Wages and benefits
Research Topic
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Research problems linked to this topic
- What factors influence labour market choices and how do they vary for different groups, parts of the workforce, including at a sub-national level? This includes the role of non-pay factors such as workload, wellbeing and flexible working and their relative importance .
- Which interventions are most effective at recruiting and retaining good teachers within a constrained funding envelope - particularly in shortage subjects such as Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics and Modern Foreign Languages, and in the most challenging schools/areas?
- What are the most effective non-pay related solutions for addressing FE workforce shortages? What are the potential impacts of improved pay and financial incentives compared to non-pay solutions in tackling barriers?
- How do wages of creative Higher Education graduates progress over time and what factors determine short and long-term wages? For example what factors can explain why arts and design graduates have some of the lowest earnings one and five years after graduation?
- Wages: What would be the impact of AI deployment at work on wages and costs for employees and employers?
- • Are there barriers affecting the availability of specialists (including for example, subject specialist teachers)? How might they be addressed?
- • What are the drivers, barriers, costs, and benefits of movements across our workforces?
- • What influence do practices such as professional supervision/reflective practice have on staff retention and how widespread are these practices?
- Detailed company data on workforce composition and compensation.
- What are the most cost-effective ways to recruit and retain our workforces? How does this vary across the education and children’s social care workforces (including relevant local authority staff such as educational psychologists), and at all stages of their careers (including recruitment into initial teacher training courses and late career recruitment)?
- • What development opportunities are available for our workforces, how well do they meet our needs, and how attractive and accessible are they? Given the importance of professional development to retention, what are the best ways to ensure there are sufficient attractive and accessible development opportunities which engage the right people?
- How do economic cycles affect employment, unemployment, economic activity and wages? How do any effects vary for different groups?
- What is the effect on wages, employment and survival on UK exporters versus non exporters?
- • What underpins and drives workforce performance across our sectors, including teaching quality, quality of leadership and quality of delivery by specialist staff?
- How do employers view pension obligations within overall costs and benefits packages or legal obligations? What evidence is there of employer cost mitigation through, for example, wage suppression?