Employment and employability
Book Chapter
McQuaid, R. W. (2008)
Employment and employability. In M. A. Mulhern, J. Beech, & E. Thompson (Eds.), Scottish Life and Society, the working life of Scots, 67-84. Birlinn, University of Edinburgh
Inter-agency Cooperation and New Approaches to Employability
Journal Article
Lindsay, C., McQuaid, R. W., & Dutton, M. (2008)
Inter-agency Cooperation and New Approaches to Employability. Social Policy and Administration, 42(7), 715-732. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9515.2008.00634.x
This article examines the role of inter-agency cooperation, which is one form of ‘partnership’, in new approaches to employability in the UK. The article articulates a ‘model ...
Evaluating the social impacts of change in a sustainable future
Conference Proceeding
McQuaid, R. W. (2008)
Evaluating the social impacts of change in a sustainable future
Flexibility in the labour market - some gender issues
Conference Proceeding
McQuaid, R. W. (2008)
Flexibility in the labour market - some gender issues
Employer recruitment preferences: a stated preference experiment
Conference Proceeding
McQuaid, R. W., & Bergmann, A. (2008)
Employer recruitment preferences: a stated preference experiment
Public private partnerships in the European Union - the cases of the UK, Germany and Austria
Conference Proceeding
McQuaid, R. W., & Scherrer, W. (2008)
Public private partnerships in the European Union - the cases of the UK, Germany and Austria
Across the European Union the use of different forms of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) have been growing, but in different ways and for different reasons across Member Sta...
Flexibility in the UK - the case of activation policies
Presentation / Conference
McQuaid, R. W. (2007, December)
Flexibility in the UK - the case of activation policies
No abstract available.
Meeting employer's skills upgrading needs through vocational education and training provision in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Report
McQuaid, R. W., Greig, M., Hollywood, E., Lindsay, C., Thomson, E., Devins, D., …McCracken, M. G. (2007)
Meeting employer's skills upgrading needs through vocational education and training provision in Scotland and Northern Ireland
Letter from Edinburgh - governance, economic performance and economic disparities in Scotland
Journal Article
Brown, R., McQuaid, R. W., & Newlands, D. (2007)
Letter from Edinburgh - governance, economic performance and economic disparities in Scotland. Regions, 24-27
John Smith, when Leader of the Labour Party, said that devolution was “the settled will of the Scottish people”. However, far from quelling debates about governance – and par...
Educational migration – students leaving a region to study elsewhere: the link to religion in Northern Ireland
Book Chapter
Hollywood, E., & McQuaid, R. W. (2007)
Educational migration – students leaving a region to study elsewhere: the link to religion in Northern Ireland. In C. Larsen, W. Mathejczyk, J. Kipper, & A. Schmid (Eds.), Monitoring of Regional Labour Markets in European States, 17-22. Rainer Hampp Verlag
This paper reviews data sources concerning the key patterns and drivers of educational migration and non-return in Northern Ireland (NI). In particular it considers the sourc...