Latest Publications

A range of experts - Alan Milburn, Sir Win Bischoff, Stephen Overell, David Johnston and Paul Collard – offer their thoughts on why social mobility is so low in the creative industries, and how policymakers and the industry can improve it.

This report outlines a fresh approach to national unemployment insurance, in which people can insure themselves against loss of income due to unemployment. It builds on the conceptual framework set out in the Social Market Foundation's earlier report Anglo-flexicurity: A safety net for UK workers.

This report uses data from two previous recessions and the latest Ernst & Young ITEM Club economic growth forecasts to estimate what might happen to claimant count unemployment and the number of long-term unemployed in particular.

In this report, the authors examine how likely the implementation of FND will be to succeed in four key areas: cost-effective commissioning; helping all jobseekers; preventing revolving door employment; and stimulating innovation in welfare-to-work provision.

This report argues that government, in cooperation with the private sector, can and should provide a safety net for the vulnerable middle class to counteract this trend.

The New Demographics: Reshaping the world of work and retirement analyses a number of false assumptions which underline our thinking about retirement and calls for a radical overhaul of employment and leadership models that will allow people to continue working.

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 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.