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Murder of British M.P. heightens uncertainty over Brexit vote

16 June 2016

The failure to make a case for the E.U. had left a big opportunity for Johnson and Nigel Farage, the head of the U.K. Independence Party, to argue that Britain doesn't get anything out of its membership except bureaucratic diktats from Brussels, and boatloads of immigrants from Poland and other countries in Eastern Europe, who fill the welfare rolls and depress wages. These claims are largely false: a recent paper by three economists at the London School of Economics concluded, ''EU immigrants are more educated, younger, more likely to be in work and less likely to claim benefits than the UK-born.'' But, as the polls indicate, the anti-E.U. fabrications are widely believed.

This article was published online by the New Yorker on June 16, 2016
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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

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

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