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While skilled immigration ceteris paribus provides an immediate boost to GDP per capita by adding to the human capital … indigenous workers? We analyse this issue theoretically and empirically. The theoretical model shows how skilled immigration can … workers have declined in a period where immigration has been rising strongly, and have declined significantly more in high …
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the 1980s, and latterly by immigration in the 2000s. New measures of labour market flows by migrant status uncover both …
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Rising immigration has undoubtedly been one of the most significant demographic developments experienced by the United … Kingdom over the past fifteen years. This article reviews the evidence on the effects of immigration on the UK labour market …. On average, it seems that immigration has not had much of an effect on either employment or pay. However, there may be …
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Although most UK immigrants are likely to be eligible to apply for social housing, there is no evidence that they have preferential access - if anything the reverse seems to have been the case. But it does seem that there is less discrimination against immigrants and ethnic minorities now than...
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immigration in general and EU immigration in particular have still not, on average, materialised. It is hard to find evidence of … economic performance and opportunity. But we still need to know more about the effects of rising immigration beyond the labour …
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Immigration to the UK has risen in the past 10 years and has had a measurable effect on the supply of different types … of labour. But, existing studies of the impact of immigration on the wages of native-born workers in the UK (e … an increase in immigration reduces the wages of immigrants relative to natives. We show this using a pooled time series …
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While most studies of the decision to immigrate focus on the absolute income differences between countries, we argue that relative change in purchasing power or status, as captured by an individual’s ranking in the wage distribution, may also be important. This will in turn be influenced by...
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