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You're overstating this argument and using some quite divisive rhetoric to boot. Nobody is "dumping" anything. Some types of workers, most notably existing imm
by richmarr 9y ago
You're overstating this argument and using some quite divisive rhetoric to boot. Nobody is "dumping" anything.
Some types of workers, most notably existing immigrants do suffer... in the short term... particularly from migrants from outside the EU.
https://fullfact.org/immigration/immigration-and-jobs-labour-market-effects-immigration/ https://fullfact.org/immigration/immigration-and-jobs-labour...
I think this study is the key, to be honest "Research from University College London finds that an inflow of immigrants the size of 1% of the UK-born population leads to a 0.6% decline in the wages of the 5% lowest paid workers and to an increase in the wages of higher paid workers." (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctpb21/Cpapers/CDP_03_08.pdf http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctpb21/Cpapers/CDP_03_08.pdf)
The actual effect is not large, but the relative increase in distance between very low earners and middle/upper-middle earners is what offends... and the likes of Murdoch are only too happy to stir up that resentment in exchange for keeping their tax loopholes.