Reports
Labour market effects of India’s termination from the United States’ GSP
This report from UK think tank the Institute of Development Studies investigates the effects of India's termination from the US' GSP. This paper investigates the sudden 2019 termination by the United States Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) of trade with India as a quasi-natural experiment. Given the re-election of Donald Trump and global concerns about...
Change the prescription
This report from UK think tank the Centre for Social Justice explores what has driven the recent rise in the mental ill-health of our nation. Change the Prescription explores what has driven the recent rise in the mental ill-health of our nation. It contends that the prevailing medical model often fails to address the core...
Unpaid and underpaid internships
This report from UK think tank The Sutton Trust provides an updated picture of the graduate internship market. Internships have grown to become a crucial part of the graduate job market. Offering graduates an invaluable opportunity to gain hands-on experience, develop key skills, and build their networks, they can be formative experiences for those trying...
Saving apprenticeships
This report from UK think tank the Social Market Foundation outlines strategies for creating a skills system that adequately encourages genuine apprenticeships. In this report, Baroness Alison Wolf calls for the new Growth and Skills Levy to focus on young people, have greater local involvement, and distinguish between apprenticeships and workplace upskilling. The current system...
In the balance: Lessons for changing the mix of professions in NHS services
This report from UK think tank the Nuffield Trust explores the implications of altering the professional composition within NHS services. This report explores the implications of altering the professional composition within NHS services. It discusses the potential benefits and challenges of diversifying roles, aiming to enhance service delivery and address workforce shortages through strategic role...
A level of uncertainty
This report from UK think tank the Social Market Foundation puts forward a set of recommendations that prioritise the best interests of apprentices and taxpayers. Through the new ‘Growth and Skills Levy’, the government has signalled its desire to rebalance funding towards young people and entry-level training opportunities. While critics are keen to present the...
Lonely Nation – Part 5
This report from UK think tank the Centre for Social Justice looks at tackling the human and economic costs of Britain's loneliness epidemic. Britain is a lonely nation. The government’s own statistics show that 2023/24 was the loneliest year on record. Polling for the CSJ reveals that nearly six in ten adults feel lonely most,...
A hard day’s night
This report from UK think tank the Resolution Foundation provides the context for the Government’s ambitions to raise employment and drive up job quality. This report – part of our ‘Unsung Britan’ programme of work – provides the context for the Government’s ambitions to raise employment and drive up job quality. It describes the labour...
Stemming the tide: Healthier jobs to tackle economic inactivity
This report from UK think tank the Work Foundation aims to provide policy direction for how Government and employers can work together to help retain more people. The new Government has set an ambitious target to raise the employment rate to 80% – which would represent an increase of approximately 2.4 million more people in...
Bangladeshi, Black African and Pakistani households at higher risk of very deep, long-term poverty
This report from UK think tank the Joseph Rowntree Foundation explores the enhanced risk of persistent very deep poverty among Bangladeshi, Black African and Pakistani households. Bangladeshi, Black African and Pakistani families are up to 5 times more likely to be living in severe poverty for a long time compared to white families in the...
French lessons for Britain’s economy
This report from UK think tank the Centre for European Reform finds that macro-economic forces have been crucial to the bigger productivity slowdown in Britain. Average wages in Britain are only slightly higher than they were in 2007. That extraordinary fact is down to extremely weak productivity growth after 2008. France, on the other hand,...
Mind the disability employment gap
This report from UK think tank the Centre for Social Justice calls on the new government to ensure that the needs of disabled and sick people are at the heart of their plans to ‘get Britain working’. In 2021 the Centre for Social Justice published Now is the Time, a landmark report on disability in...
From backwater to battleground
This report from UK think tank the Social Market Foundation examines the political importance of a joined-up immigration and skills policy in the UK. The new Labour government views the perceived dependence of some sectors of the UK economy on overseas workers as unsustainable and contrary to the national interest. Joined-up immigration and skills policy...
From the frontline: Empowering staff to drive the NHS reform agenda
This report from UK think tank IPPR puts forward a new approach, based on ideas of democracy and decentralisation, as the way to achieve better decision-making throughout the NHS. The return on public investment has weakened since the pandemic; more money is not leading to many more patients being treated overall. At the same time,...
Spending time: The role of the visitor economy in UK cities
This report from UK think tank Centre for Cities provides a comprehensive picture of domestic visitor spending across the UK. This report provides a comprehensive picture of domestic visitor spending across the UK’s 63 largest cities for the first time, and sets out the ‘visitor offer’ in each place and how that compares nationally.
