Download Summary Changes to our way of life during the Covid lockdown accelerated an existing drive for more flexible working … Continue reading “Is Flexible Working?”

Governments are constantly tempted to push flexible working because it allows them to support a popular social change without having … Continue reading “Mandatory flexible working is a stealth tax on jobs and wages, warns new IEA report”

Responding to the latest labour market statistics from the ONS, Professor Len Shackleton, Editorial and Research Fellow at the Institute … Continue reading “Government policy harming young people, labour market figures show”

Commenting on today’s labour market figures, Professor Len Shackleton, Editorial and Research Fellow at the free market think tank the … Continue reading “Government’s ‘cack-handed’ policy choices hits jobs”

Summary In 2023, the global total fertility rate (TFR) fell to 2.2 children per woman, below the population replacement rate … Continue reading “Mind The Fertility Gap: Why people stopped having babies and how economic freedom can help”

British women are falling at least 0.4 children short of their own stated family goals, according to fertility data through … Continue reading “Deregulate to boost birth rates, new research suggests”

Commenting on this morning’s labour market statistics, Professor Len Shackleton, Editorial and Research Fellow at the free market think tank … Continue reading “‘Gloomy picture’ for labour market”

Our Editorial and Research Fellow Len Shackleton has written for The Telegraph on the Resident Doctor strikes The article said: … Continue reading “We must clip the BMA’s wings”

Our Director of Communications Callum Price has written for ConservativeHome on scrapping the Employment Rights Bill. The article said: “The … Continue reading “If the government wants growth, it should scrap the Employment Rights Bill”