Immigration to Britain has not increased unemployment or reduced wages, study finds

[The Don]

Immigration to Britain has not increased unemployment or reduced wages, a major new study has concluded

Researchers at the London School of Economics looked at the levels of immigration to each of Britain’s counties, and compared it to the unemployment rate in the same area across the same period.

They found that there was no connection between how much immigration a county had seen between 2004 and 2012 and the area’s level of unemployment.

There was no correlation between the unemployment rate and the level of migration The study also looked at whether migrants coming to an area had led to a fall in wage levels and found no evidence that this was the case.

Many areas that saw huge increases in immigration had seen wages rise and unemployment fall, while many areas which had seen no immigration had suffered from falling wages and rises in employment.

On average, immigration had a neutral effect on the employment and wage rates – neither increasing nor decreasing them.

The economists also specifically whether lower-skilled workers had seen their wages impacted, and whether migration a rise in young people out of work or training.

These areas were examined because popular perception is that migrant workers compete with the young for low wage jobs.

They said they found “no evidence” that the young or low skilled had been impacted, and called for further researcher in why anti-immigrant perceptions were still prevalent despite the evidence.

Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-10075047.html

How many studies will it take to prove that immigration isn't the massive mountain certain people would have you believe? Although I suspect the facts are irrelevant to those people.

Thoughts?

[-:Undertaker:-]

Tell that to the working classes who have had wages undercut during boom times.

In any case, immigration isn't all about economic impact it's more so about cultural and social impact in these areas.

How many studies will it take to prove that immigration isn't the massive mountain certain people would have you believe?

Yes it is.

It was only the other day that the Conservatives announced plans to build 200,000 houses by 2020 to address the housing shortage, ignoring the fact that net immigration is running at over 250,000 every year. How can you and fellow travellers claim it has no affect and everything is just fine? Delusional.

[The Don]

Tell that to the working classes who have had wages undercut during boom times.

In any case, immigration isn't all about economic impact it's more so about cultural and social impact in these areas.

At least try and pretend to have read the article.

And people talking a different language on the bus isn't a reasonable argument.

[-:Undertaker:-]

At least try and pretend to have read the article.

And people talking a different language on the bus isn't a reasonable argument.

Look hun, if you and the politicians love nobody in your area talking your own language, if you love schools where the children can't speak a word of English, if you love enriched areas where gang rapes take place and there's radicalisation: then please please please move into these areas. Or move abroad.

But don't throw the working classes into it and the public at large when we never asked for it.

[The Don]

Look hun, if you and the politicians love nobody in your area talking your own language, if you love schools where the children can't speak a word of English, if you love enriched areas where gang rapes take place and there's radicalisation: then please please please move into these areas. Or move abroad.

But don't throw the working classes into it and the public at large when we never asked for it.

Bit of a jump from people talking a foreign language to gang rapes, no?

[-:Undertaker:-]

Bit of a jump from people talking a foreign language to gang rapes, no?

It's all what you've brought on the British people with mass immigration and multiculturalism.

[The Don]

It's all what you've brought on the British people with mass immigration and multiculturalism.

Yes because Britain was crime free before we let all those bloody foreigners in!

[-:Undertaker:-]

Yes because Britain was crime free before we let all those bloody foreigners in!

We certainly didn't have thousands of English girls being passed around by Asian gangs whilst the authorities covered it up to not 'upset' followers of the RoP.

[The Don]

We certainly didn't have thousands of English girls being passed around by Asian gangs whilst the authorities covered it up to not 'upset' followers of the RoP.

We didn't have child grooming before asians came here?

[-:Undertaker:-]

We didn't have child grooming before asians came here?

I literally can't deal with this upside down thinking. It's the same kind of blinkered and warped thinking that allowed Rotherham to happen in the first place.

Last week, Denis MacShane, the former MP for Rotherham, admitted he might have not done enough about child sexual exploitation by Asian men in his constituency because he was a "Guardian-reading liberal leftie". MacShane, who resigned as an MP in 2012 over expenses fraud for which he was later jailed for six months, told the BBC he was never directly approached by anyone with allegations of child abuse during his 18 years as an MP.

Yet he "probably" didn't do as much as he could have done and should have "burrowed into" the issue, he said. "I think there was a culture of not wanting to rock the multicultural community boat, if I may put it like that."

You are Denis MacNoShame and I claim my five pounds.