking measures in member countries, launched the Eurograduate Feasibility study, to explore how sustainable monitoring of mobility among Europe's higher education graduates could be established.
Good Work and Industry 5.0 presentations
In November, Director of IER, Chris Warhurst presented at a string of events on:
- ‘Mapping the Good Work policy terrain’ to the Department of Business & Trade;
- ‘Good Work and Productivity’ to a Productivity Institute event held at Warwick Business School as part of the Productivity Week; and
- ‘Industry 5.0’ at the Digital Manufacturing Conference held in Cambridge.
Leveraging procurement to foster employment equality
The ESRC funded Buying Social Justice through Procurement project of which Dr E.K. Sarter is a Co-Investigator published its final report. Based on mixed-method research, the report sheds light on the policy framework and the inclusion of equality objectives in public procurement in England, Scotland and Wales and identifies barriers to and enablers of socially responsible public procurement.
IER welcomes Dr Sangwoo Lee
Sangwoo joined IER in October. An economist and educationalist by background Sangwoo uses quantitative methods to understand issues in higher education and the labour market mainly in developed countries.
His research interests include inequalities in higher education and the labour market, with a particular focus on the role of higher education in intergenerational mobility and the importance of job quality in general wellbeing and as graduates’ labour market outcomes. He previously worked at the University of Cambridge and UCL Institute of Education.
From Automation to Adaptation: Jobs at Risk of Exposure to AI in the UK - Blog by Jeisson Cardenas-Rubio and Gianni Anelli-Lopez
Artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing at pace. In its wake the world of work is being transformed. With the emergence of an AI application such as Chat-GPT, jobs previously thought immune to automation now appear to be at risk. Or are they?
Read more in the blog published on the LMI website.