To achieve full employment over the next decade requires a fresh approach to welfare to work. This paper recommends that workless people be given a virtual budget – a personal employment account – instead of being enrolled in the current New Deal. This account, based on a similar initiative being piloted in seven states in the US, would be used far more flexibly for a far wider range of support. Read more...
Published just before the long awaited Pensions Commission report on the future of pensions, this publication explores how pension compulsion might have been best implemented in order to meet the challenges facing the UK pension system. Read more...
This report is a product of the 2005 SMF Internal Commission examining the UK's system of Incapacity Benefit. Read more...
This paper sets out the 2005 SMF working group on pension compulsion's initial discussions and preliminary agendas. Read more...
Evidence suggest that experiencing some form of employment or work experience is the most effective way of getting low skilled young people into permanent employment. This report analyses the effectiveness of work experience, training and employment schemes provided by the private sector for a particularly vulnerable group of low skilled youth: young offenders and young people at risk of offending. Read more...
In this publication, Peter Lilley argues that compulsion is the only real solution to Britain’s pension’s crisis. Read more...