Publications on Employment and Social Policy

2023

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  Inzichten in de effectiviteit van preventieve instrumenten in de strijd tegen georganiseerde criminaliteit: [Insights into the effectiveness of preventive instruments tackling organised crime]

  Mafalda Pardal, Lana Eekelschot, Stijn Hoorens, Emma Louise Blondes

  Organised crime poses a threat to the security of our societies and the integrity of public administration. This study responds to a call from the Research and Documentation Centre (Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek- en Documentatiecentrum, WODC) to gather insights into the effectiveness of preventative instruments in the field of organised crime, drawing on a review of the literature and expert interviews.

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  Spotlight 2022–2023

  The events of 2022 underscore the continuous nature of change and the constant need for policy informed by evidence. Spotlight 2022-2023 highlights selected projects that we undertook in our 30th anniversary year to address some of today's most pressing policy issues.

2022

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  An Assessment of the Existing Landscape of Longitudinal Data Collection Related to Gambling

  Silvia Galimberti, Rachel Hesketh, Emma Disley

  This study assesses the landscape of longitudinal data collection on gambling in the UK. This includes identifying data sources, scoping opportunities to add questions on gambling to existing studies and assessing the feasibility and cost of setting up a new longitudinal study on gambling.

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  Juggling Work and Childcare During COVID-19: How EU Member States Supported Working Families in 2020

  Natalie Picken, Katrin Feyerabend, Linda Kunertova, Silvia Galimberti, Elena Rosa Brown, Lillian Flemons, Emily Ryen Gloinson, Giulia Lanfredi, Konstantina Rentzou

  This report outlines existing evidence about the experiences of working parents and families in Europe during the COVID-19 outbreaks in 2020 and reviews the policies set out by 10 selected EU member states in response to these challenges.

2021

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  Evaluation of IPS Grow: Final report

  Natalie Picken, Joanna Hofman, Lucy Gilder, Emily Ryen Gloinson, Tom Ling

  IPS supports people with serious mental illness into employment. IPS Grow supports IPS services. We use a theory-based approach and a logic model to examine IPS Grow's impact on funded IPS services. The study aimed to examine the uptake of support from IPS Grow by IPS services, explore the perceptions of IPS Grow by key audiences, and examine the impact that different elements of support from IPS Grow had on services.

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  Mapping the Risk of Serious and Organised Crime Infiltrating Legitimate Businesses: Final Report

  Shann Hulme, Emma Disley, Emma Louise Blondes

  This report examines the infiltration of organized crime into legitimate European businesses, and its involvement in various illegal markets, including drugs and human trafficking.

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  Mapping the Risk of Serious and Organised Crime Infiltrating Legitimate Businesses: Technical Annexes

  Shann Hulme, Emma Disley, Emma Louise Blondes

  This annex provides a description of the cross-cutting data-collection activities that were undertaken to address the research questions and the major outputs of the study.

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  Rapid Prioritisation of Topics for Rapid Evaluation: The Case of Innovations in Adult Social Care and Social Work

  Katherine Cowan, Naomi Fulop, Amelia Harshfield, Pei Li Ng, Antiopi Ntouva, Manbinder Sidhu, Jon Sussex, Sonila M. Tomini, Holly Walton

  This paper aims to describe and discuss a process of rapidly identifying and prioritising a shortlist of innovations for rapid evaluation applied in the field of adult social care and social work.

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  Using social media data to 'nowcast' international migration around the globe

  Andreas Culora, Emma Thomas, Eliane Dufresne, Matthew Cefalu, Clement Fays, Stijn Hoorens

  The aim of this study was to develop a tool to 'nowcast' migrant stocks by using real-time data from the Facebook Marketing Application Programming Interface (API) and official migration data from EU member states and states in the United States. The tool produces real-time nowcasts which can serve as an early-warning system for decision-makers to anticipate 'shock events' and rapid migration trends, and make evidence-based policy decisions.

2020

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  Measuring Public Preferences Between Health and Social Care Funding Options

  Hui Lu, Peter Burge, Jon Sussex

  Additional funding will be needed to meet the growing demand for health and social care in the UK. What is the most acceptable way to raise it? Options range from taxation to mandatory insurance, voluntary insurance and user charges. We sought to analyse the preferences of the UK general public.

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  Developments in Child and Family Policy in the EU in 2019: European Platform for Investing in Children

  Michaela Bruckmayer, Natalie Picken, Barbara Janta

  This third annual trend report outlines and summarises 2019 policy developments in the area of child and family policy in the 27 EU Member States and the UK.

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  Healthcare Utilization Among Migrants to the UK: Cross-Sectional Analysis of Two National Surveys

  Catherine L. Saunders, Adam Steventon, Barbara Janta, Mai Stafford, Carol Sinnott, Lucinda Allen, Sarah R. Deeny

  Researchers explored health service utilization among migrants to the UK, adjusting for age, sex, long-term health conditions and time since moving to the UK. The study found that healthcare use was lower among migrants than the UK-born population.

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  How small businesses are coping with the impact of COVID-19: Results from a survey in Turkey and the Middle East

  Stijn Hoorens, Lucy Hocking, Clement Fays

  SPARK, an NGO supporting young people's access to education and employment, commissioned RAND Europe to conduct a survey to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Middle East and Turkey. It also explored what support SMEs need to survive the pandemic.

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  Transforming social care provision: first steps towards sustained innovation

  Tom Ling, Evangelos Gkousis, Jon Sussex

  The demand for adult social care in the UK is rising and will continue to rise. But the supply of such care is struggling to keep up. Innovation in social care can enable more and better care to be delivered more cost-effectively. The main focus of this Perspective is on ideas to stimulate and sustain innovation in social care; and ideas for research to bring closer a system of sustainable social care innovation.

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  Innovations in Adult Social Care and Social Work Report

  Holly Walton, Amelia Harshfield, Sonila M. Tomini, Pei Li Ng, Katherine Cowan, Jon Sussex, Naomi Fulop

  Researchers identified and prioritised a shortlist of top priority innovations to evaluate in adult social care and social work.

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  Workplace Health: Long-Term Sickness Absence and Capability to Work

  Michael Whitmore

  Researchers provided evidence on reducing sickness absence in the workplace to support National Institute for Health and Care Guidance (NICE) guidelines on how to help people return to work after long-term sickness absence.

2019

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  How frequent night-time bathroom visits can negatively impact sleep, well-being and productivity: Examining the associations between nocturia, well-being and economic outcomes in a working-age population

  Marco Hafner, Jack Pollard, Wendy M. Troxel, Erez Yerushalmi, Clement Fays, Michael Whitmore, Christian Van Stolk

  Nocturia is a urinary tract condition causing numerous night-time bathroom visits. This study is one of the first to comprehensively examine of the associations between nocturia and a range of health, wellbeing, demographic and economic variables in a working-age population. Using a wide range of data points, it quantifies nocturia's impact on sleep, wellbeing and productivity as well as costs to the economies of the six countries studied.

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  Measuring Labour Mobility and Migration Using Big Data: Exploring the Potential of Social-Media Data for Measuring EU Mobility Flows and Stocks of EU Movers

  Cloé Gendronneau, Arkadiusz Wisniowski, Dilek Yildiz, Emilio Zagheni, Lee Florio, Yuan Hsiao, Martin Stepanek, Ingmar Weber, Guy Abel, Stijn Hoorens

  Researchers investigated the use of social media data to offer real-time estimates that will serve as early warnings about changes in EU mobility. The team successfully used the data to apply a working model for measuring stocks of EU migrants.

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  Options for funding the NHS and social care in the UK: How the UK general public would prefer extra funds to be raised

  Jon Sussex, Peter Burge, Hui Lu, Josephine Exley, Suzanne King, Jonathan Cylus, Daniel Roland, Ellen Nolte, Jennie Corbett, Karen Jones, et al.

  What is the publicly preferred way to raise additional funds needed to meet growing demand for health and social care. Options are taxation, insurance, or user charges. We analyse the preferences of the UK general public using a choice experiment.

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  Public Acceptability of Health and Social Care Funding Options: Funding Options for the NHS and Social Care in the UK

  Jon Sussex, Peter Burge, Hui Lu, Josephine Exley, Suzanne King

  An assessment of how popular different funding approaches for the NHS and social care are among the general public, as part of a wider study on feasible options for the future funding of health and social care in the UK.

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  Understanding Researcher Mobility

  Susan Guthrie, Catherine A. Lichten, Emma Harte, Sarah Parks, Steven Wooding

  This research brief sets out the results from a 2017 survey of researchers in the UK and a review of the literature around patterns, drivers and barriers, and benefits and consequences of international mobility for researchers.

2018

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  Changes in Child and Family Policies in the EU28 in 2017: European Platform for Investing in Children: Annual Thematic Report

  Barbara Janta, Eleftheria Iakovidou, Milda Butkute

  This annual thematic report of the European Platform for Investing in Children provides a snapshot of recent changes and new developments in the area of child and family policies across the EU in 2017.

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  Education for Unaccompanied Migrant Children in Europe: Ensuring Continued Access to Education Through National and School-Level Approaches

  Milda Butkute, Barbara Janta

  This policy memo provides a brief overview of national and school-level approaches to the inclusion of unaccompanied migrant children in formal education systems across EU countries.

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  Identifying Options for Funding the NHS and Social Care in the UK: International Evidence

  Jonathan Cylus, Daniel Roland, Ellen Nolte, Jennie Corbett, Karen Jones, Julien Forder, Jon Sussex

  As part of a larger project identifying feasible options for the future funding of health & social care in the UK, this paper explores how 16 high-income countries have implemented changes to their funding systems to better meet the challenges ahead.

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  International mobility is important for the UK and UK researchers

  Susan Guthrie, Catherine A. Lichten, Jennie Corbett, Steven Wooding

  This infographic sets out the existing evidence from the literature around the importance of the international mobility of researchers to the UK and UK-based researchers.

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