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Brexit, immigration and #100

16 May 2016

With so many heavyweights, from Barack Obama to Mark Carney, saying that we will be worse off with Brexit, why are the polls still neck and neck? There seem to me two reasonable explanations: that the tabloid media have a strong influence, and that immigration is a big issue among voters. But perhaps the two are connected, for reasons that will become clear. ... For a very good and simple explanation of the facts about recent EU immigration, see this LSE analysis.

This article was published online in the Mainly Macro blog on May 16, 2016
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Associated CEP articles
Immigration from the EU is not a 'necessary evil' and does not drag down wages, Jonathan Wadsworth, Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco Ottaviano and John Van Reenen, LSE BrexitVote blog, May 11, 2016

Related publications
Brexit and the Impact of Immigration on the UK, Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco Ottaviano, John Van Reenen and Jonathan Wadsworth, CEP Brexit Analysis Paper No.05, May 2016
See the complete CEP Brexit Analysis Series here

Related links
Swati Dhingra webpage
Gianmarco Ottaviano webpage
John Van Reenen webpage
Jonathan Wadsworth webpage
Labour Markets Programme webpage
Trade Programme webpage
Growth Programme webpage

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