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An interim report on decent work has been published by Oxfam and the University of Scotland in collaboration with 糖心TV Institute for Employment Research. The report, co-authored by Sally Wright of IER, examines what low paid, low skilled workers in Scotland want from jobs. The report, , can be freely downloaded.

IER warmly welcomes Sudipa Sarkar from the University of Salamanca in Spain, who will be a Visiting Fellow until June.

Sudipa is a labour economist with additional interests in the economics of education and development economics. She has published a number of articles on poverty, skills and occupational change in India and also a report on pay and job quality in India for Eurofound, where she was working part of last year. Sudipa will be working with a number of colleagues in IER over the next few months.

Professor Chris Warhurst provides key evidence on job quality for new Scottish Parliament report on . The inquiry, conducted between June and November 2015, establishes the current quality of employment in Scotland, in part by looking at changes in job quality since the start of the 2008 recession.

A new book on job quality, co-edited by IER Director Chris Warhurst, has been published in Australia by Federation Press. Job Quality in Australia examines the range of disciplinary perspectives on job quality, and conceptual and methodological problems with current understanding of job quality as well as offering proposals for developing that understanding and delivering better policy to improve job quality.

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