UK Jobs Not Affected By Emigration

Research that has been done in the UK suggests that emigration does not play a roll in lowering the amount of jobs for other people. Experts say that there is no evidence or proof that large scale emigration has had a negative affect on the wages or on employment.

This debate was brought about by many people who claim that emigrants from eastern Europe have, not only been taking up the available jobs, but also been lowering the wages by working for less. Many protesters coined the phrase, British jobs for British workers. After studying certain points, many experts from the Institute for Public Policy Research think that emigration could have had a positive impact on the economy, or at least had no affect on it at all. Although they point out that if there was a good impact on the economy, it would have been small, it is still a far way away from the damage that most people believe that emigration is causing.

The research went on to point out that less than one percent of emigrants would have affected wages. Out of that one percent, the wages that had been affected would have only been affected by about 0.3 percent.

During the research, the experts at the Institute of Public Policy Research found out that the age that people leave school had a much bigger impact on wages than emigration. People who left school between the ages of 17 and 19 saw a ten percent increase in wages over the people who left school around the age of 16, which is the minimum leaving age. That would mean that these people saw an increase of about £24 a week.