For almost 40 years, IER has a strong and demonstrable record of success of impact with policy and practitioner as well as academic communities.

Our research underpins national and international policy and practice on, for example, good/decent work, apprenticeships, career guidance and labour market transitions for the armed forces community. It also provides employment projections and occupational classifications for government that informs policy and practice. Examples of this impact are presented below.

• Providing UK employment forecastsForecasting
• Creating a classification of graduate jobs Graduate labour market
• Developing the UK’s occupational classification Standard Occupational Classification (SOC)
• Helping design the CIPD Working Lives survey Job quality survey
• Helping employers understand the costs of apprenticeships Apprenticeships
• Supporting local skills strategies Industrial and skills strategies
• Improving workplace skill use in regional economies post-Covid Skill use in regional economies
• Helping career transitions from the armed forces Armed Forces: Career transitions
• Tracking disadvantaged youth employment Youth employment programme evaluation
• Creating open access occupational coding software Occupational coding software
• Creating measures of job quality for the UK Job quality measure
• Supporting Oxfam’s push for decent work Decent work
• Unpacking Brexit’s impact on UK employment Brexit briefings on employment
• Helping redesign the European Company Survey Survey development support (EU)
• Helping the Barbados Government analyse its labour marketBespoke labour market analysis tools
• Addressing child labour in India Child labour
• Helping the CITB understand migration in the construction industry Migration in the construction industry
• Reshaping the training provision for educational psychologistsEducational psychologists
• Unpacking employment disadvantage amongst teachersTeachers: Employment and pay
• Informing the policy debate on Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences graduates’ skills and employmentOccupations and skills
• Helping improve graduate skill use in firmsBusiness engagement
• Influencing policy on adult skills and social mobilityAdult skills and social mobility
• Helping improve mental health at workMental health at work
• Measuring good work - REF impact studyMeasuring good work - REF impact study
• Tackling gender inequality in employment - REF impact case studyTackling gender inequality in employment - REF case study