First, the youth unemployment rate remains dizzyingly high at 18.5 per cent, with young people over three-and-a-half times more likely to be unemployed than adults. In the first quarter of 2014...
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To ensure welfare-to-work support is responsive to local conditions, we propose that a new national programme for mainstream jobseekers is established alongside a localised programme for those facing...
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This report analyses the youth unemployment problems of France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and the US, examining how the transition from education to full-time employment is managed in each...
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The fifth and final briefing paper in IPPR's Condition of Britain series explores work, welfare, and how the people of Britain are making ends meet. This paper explores the challenges for people...
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Exploring the historical trends behind - and current public attitudes towards - social security spending in the UK, this report argues that a welfare cap could provide an opportunity to advance...
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In 2010, just a few weeks into its term, the Coalition government abolished Child Trust Funds, bringing to an abrupt end one of the world's very few universal asset-based welfare policies, and soon...
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This paper suggests that the government should establish National Salary Insurance, which would provide people with much higher levels of support if they lose their job but require this support to be...
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The universal credit is a sound idea. Any reform that improves incentives to work and humanises the benefits system is welcome. However, it faces several challenges in its ambition to 'make work pay'...
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This report shows that despite promising to devolve power, the Coalition government's flagship welfare-to-work programme does nothing to change one of the most highly centralised welfare systems in...
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The share of poor households accounted for by working households has been increasing in the UK over the last decade, with more than half of poor children living in working households before the...
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