employment

Researchers have built the single largest dataset of employment laws – spanning more than 100 countries across much of post-war history – to look at...

The handwritten inventories had lain largely untouched for centuries. Sand used to dry the ink still lay between the pages. Written neatly inside were...

While self-employment may not be the labour market remedy some want to believe, new research is revealing its global prevalence and intergenerational...

Analysis of EU survey data suggests millions in UK may suffer anxiety as a result of unpredictable management-imposed flexible working hours. Research...

In 2003, researchers embarked on a project to piece together a picture of changes in British working life over the course of 600 years. The emerging...

A new online resource, which summarises the implications of climate change for specific sectors of the economy, has been produced and made freely...

New report shows that zero-hours contracts are only one of a wide number of flexible employment practices that are abused by managers - leading to...

A five-year project to publish the collected works of pioneering British economist John Maynard Keynes, is today unveiled by Cambridge University...

The largest multidisciplinary research network of its kind in the UK is investigating why gender equality is still a pressing social issue in the 21st...