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Sunday Herald (Scotland):
Anton Muscatelli: Immigrationisn't making us poorer ? but scaremongering about it might

4 June 2017

Firstly, there is simply no evidence that EU immigration has impacted negatively on the living standards of UK workers. A new study by the London School of Economics (LSE) has shown that there is no apparent link between changes in the real wages of UK nationals and changes in immigration – wages of UK-born workers changed at much the same rate in areas with high immigration as in areas with a low change in immigration.

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