Publications

Equipping Scotland for the future: Key challenges for the Scottish skills system

IPPR Scotland explore the current and future challenges facing the Scottish skills system and outlines the areas for action that will be needed to ensure that these challenges can be successfully...

09/01/2017

Publication Jobs & skills IPPR Scotland Report Scotland

Jobs and skills in Scotland: Addressing productivity, progression and in-work poverty

This report looks at the jobs recovery in Scotland since 2010, the current jobs market and the implications for the skills system in Scotland of changes to Scotland’s economy. Scotland’s jobs...

13/06/2016

Publication Jobs & skills New Skills at Work Scotland IPPR Scotland Report

Scotland's missing pay growth: The economic and fiscal impacts of weak wages since the financial crisis

Weak earnings growth over the last five years has made the Scottish economy smaller, and tax receipts lower, than was expected. Using IPPR Scotland's tax–benefit model, this paper assesses the scale...

23/03/2016

Publication Scotland IPPR Scotland Report Jobs & skills

New powers, new Scotland? How the Scottish parliament could use its new tax and benefit responsibilities

The devolution of greater powers over taxes and benefits to the Scottish parliament offers Scotland opportunities to both offset short-term challenges to its fiscal position, and to develop its own...

07/03/2016

Publication Budget Scotland IPPR Scotland Report Devolution & local leadership