Welfare and Employment

Completed research projects
Area variations in the take-up of means-tested benefits/tax credits
Carers and asset management for older people
Carers' aspirations and decisions around work and retirement
Child poverty in large families
Child support international comparisons
Claimants' experiences of changes in circumstances and the effect of recovering overpayments
Conversation analysis study of work-focused interviews
Deprivation and variations in teenage conceptions and abortions in England
Disability Research Partnership:
- Evaluation of the WORKSTEP programme
- Desirable Outcomes from WORKSTEP: User and Provider Views
- What works in raising the employment rates of disabled people: A UK research review
Employers’ recruitment decisions: small and medium sized enterprises
Employment Advisers in GP Surgeries pilot
Financial consequences of the death of a partner
Fit for Work services pilots - evaluation
Focused study of GP involvement with Fit for Work Services
Health, work and well-being co-ordinators and Challenge Fund
Housing benefit payment methods: claimant perspectives
How to measure extreme poverty in the European Union
Incapacity benefit pilot - Pathways to Work
International comparative paper on policies relating to child well-being
Impact of Disability Living Allowance and Attendance Allowance
Job Retention and Rehabilitation Pilot
Local index of child well-being
Lone parents, childcare and work
Managing mental health and employment
Minimum income standard for Britain
New Deal for Disabled People National Extension
Provider-led Pathways - early implementation study
Qualitative longitudinal study of users' experiences of Fit for Work services
Qualitative study of the Condition Management Programme under Provider-led Pathways to Work
Review of the data and literature on employment of disabled people in the public sector
Routes onto incapacity benefits
Self-employed: working and saving for retirement
Self-employment and Universal Credit
Single working age benefit qualitative research
Trends in disability benefits recipiency rates
Understanding social exclusion across the lifecourse: Youth and young adulthood
Use of the Social Fund among families with children
Verbatim quotations in applied social research
Volunteering for employment skills
Well-being of children in the UK
Welfare policy and employment in the context of family change
Which pensioners do not spend their incomes and why?
Working beyond state pension age: The impact of work-family life history and income
Research Projects 1997- 2003
Caring relationships over time: predicting outcomes for carers
Comparative study of child benefit packages in 22 countries
Costs of poverty and social exclusion among 16-18 year olds
Disability Research Partnership completed projects by 2002:
- Added value of the Supported Employment Programme
- Evaluation of the impact of Access to Work
- Good practice in work preparation
- Study of the feasibility of evaluating Access to Work and WORKSTEP using a comparison group methodology
- Users' views of Access to Work
Employment programmes for disabled people: An international research review
Evaluating Disabled Person's Tax Credit
Evaluating the Transitional Housing Benefit Scheme
Evaluating the Transitional Housing Benefit Scheme in Wales
Evaluation of the New Deal for Disabled People Personal Adviser Pilot Projects
Financial implications for parents of the death of their child
Incapacity benefit medical evidence appeals
Incapacity benefit medical evidence pilot evaluation
Incapacity benefits and work incentives
Local authorities and benefit overpayments
Measurement of absolute poverty
Poverty measurement using consumption data
Poverty: the outcomes for children
Role and function of the Social Security Commissioners
Survey of poverty and social exclusion in Britain