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Migrants Have Contributed £25Bn To The Economy Since 2000.
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UCL's Center for Research and Analysis of Migration has recently published a long-term study on the economic contribution of immigrants to the UK.
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Immigrants to the UK since 1999 have been 45% less likely to claim benefits and 3% less likely to live in social housing.
This is not just explainable by immigrants moving to the UK when they are older and more financially stable - immigrants compared to natives of the same age are 21% less likely to receive benefits.
It also found that migrants from outside the EEA tended to claim more in benefits than they claimed in taxes.
Personally, I predict that this report will be ignored by just about everyone in UK politics. The Great Braindead British Public seems allergic to anyone associated with book-learning or academic study.
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Immigrants to the UK since 1999 have been 45% less likely to claim benefits and 3% less likely to live in social housing.
This is not just explainable by immigrants moving to the UK when they are older and more financially stable - immigrants compared to natives of the same age are 21% less likely to receive benefits.
It also found that migrants from outside the EEA tended to claim more in benefits than they claimed in taxes.
Personally, I predict that this report will be ignored by just about everyone in UK politics. The Great Braindead British Public seems allergic to anyone associated with book-learning or academic study.
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Hi- this earlier thread also covers this
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I doubt the findings will change many people's minds on this issue.
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I doubt the findings will change many people's minds on this issue.
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Sloopy, aren't you too late? Whatever his past avatar, AOG now choses to be seen as, or associated with, John Bull, a character who, in this representation, dates from the 1760s. He is of yeoman stock, and thoroughly English and defiant to all foreigners, who he patently regards as a threat.
I choose to be represented by a Hungarian sheepdog, and a bitch at that. I make no further comment. What the rest of you choose, well, that is for you !
I choose to be represented by a Hungarian sheepdog, and a bitch at that. I make no further comment. What the rest of you choose, well, that is for you !
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My opinion is that the majority of the British public are stupid, and usually unwilling to actually think. I base this on the interactions I have with people and on the constant stream of evidence that the public continues to think things that are almost certainly wrong. I make no apologies for saying so.
AOG- I guess we have different priorities. I'm willing to have a degree of trust in professional researchers, largely because I know them and I understand the process of peer-review that accompanies research in the social sciences. You're willing to trust the press.
My opinion is that the majority of the British public are stupid, and usually unwilling to actually think. I base this on the interactions I have with people and on the constant stream of evidence that the public continues to think things that are almost certainly wrong. I make no apologies for saying so.
AOG- I guess we have different priorities. I'm willing to have a degree of trust in professional researchers, largely because I know them and I understand the process of peer-review that accompanies research in the social sciences. You're willing to trust the press.
People are already invested in this debate - research will not change the opinions of those who's mind's are set.
Are we expecting Nigel Farage to issue a press release saying 'Oops sorry you were right I was wrong will disband UKIP this evening'?
So people will just appeal to cynicism and attack the researchers some with clever attacks others will just say 'Ah you can say anything with statistics'
Until the stats reinforce their position!
Are we expecting Nigel Farage to issue a press release saying 'Oops sorry you were right I was wrong will disband UKIP this evening'?
So people will just appeal to cynicism and attack the researchers some with clever attacks others will just say 'Ah you can say anything with statistics'
Until the stats reinforce their position!
I listened to the author of the report on the radio yesterday.
When quizzed on some of his figures he said he had taken into account
that as they got older they would get better, higher paid jobs and therefore
be paying even more in taxes, etc. I'm no professor but I could foresee several
different scenarios, perhaps more likely ones, that he chose to ignore as they didn't fit
in with his agenda.
When quizzed on some of his figures he said he had taken into account
that as they got older they would get better, higher paid jobs and therefore
be paying even more in taxes, etc. I'm no professor but I could foresee several
different scenarios, perhaps more likely ones, that he chose to ignore as they didn't fit
in with his agenda.
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