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Written evidence submitted by the Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study, University of Essex (YEET0046) [House of Commons. Work and Pensions Committee. Youth employment, education and training inquiry]

Parliamentary Paper - March 19, 2026

Variation in employment inequality between workers with vocational and general education over the career

Viktor Decker

Journal Article - March 15, 2026

Labor outcomes after employer-provided training: evidence from the Understanding Society survey

Akbar Ullah

Journal Article - April 1, 2025

Does training beget training over the life course? Cumulative advantage in work-related non-formal training participation in Germany and the UK

Journal Article - June 1, 2024

The gendered impact of parenthood on job-related training participation in Germany and the United Kingdom

Journal Article - May 3, 2024

Training and life satisfaction: a disrupted pathway to better work

Journal Article - August 15, 2023

Adult lifetime skills: a literature review

Parliamentary Paper, Social Research Series - April 15, 2023

Train in vain? Skills, tasks, and training in the UK labour market

Report - December 15, 2022

Not participating in education, employment or training (NEET): hope to mitigate new social risks in the UK?

Journal Article - October 15, 2022

“Are you in the right job?” Human capital mismatch in the UK

Yannis Galanakis

Research Paper, GLO Discussion Papers, 976 - November 15, 2021

Understanding economic inactivity and NEET status among young women in the UK and France

Journal Article - November 11, 2021

Learning ladders: the role of adult training in supporting progression from low pay

Report - November 15, 2020

(Adult) education, education, education: how adult education can improve the life chances of those on low incomes

Report - November 15, 2020

Covid unemployed need big new training package

Media - November 12, 2020

Adult education is vital to restore the post-Covid economy, so why do we neglect it?

Media - November 12, 2020

Can Active Labour Market Programmes emulate the mental health benefits of regular paid employment? Longitudinal evidence from the United Kingdom

Journal Article - October 10, 2020

Rethinking adult training and retraining

Kathleen Henehan

Book Chapter, Reforms for a ‘revolutionary’ post-16 white paper - September 15, 2020

Reforms for a ‘revolutionary’ post-16 white paper

Report - September 15, 2020

Lower-qualified workless adults are half as likely to be in education or training than their higher-qualified counterparts

Kathleen Henehan

Media - August 18, 2020

Short courses in social care and ‘green jobs’ likely to help workers move out of coronavirus-hit sectors, though UK ill-prepared to deliver large-scale retraining programmes

Kathleen Henehan

Media - August 18, 2020

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