Does the Indigenous population of the UK benefit economically from immigration?
As an academic economist, you should know that empiricism is difficult to apply in respect to demography – population dynamics dictate a variable response from those that comprise such populations when they are confronted with economic pressures such as availability of work, existing labour dynamics, projected future expansions in new fields of industrial or commercial endeavour, and many other vicissitudes and vagaries. For the layman (and.please do not think, layman, that I am looking down on you, or patronising you), the paragraph above translates to ‘one cannot predict the future from the past’. Before I can answer this question fully, I would need to see citations – references to the sources of your information. I would need to have titles of these serious studies that you claim to have read. Without such verification, your claims are ephemera – will of the wisps subject to the whims of unreferenced prejudice. The most that I can say is, that from Marxist dialectic, new immigrants
The immigrants definately benefit. The problem is the government can’t control the influx of immigrants meaning that the population is sky rocketing. We do benefit from skilled immigrants (the polish) and the ones who’ll do the jobs we hate (indians as taxi drivers, cleaners etc.) but you also have a great bunch of freeloaders, (and this doesn’t just apply to immigrants) who’ve discovered there is a bunch of free money the government hands out in the form of benefits, (the dole being one of them.) Also if you have kids you are given money, which compounds the issue. Sure stores receive more revenue because there are more customers, but to counter that there is greater demand for jobs so employers can essentially lower wages and replace their old, more expensive, staff with cheaper labour. An advantage of this could be that it’ll reduce outsourcing to the countries these immigrants came from in the first place and secure some of the positions that have been disappearing over the years,
Hi! Let me respond from direct personal experience and the history of my community. Where I live was, in the C19th, the “Workshop of the World”. Local people were not the wealthiest, but they were well fed and comfortable and created wealth on a global scale. The local industries (steel, cotton, railway etc) demanded so many labourers, that people were encouraged to come here from all five continents. It was a happy, vibrant community with what was for a while the biggest theme park in the world to cater for the thousands of workers. In the post-war C20th, those industries started to decline and by the 1970’s the population had dispersed across the world in a vast migration of workers looking to fiond work for their skills. One small part of the community, for example, went from 120,000 to 12,000 inhabitants, and this poulation depletion was reflected across a far wider area. Ours bacame the most disadvantaged area in western Europe, marked by highg unemployment, death from old industr
