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Immigration policy and constitutional change: The perspectives on Scottish employers and industry representatives.
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Immigration to Scotland and the constitutional change debate: Geography, difference and the question of scale
The paper by Professor Allan Findlay and Helen Packwood looks at ‘Immigration to Scotland and the Constitutional Change Debate: Geography, difference and the question of scale’.
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Constitutional change and inequality in Scotland
David Comerford and David Eiser of the University of Stirling discuss these questions in the context of the debate around the Scottish independence referendum, in which inequality has played a prom
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Can an Ageing Scotland Afford Independence?
The aim and scope of this paper is to isolate the effects of population ageing in the context of potential Scottish independence.
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The Scottish Constitution After Independence
According to the White Paper issued this week, Scotland’s Future, an independent Scotland will have a new written constitution (this repeats the commitment contained in the Scottish Government’s ea
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Rescaling Welfare
British Academy/Royal Society of Edinburgh - Enlightening the Constitutional debate
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Fiscal sustainability of an independent Scotland
In this report, the IFS examines the long-run fiscal pressures that an independent Scotland may face, how these would differ from those facing the UK, and the size of the fiscal consolidation that
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Inequality in Scotland: trends, drivers, and implications for the independence debate
What is the level of income inequality in Scotland? How does income inequality in Scotland compare to the rest of the UK, and to other OECD countries?
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Taxing an Independent Scotland
This Briefing Note looks at the way that tax revenue in Scotland is currently delivered and at the reform options that would be open to an independent Scotland.