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**Cvo1iRT0** · 06-30-2007, 02:22 AM

Originally posted by Drogue

US =/ UK in this regard. You have lower tax, less public services paid for by the taxpayer and less of an extreme demand for land. I agree, immigration in the US is generally of a positive effect. I'm a lot less inclined to agree that it has for the UK as well. Well you'd be wrong.

There's been a wealth of research into migration from A8 accession countries, all of which has found no employment effects of migration, and a positive impact on growth (edit: saw your later post - yes it's per capita). Check out the IPPR website, and the HMT website if you want references, and there is a nice report published by DWP - author Sarah Lemos. There's also a literature on A8 migration and dependency ratios from a pensions perspective (where population growth is a clear plus) but I'm less familiar with that.

That's just the headline research, there's also stuff like BoE have regularly cited migration as keeping interest rates down.

As an economist you should be better than this.

06-30-2007, 02:22 AM	#20
Cvo1iRT0 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 378 Senior Member	Originally posted by Drogue US =/ UK in this regard. You have lower tax, less public services paid for by the taxpayer and less of an extreme demand for land. I agree, immigration in the US is generally of a positive effect. I'm a lot less inclined to agree that it has for the UK as well. Well you'd be wrong. There's been a wealth of research into migration from A8 accession countries, all of which has found no employment effects of migration, and a positive impact on growth (edit: saw your later post - yes it's per capita). Check out the IPPR website, and the HMT website if you want references, and there is a nice report published by DWP - author Sarah Lemos. There's also a literature on A8 migration and dependency ratios from a pensions perspective (where population growth is a clear plus) but I'm less familiar with that. That's just the headline research, there's also stuff like BoE have regularly cited migration as keeping interest rates down. As an economist you should be better than this.
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