IN Facts:
EU immigrants aren't taking Brits' jobs
1 June 2016
InFact: Researchers at Oxford, the LSE and NIESR agree; immigration doesn't affect British employment. Meanwhile, Brexit would hit jobs.
Intuitively, if immigrants are taking jobs from British workers, it would seem odd that we're seeing a record high employment rate of 74.2% at a time when immigration is high. This intuition is borne out by a string of academic studies - from the Centre for Economic Policy[sic] at the London School of Economics, the Institute for the Study of Labour, and the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford - that show EU migrants aren't putting Brits out of work.
...''even in the short term EU migration does not appear to have had a negative impact on the employment outcomes of UK natives''.
This view is shared by the Centre for Economic Policy [sic], which concluded that ''we can confidently say that the empirical evidence shows that EU immigration has not had significantly negative effects on average employment, wages, inequality or public services at the local level for the UK-born.''
This article was published online by IN Facts on June 1, 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 Series Paper No.05, May 2016
Technical Appendix to 'Brexit and the impact of immigration on the UK'
See the whole series of CEP Brexit Analysis papers here
Related links
Jonathan Wadsworth webpage
Swati Dhingra webpage
Gianmarco Ottaviano webpage
John Van Reenen webpage
Labour Markets Programme webpage
Trade Programme webpage
Growth Programme webpage