DB Pensions: Choking Hazard

This report looks at the cost of defined benefit (DB) or final salary pensions to UK companies and argues that DB pension payments are acting as a drag on businesses and preventing them from expanding, investing, paying their younger workers more, or paying more towards younger workers’ pensions. It means that there is intergenerational inequity… Read more »

Toxic Time Capsule: Why nuclear energy is an intergenerational issue

This paper argues that cancelling Hinkley Point C, dubbed “the most expensive building on Earth”, could save Britain at least £30-£40 billion. Written by Andrew Simms, for IF, the paper compares the cost of nuclear to the likely costs of alternative energy supplies from onshore wind and solar, and questions whether current policy-makers have the… Read more »

The IF European Intergenerational Fairness Index 2016

IF is grateful to the Open Society Initiative for Europe for their invaluable financial support, which funded the production of an interactive online tool that visualises the findings from this project. Try playing around with the data yourself! Has Europe let down its young? That is the question the Intergenerational Foundation (IF) strives to answer with the… Read more »

Unlocking England’s Hidden Homes

  England’s housing crisis is receiving an increasing amount of attention from campaigners, the media and policy-makers, yet the obvious solution to addressing it – building more housing – still faces a range of seemingly intractable barriers. It seems clear that if the government is serious about reaching its target of building 1 million new… Read more »