This paper asks whether immigration to Britain has had any impact on average wages. There seems to be a broad consensus … immigration in Britain, the immigrant-native ratio has a significant, small, negative impact on average wages. Closer examination … anecdote, but does not seem to have been recorded previously in the empirical literature. -- immigration ; occupation ; wages …

This paper asks whether immigration to Britain has had any impact on average wages. There seems to be a broad consensus … among academics that the share of immigrants in the workforce has little or no effect on native wages. These studies … small negative impact on average British wages. This finding is important for monetary policy makers, who are interested in …