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That peak employment graph is a fascinating distillation of 21st-century populism in a nutshell: employment in the UK for UK-born residents is at 75%, while ove
by Doches 10y ago
That peak employment graph is a fascinating distillation of 21st-century populism in a nutshell: employment in the UK for UK-born residents is at 75%, while overall is up at ~82%. I'm usually pretty allergic to Daily Mail-type scapegoating, but that's a...surprisingly interesting metric.
- T-A 10y agoI'm not sure if the chart entries labeled EU27 include the UK-born. Anyway, higher employment rates should be expected among immigrants who come to work; there are going to be few pensioners and probably fewer children among them than among the natives (as opposed to refugees who are primarily running away from something; hence the lower employment rates among non-EU immigrants).