Publications
Universal Credit: Implications for Scotland
02/09/2016
Implications of Universal Credit scheme on those in work or on Housing Benefit
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EU Membership: Workplace Rights, Consumer Protection & Legal Safeguards
15/06/2016
Leaving the EU will have a devastating effect on workers’ rights
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Housing Costs, Poverty and Homelessness in Scotland
17/05/2016
Social housing and homelessness in Scotland
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Changes in Household Income and Expenditure in Scotland 2008-2014: Household Debt
23/02/2016
Study of the increase in household debt in Scotland from 2008-2014
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Changes in Household Income and Expenditure in Scotland 2008-2014: Benefits
24/01/2016
Study of the number of Scottish households reliant on benefits since the 2008 recession
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Youth Unemployment published in Scotland 2008-2015
06/12/2015
Building on a previous report on youth employment, From Recession to Recovery looks at youth employment and unemployment in Scotland from 2008 to 2015
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Mental Health and Scotland's Prison's Population
12/07/2015
This report examines the mental health of Scotland’s prison population.
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Demographics and Scotland's Future
13/09/2014
This report examines level of immigration required in an independent Scotland to meet the SNPs spending requirements.
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Energy Supply in an Independent Scotland
10/09/2014
This report examines energy supply and regulation policies in an independent Scotland.
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Addressing the Productivity Challenge in Scotland
21/07/2014
Director of Research
The research indicates the main barriers to improving productivity in Scotland lie not with the education system but with the nature of our economy and model of work that has developed over the last 20 years.
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Debt and Destiny
26/06/2014
Legal Fellow
An assessment of an independent Scotland’s fair share of the United Kingdom’s national debt and the impact it could have on Scotland’s future.
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Early Education 4 Scotland
01/03/2014
Executive Chairman
Scotland was once renowned as a world leader in education but many emerging nations are now surpassing Scotland in test results and university rankings. The recently published report from the innovative think tank, The Scotland Institute, offers a practical insight into a way for Scotland to begin to recapture its standing, both for excellence and for equity in educational opportunity.
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Defence and Security in an Independent Scotland
24/06/2013
The decision on whether or not Scotland should become an independent country is a momentous one, and at the heart of the idea of sovereignty lies the first duty of any state – the duty to defend its citizens. The question of how an independent Scotland would and should defend itself is therefore fundamental to the debate, and the Scotland Institute’s investigation is the foremost publication on the subject.
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Changing Face of Youth Unemployment in Scotland 1992 - 2012
19/05/2013
Director of Research
This report reviews the changing face of both youth employment and youth unemployment in Scotland over the last 20 years. That time span was adopted as it covers the period from the depths of the early 1990s recession to the current economic problems punctuated by the brief New Labour boom based on credit and debt. It also allows an overview of the impact of the establishment of the Scottish Parliament by identifying the situation in 1997 just before it was set up.
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Economic Costs of Social Exclusion
08/12/2012
Director of Research
This paper summarises the costs of poverty and social exclusion in three ways: the costs that are borne by individuals who are poor; the social costs that then fall on society, and the economic consequences of social exclusion. The UK is now one of the most unequal societies in the OECD ; increasingly people are being locked into the income group of their parents.
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Social Exclusion in Scotland
29/07/2012
Roger Cook
Director of Research
Scotland, since devolution in 1999, has shown a commitment to tackling the problems of social exclusion. However, overall, the outcomes have been mixed. In many cases, the areas with the greatest failings are also those where responsibility has been retained by the Westminster Parliament, but in other respects Scotland actually underperforms the rest of the UK.
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