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How Immigration Affects The Labour Market

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Here are the main findings of the research.
According to Manacorda, Manning and Wadsworth, UK has been seen ''over the past fifteen years'' a ''huge increase'' of ''individuals coming to live and work there'' (Journal of the European economic association, P 120),
Adding that ''By the mid 2000s 12 % of the working population'' are not born in England.
Manacorda et al have, with the help of many statistics, tried to find the answer to what the effects of immigration on the labor market are. They have come to a conclusion that ''the main impact'' of the increasing number of immigrants ''in the UK is on the wages'' of those immigrants who ''already'' lived here and claims that immigration has actually reduced the wages of immigrants and especially those who are well educated, ''with little discernible effect …show more content…

(Manacorda et al, 2012, P 126).

Furthermore, Dustmann Preston and Fabbri claim that their could be some ''negative effects'' of immigration on the British labor market and that this is nowadays, one of the biggest issues which ''concerns in the public debate on immigration'' (The Economic Journal(2005) , P 325 )
Dustman et al claimed that there was ''little evidence of overall effects on employment'' for people born in the UK and on wages ,'' but some difference according to

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