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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 |
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| Author: | James Kirkup |
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Happy voters briefing
This briefing paper published by the SMF and the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE), shows that happier a voter is, the more likely they are to vote for an incumbent government party.
| Published: | 31 May 2017 |
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| Author(s): | Eugenio Proto, Federica Liberini, Michela Redoano |
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Rising to the Challenge: the Further Education and skills sector over the next decade
The report argues that maximising FE and skills’ ability to boost the technical skills of British workers, young and old, should be an urgent priority for politicians
| Published: | 26 April 2017 |
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| Author: | Nigel Keohane |
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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 |
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| Author: | James Kirkup |
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Working it out: responses and recommendations to the rise in self-employment
The pamphlet looks at the rising trend in self-employment from a variety of perspectives, including tax, regulation and red tape, pensions and mortgages, trade unions and the self-employed, enterprise education,...
| Published: | 21 February 2017 |
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| Author: | Rachel Reeves MP |
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CAGE Report: Understanding Happiness
In the past half century, however, happiness has moved into the domain of social science and has engendered an ever-expanding body of research, of which the three pioneering papers in...
| Published: | 23 January 2017 |
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| Author: | Eugenio Proto |
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Targeting Better Health
This report proposes a new 'NHS Funding Rule' to set healthcare spending on a more sustainable trajectory for the long-term.
| Published: | 08 December 2016 |
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| Author: | Nigel Keohane |
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Let’s Stay Together? Combating discrimination on Airbnb
This report draws on recent findings detailed in Laouénan and Rathelot (2016) and looks at nineteen cities in North America and Europe with the largest number of listings to examine the existence of discrimination on Airbnb.
| Published: | 04 December 2016 |
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| Author(s): | Roland Rathelot, Morgane Laouénan |
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Moving On: A Labour approach to the post-Brexit economy
This short paper by five leading Labour Party MPs aims to outline a possible approach the government could take to rebalancing the British economy in the first post-EU referendum Autumn Statement.
| Published: | 18 November 2016 |
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| Author(s): | Chuka Umunna, Rachel Reeves MP, Alison McGovern MP, Shabana Mahmood MP, Chris Leslie |