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Right to reply - Jonathan Portes on Niall Ferguson

11 June 2015

...in 2013, I wrote that the evidence was 'mixed on wages, with some evidence of downward pressure for the lower paid'. He argues that the latter statement contradicts the former. In the intervening five years, we've had new evidence and the UK labour market has changed, so it wouldn't be surprising if economists thought that the impacts in 2013 weren't necessarily the same as in 2008. But, in fact, as a recent summary of the evidence (by Jonathan Wadsworth, of the LSE and a member of the government's independent Migration Advisory Committee) put it: ''There is still no evidence of an overall negative impact of immigration on jobs and wages...any negative impacts on wages of less skilled groups are small.''

This article was published by The Spectator on June 11, 2015
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Related publications
EA019: Immigration and the UK Labour Market, Jonathan Wadsworth Centre for Economic Performance 2015 Election Analyses Series, February 2015

Related links
Jonathan Wadsworth webpage
Labour Market Programme webpage

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