A report (Pay growth predicted to stall at 2% as number of skilled workers rises, 30 December, page 20) said that over the past year almost three-quarters of new jobs created went to non-UK nationals, according to official figures - 326,000 compared with 122,000 jobs taken by UK workers. The ONS estimates relate to the number of people in employment, not to the number of jobs. The London School of Economics Centre for Economic Performance has found that immigrants do not account for a majority of new jobs, but that ''the immigrant share in new jobs is - and always has been - broadly the same as the share of immigrants in the working age population''.
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Related Publications
Immigration and the UK Labour Market by Jonathan Wadsworth, Centre for Economic Performance 2015 Election Analyses Series, Paper No.19, February 2015
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Jonathan Wadsworth webpage
Labour Markets Programme webpage
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