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Back to the Future

This paper by SMF's Migration Researcher Jonathan Thomas, looks at lessons from recent history to illuminate the potential consequences of the UK Government’s proposed future immigration system in the UK. It draws four key lessons for UK policymakers today
Published: 16 May 2019
Author: Jonathan Thomas
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All Immigration is Local

The prevailing wisdom is that local pressures due to immigration could be better addressed by a larger and better publicised Controlling Migration Fund. Is this really the case, and what might the alternatives be?
Published: 22 January 2019
Author: Jonathan Thomas
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Recommendations from SMF Report: All immigration is local

Recommendations from SMF report: All Immigration is Local by Jonathan Thomas 
Published: 09 January 2019
Author: Jonathan Thomas
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Austerity, Immigration or Globalisation: Was Brexit predictable?

The UK vote to leave the European Union is widely seen as a watershed moment in UK history and European integration. Why did some areas vote to leave the EU, and others to remain? What lessons can be drawn from the referendum other than the result itself?
Published: 27 November 2018
Author: Social Market Foundation
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‘Take Back Control?’

This report reveals the true extent of the UK government's control over immigration and makes the case for greater political honesty about that control.
Published: 20 September 2018
Author: Jonathan Thomas
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Productivity takes Leave? Maternity benefits and career opportunities of women in academia

In this paper, Vera Troeger, Research Theme Leader at the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE) looks at the effect of maternity benefits on the career opportunities of women in academia.
Published: 17 April 2018
Author: Vera Troeger
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Rules of Engagement

This report envisages a future where no matter how the work is performed there is greater evenness in tax treatment and in associated rights
Published: 20 June 2017
Author: Nigel Keohane
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Social Market Foundation: Immigration briefing

For many politicians, the British electorate’s hostility to immigration at its current level and in its current form is taken as a given, a simple unchangeable fact.  The assumption that...
Published: 05 June 2017
Author: James Kirkup
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Show and tell: Sharing the benefits of skilled immigration

In this paper the SMF calls for the government’s new Immigration Skills Charge to be used to fund an expanded Controlling Migration Fund.
Published: 06 April 2017
Author: James Kirkup
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