Latest Publications

Halving the disability employment gap is a challenging ambition that should not be rushed. This report sets out a range of principles for how reform should progress and a number of areas where specific reforms should be considered.

This new briefing sets out the case for scrapping the Coalition’s immigration cap in favour of the SMF's preferred new target - an aims to increase public confidence in the immigration system by 2020.

This was prepared for the All Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth event The Good Economy, taking place on Wednesday 4 February 2015.

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.