Many people think that migrants take jobs away from citizens, reduce wages or both. Others argue that immigrants benefit the economy because they take risks and start businesses. In three short videos below Alan Manning explains how migration affects your job prospects, presents the data from the UK and the world, and gives insights on managing migration in light of this evidence. Ultimately, he argues that there is no inevitable negative effect of immigration on the quality of people’s lives in the UK.
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Notes:
- This post repeats the one published on LSE Brexit. It appeared originally at Migration Matters.
- The post gives the views of the author, not the position of LSE Business Review or the London School of Economics.
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Alan Manning is Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics and Director of the Community Programme at the Centre for Economic Performance at LSE. His research generally covers labour markets, with a focus on imperfect competition (monopsony), minimum wages, job polarisation, immigration, and gender. On immigration, his interests expand beyond the economy to issues such as social housing, minority groups, and identity. Alan holds a DPhil in Economics from Oxford University. For more on Alan’s work, visit his personal website.
Immigration and migration has both positive and negative impact on the receiving country. In recent years Immigration / EU migration in the UK is simply a mechanism for driving down wages (big businesses let of the hook from paying UK workers decent wages or training staff). Businesses resort to importing people from EU27 european countries experiencing high unemployment and weak economies.
In case of low-skilled and unskilled EU workers. Taxpayer are left subsidising big businesses by having to provide all of the infrastructure for migrant workers and pay in-work benefits. The taxpayers lose out, the communities blighted by migrant workers lose out and the people benefitting? are the 1%. And where people
It is true that migrant remove employments from nationals, decrease compensation or both but it also helps to increase economic and take benefits. Although setting up a business is full of risk but if successful, many economic advantages one can take.