This encompasses priorities around:
- supporting the economy and ensuring the UK’s long-term prosperity by delivering the Plan for Jobs
- ensuring that it pays to work, and supporting in-work progression
- supporting those facing barriers to work to reach their potential in the labour market via Sector-based Work Academy Programmes (SWAPs), In-Work Progression, support for older Jobseekers and the Youth Offer
Send correspondence and further questions to evidence.strategyteam@dwp.gov.uk.
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
The UK is increasingly ethnically diverse. There have been significant improvements in the economic and educational success of some ethnic minorities in recent years, but not all have shared in this success, and nor has ...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: Institute for Fiscal Studies
The project investigates ethnic economic inequalities in the UK, their causes, and potential solutions, which directly addresses the question.
To unlock the full potential of the UK economy, structural inequalities within the UK labour market must be addressed. To do this, we must understand how structural inequalities shape the skills that workers within the l...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: The Alan Turing Institute
The project specifically focuses on measuring inequality-driven skills gaps in the UK labor market, which directly relates to understanding the barriers to entry and progression for ethnic minorities.
Migration flows and the share of the foreign-born population have increased substantially in recent decades in several advanced economies, including the UK. The increasing diversity of the population has brought the ques...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
The project explores the labour market performance of immigrant employees, which partially addresses the question as it pertains to a subset of ethnic minorities.