Migration Advisory Committee research
MAC research programme
The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) operates its own research programme, which it uses to improve and broaden the existing evidence base on issues related to migration. In particular, the MAC seeks to commission research that it may use to help inform the advice and recommendations that it provides in response to future questions it may be asked by the government.
As well as carrying out its own in-house research, the MAC can use its limited research budget to commission research projects to external contractors through a process of open competition. Information on MAC research proposals, and how to be considered for MAC research contracts, is published on the Home Office Research Development Statistics website as and when it becomes available. If you would like to be kept informed of future MAC research proposals, please inform the MAC secretariat by sending an email to MAC@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk.
Completed research projects are typically published on this website (please see links below). The MAC promotes wide dissemination of research and encourages its contractors to disseminate their findings further.
Research projects published in 2012
Research projects for the analysis of the impacts of migration.
Research projects published in 2009 and 2010
Defining and measuring skill at the occupational and job level - Frontier Economics, November 2010
Immigration and employers' incentives and behaviour - SQW Consulting, November 2010
Production technology, migration and skills - SQW Consulting, November 2010
Immigration and employers' incentives and behaviour - SQW Consulting, 2009