• Non-EU immigration linked with UK job losses
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[B]The government's official advisers on migration say there is a link between immigration from outside the European Union and job losses among UK workers.[/B] The Migration Advisory Committee said there were [B]23 fewer UK jobs for every 100 migrants from outside the EU[/B]. But a separate report from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) says immigration has had little impact. [B] The government said it was working to reduce net migration.[/B] The Migration Advisory Committee (Mac) estimates [B]160,000 British-born workers' jobs have been "displaced" following non-EU immigration between 1995 and 2010[/B]. "Those migrants who have been in the UK for over five years are not associated with displacement of British-born workers," it said. The committee also looked at the effect of migration on salaries, and found [B]overall wages for the most well-paid people went up, while those at the bottom went down[/B]. The report also added that [B]EU migration had had "little or no impact" on the native employment rate[/B]. [B]Health and care services have also employed large numbers of migrants, he said, but this was mainly at a time of shortage of UK workers so British jobs were unlikely to have been displaced.[/B] Earlier the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) said there was "no association" between migration and the numbers of people claiming unemployment. The study looked at the number of migrants given National Insurance numbers between 2002-3 and 2010-11 and compared them with the number claiming unemployment benefits. The NIESR said: "[B]The results show a very small negative and generally insignificant correlation between the migrant inflow rate and the change in the claimant count rate. "For all practical purposes, these results suggest that migration has essentially no impact on claimant count unemployment.[/B]" But it said it was still not known whether an increase in the number of migrants coming to the UK leads to a fall in the number of low-skilled jobs for British workers which is masked by more jobs for highly skilled Britons. [B]Migration Watch UK, which campaigns for tighter immigration controls, welcomed the report.[/B] Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: "This is a thoroughly professional report. "[B]The committee has had the courage to say straight out that immigration can add to unemployment, especially during a recession.[/B] "They are also right to draw attention to impacts that are harder to quantify - such as housing and congestion." [URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16484918[/URL]
They took er jerbs!
Can't wait for the Daily Mail headline tomorrow regarding this study :v:
So basically, people coming into a western country from third-world countries are capitalized on by unscrupulous employers, who know they will work for less than people raised in that western country.
[QUOTE=Terminutter;34144886]Can't wait for the Daily Mail headline tomorrow regarding this study :v:[/QUOTE] MUSLIM TERRORISTS TAKE BRITISH JOBS RANSOM
But we've known this forever. MAH FECKING AUTOMERGE
Totally unrelated. That's like looking at a chart, noticing how pizza sales rise as car crashes fall and saying they're linked to each other.
Bullshit, the EU is responsible for all of Britain's problems No exceptions
[QUOTE=Stonecycle;34145235]Totally unrelated. That's like looking at a chart, noticing how pizza sales rise as car crashes fall and saying they're linked to each other.[/QUOTE] no they are related it's just that it'll be fuel for racist groups such as the BNP or UKIP and papers like the Daily Mail
There are so many Polish immigrants in my town. The unemployment rate is very high.
There are next to no migrants in my town. The unemployment rate is very high.
We have a lot of immigrants in my town. What does "Big Issue" mean in Polish? They say it to me all the time.
[QUOTE=The mouse;34145296]There are so many Polish immigrants in my town. The unemployment rate is very high.[/QUOTE] [b]non[/b]-EU immigrants
And yet this article published on the same day says the exact opposite... [url]http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/immigration-does-not-cause-unemployment-6287404.html[/url]
Whether or not they do have a direct effect on the unemployment rate, I'd rather see immigration kurbed instead of encouraged for the time being.
[QUOTE=RobbL;34145787]And yet this article published on the same day says the exact opposite... [url]http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/immigration-does-not-cause-unemployment-6287404.html[/url][/QUOTE] That study says EU migration doesn't seem to cause job losses , whereas the main study mentioned here says that non-EU migration does seem to cause job losses. If the study is right, then those jobs would account for about 6% of current unemployment.
[QUOTE=Stonecycle;34145235]Totally unrelated. That's like looking at a chart, noticing how pizza sales rise as car crashes fall and saying they're linked to each other.[/QUOTE] Relevant: (Not that I'm agreeing) [img]http://www.venganza.org/images/PiratesVsTemp.png[/img]
Interesting thought though - even if jobs are being taken, people from outside the EU generally have no recourse to public funds unless they're an asylum seeker, so they tend to generate money for the economy and government.
immigrant in uk without job: "bloody invaders delinquency causing chaos! get a job instead of stealing what is ours!" immigrant in uk that managed to get a job, trying to blend in: "stop stealing our jobs!" oil king in london: "would you be interested in our jewels?"
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