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A London without immigrants would not be London

22 June 2016

There is little evidence to support the former. Roughly 2.2 million EU nationals work in the UK, comprising 6.6% of the workforce, according to the FT report. Another report from the London School of Economics and Centre for Economic Performance found that while EU migration has increased and a third of EU migrants live in London, ''areas of the UK with large increases in EU immigration did not suffer greater falls in the jobs and pay of UK-born workers.'' Indeed, the authors noted that ''immigrants consume goods and services and this increased demand helps to create more employment opportunities.'' To assume otherwise is ''lump of labour fallacy'', the idea that the number of jobs in an area is fixed and immigrants push other job seekers out.

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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 Series Paper No.05, May 2016
Technical Appendix to CEP Brexit Analysis Series Paper No.05
See the complete set of CEP Brexit Analysis research papers here

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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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