We said in reporting official Labour Market Statistics that ''Three in four new jobs go to migrants from EU countries'' (News, Nov 12). This was wrong. The Office for National Statistics has stated that its estimates of employment by nationality and country of birth relate to the number of people in employment rather than the number of jobs. Changes therefore show net changes in the number of people employed, not the proportion of new jobs that have been filled by UK and non-UK workers. Analysis of statistics by the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance has consistently found that immigrants do not account for a majority of new jobs, and that the immigrant share in new jobs is broadly the same as the share of immigrants in the working age population. We are happy to make this clear.
This article was published in The Times on December 10, 2015
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Immigration and the UK Labour Market, Jonathan Wadsworth, CEP 2015 Election Analyses No. 19, February 2015
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