2pm, Wednesday May 20th 2009
British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH
Renowned author and economist Professor Robert Shiller will be speaking at the launch of the Social Market Foundation’s new report on unemployment insurance. The report Anglo-Flexicurity: Insuring against unemployment in the UK draws on Prof Shiller’s work on livelihood insurance and on the SMF’s important 2008 report on the same topic.
The Social Market Foundation (SMF) responded to the Budget announcement, that councils will be funded to run job creation schemes, by saying their analysis of similar programmes in the past, and in other countries, suggests that local authority-led job creation schemes do not maintain jobseekers’ skills nor improve their employment chances later on - Read more...
A speech Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave to the SMF in 2003 when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer is referenced in Mary Riddell's column in the Daily Telegraph. - Read more...
The Social Market Foundation brought together a range of experts to discuss the challenges and opportunities of the new cardiovascular disease screening programme. The discussion was led by Professor Roger Boyle, the National Director for Heart Disease. This report includes Professor Boyle's remarks, and a thematic account of the ensuing discussion. Read more...