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Vote Leave's anti-immigration system is deeply flawed

10 June 2016

Study after study confirms that EU migrants have an overwhelmingly positive effect on the British economy. They have a higher employment rate (78.2%) than people born in the UK (72.5%), those from Poland and other A8 accession economies especially so (81.9%). Their hard work neither deprives British workers of jobs nor depresses local wages, as a new study by the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) shows. On the contrary, EU migrants tend to enhance the productivity of British workers, and hence their pay.

This article was published online by the LSE British Politics and Policy blog on June 10, 2016
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Related publications
Brexit and the Impact of Immigration on the UK, Jonathan Wadsworth, Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco Ottaviano and John Van Reenen, CEP Brexit Analysis Paper No.05, May 2016
Why immigration is no reason to leave the EU, Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco Ottaviano, John Van Reenen and Jonathan Wadsworth. Article in CentrePiece Volume 21, Issue 1, Summer 2016

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

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