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.
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.
This proposal sets out an intensive and ambitious suite of work which responds rapidly to the current crisis posed by Covid19 and its social and economic impact on racial and ethnic minorities, as well as the opportuniti...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Manchester
The project explores racial and ethnic inequality in the UK, including economic disparities and barriers to entry and progression in the labor market for ethnic minorities.