BBC Three Counties Radio:
Jasmeen Khan
9 October 2016
Caller: ... not in many cases a cynical attempt on the part of employers to simply cheat workers by paying them the lowest wages that they can. It's a competitive market that they are operating in and unless they are able to manage their costs then they go out of business.
Interviewer: ... language around the EU was people that felt workers from outside the country were taking jobs that they had a right to.
Caller: There is no evidence of that really.
Interviewer: you can't deny the strength of the sentiment
Caller: ... it's a great shame that that was allowed to take root. I can't remember any really effective methods on the part of any politicians, certainly from the mainstream parties, to do that. The only - in the FT this week there was a long article that refuted all these allegations about low wages - about migrant workers driving down wages - the London School of Economics, their Economic Performance Centre [sic] looked at all of this and refuted all of those arguments as well but there was nobody amongst the politicians who took up these arguments and ... [caller lost]
The radio programme was broadcast on BBC Three Counties Radio's Yasmeen Khan talk show on October 9, 2016
Link to the broadcast here
Related publications
Immigration and the UK Labour Market, Jonathan Wadsworth, Centre for Economic Performance 2015 Election Analysis No 19, February 2015
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