World of work
Over the average person’s lifetime in the UK, 84,000 hours will be spent at work. ADR UK aims to link administrative data to better understand this aspect of our lives.
Understanding this huge component of our lives can provide a window into the day-to-day reality of many and shed light on the underlying dynamics that influence important economic forces, such as the job market.
ADR UK is working with the University of the West of England on the Wage and Employment Dynamics (WED) data linkage project which sits within this theme. WED aims to provide rich and novel insights into the dynamics of earnings and employment in Great Britain. This project will bring together anonymised data from the Annual Survey of House and Earnings (ASHE), Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR), and the 2011 Census to better understand and improve current policy challenges, such as in-work poverty, the UK Gender Pay Gap, and the impact of the National Minimum Wage. The creation of this newly linked dataset will bypass limitations created by solely analysing survey data, or the datasets individually, thereby enabling researchers to broaden their scope and understanding of the labour market in Britain.
As part of the ‘Poverty and Fair Work’ programme, ADR Scotland is working to enable a better understanding of the functioning of the Scottish labour market and its interactions with the combined Scottish and UK welfare benefit systems. It also hopes to support the development of the Scottish Child Poverty Measurement Framework and policies to reduce child poverty, and to explore the relationship between employment and health. This stream of work will assess specific areas of work, social security and health outcomes in Scotland, informing Scottish policy developments (such as the Fairer Scotland Fund, the Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan, and the Single Gateway Scottish Health and Work Service), as well as addressing areas identified as analytical priorities by the DWP.
ADR Northern Ireland is linking data to generate novel insights into the health and educational attainment of Northern Irish farmers, as well as factors associated with economic inactivity in the country in general; whilst ADR Wales is working to link data which will enable deeper investigation of the progression from post-statutory school age education, as well as pathways into employment in Wales.
More in-depth information about the individual data linkage and research projects being undertaken within this theme can be explored below.
World of work projects
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ADR UK PhD studentships cohort
24 October 2023
ADR UK is supporting 22 PhD studentships hosted by supervisors at Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Doctoral Training Partnerships (DTPs) across the UK. These PhD studentships will use ADR UK’s new linked flagship datasets to answer policy-relevant research questions.
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ADR Wales themed projects: Social Justice
22 September 2023
This ADR Wales research agenda will cover inequalities in health outcomes, treatment, accessibility to services, opportunities, and education for the population of Wales. It will utilise linked anonymised, individual-level, population-scale data that is routinely collected. This includes demographic, health, environmental, administrative and social data.
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ADR Wales themed projects: Skills and Employability
22 September 2023
This innovative programme will continue to work with education partners in Wales to better understand the barriers individuals face in finding meaningful work and accessing the skills and training needed to compete. The programme will address questions of low skills levels in Wales, and the progression from education and training to meaningful jobs against a backdrop of Brexit and the pandemic.
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World of work news
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Green jobs in England and Wales
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The Administrative Data | Agricultural Research Collection project powers on
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Understanding the link between geographical inequalities, geographical mobility, and social mobility
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Migration research: What can we learn from linked administrative data?
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New Longitudinal Education Outcomes data made available for public good research
Publications
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Data Insight: Exporting, importing and Northern Ireland firm performance: Which pathway to internationalisation?
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Differences between estimates of Welsh language ability in Census 2021 and household surveys
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Data Insight: Characteristics of exporting firms in Northern Ireland
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Data Insight: Impact of technology investment on Northern Ireland's economy
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Data Insight: Productivity differences in Northern Ireland