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Senior Researcher
Email: psissons@theworkfoundation.com
Telephone: 020 7976 3621
Dr Paul Sissons joined The Work Foundation from the Institute for Employment Studies where he worked as a Research Fellow on a range of public policy evaluations. He has also worked at the University of Dundee on research into sickness benefit trends and housing market change. Paul holds a PhD from University College, London where his thesis was a comparative study of the longer-term impacts of past regional de-industrialisation in the UK and the USA.
Paul’s research interests and experience are particularly around long-term unemployment and worklessness; labour market disadvantage; integrating employment and skills policy; and the impact of welfare to work reforms. Paul is leading our work on labour market polarisation for the bottom ten million programme.
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Inequality and Employment Polarisation in British cities Wage inequality and employment polarisation – where employment is increasingly divided into high- and low-skilled jobs – are seen as important social problems, which a number of cities have attempted to address at a local level. This study investigates the geography of wage inequality and employment polarisation in British cities, their determinants and implications.
Dr Neil Lee, Dr Paul Sissons and Katy Jones 07 May 2013
Initial Findings: Wage inequality and employment polarisation in British cities
Dr Neil Lee, Dr Paul Sissons and Katy Jones 06 May 2013
Budget 2013: An assessment from The Work Foundation A reaction from our experts on different aspects of the 2013 Budget.
Ian Brinkley, Paul Sissons, Hiba Sameen, Neil Lee, Charles Levy, Prateek Sureka and Stephen Bevan 22 March 2013
A Budget for jobs? A more in-depth look at the new Employment Allowance announced in the Budget.
Paul Sissons 20 March 2013
Supply and demand for skills – the launch of the OECD Skills Strategy The OECD is today (21 May) publishing its Skills Strategy following a UK launch last week at The Work Foundation. We welcome the analysis, in particular because of its attention to the need for both supply side and demand side measures.
Paul Sissons and Nye Cominetti 21 May 2012
A NEET solution? Yesterday Nick Clegg announced further details of the NEET prevention strand of the Youth Contract. The £126 million scheme, which will be in England only, will focus on those 16 and 17 year olds with poor qualifications (without a GCSE at grade C or above) who are outside education, employment and training.
Dr Paul Sissons 22 February 2012
The youth unemployment problem The events of the past few days in London and other cities has brought (a small minority of) the nation’s young people into sharp focus. The reasons for the riots are multifaceted and complex and they are the subject of fervent debate among media commentators and academics. Two of the reasons offered relate to the labour market – increasing income inequality and rising youth unemployment. It is the second of these I want to comment briefly on.
Dr Paul Sissons 10 August 2011
The shrinking-middle and Good Work The Work Foundation’s mission is all about Good Work. But economic, technological and social change continues to transform the types of jobs we do. These changes in the labour market can influence both our earnings and our ability to progress in work.
Dr Paul Sissons 15 July 2011