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Political pledges to cut immigration `will mean a drop in living standards'
30 May 2017
The LSE study also states that immigration is not to blame for lower pay and prospects of low skilled workers. Academics behind the research said lower pay and prospects for UK workers was the result of the 2008 economic crash rather than immigration. Professor Jonathan Wadsworth, author of the report, said: “It is very difficult to find much evidence that immigration has had a negative effects on many sectors of the economy.
“Any adverse experiences of UK-born workers with regard to jobs and wages are much more closely associated with the biggest economic crash for more than 80 years.”
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Election Analyses series; ‘Immigration and the UK Economy’ Jonathan Wadsworth. May 2017. http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/ea039.pdf
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CEP Election Analyses series http://cep.lse.ac.uk/election2017/default.asp