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Maybe, many of those natives leaving every year do so because of the extra competition with the immigrants: bringing people over causes lower salaries and highe
by bernawil 4y ago
Maybe, many of those natives leaving every year do so because of the extra competition with the immigrants: bringing people over causes lower salaries and higher costs of housing.
What's worse is that, those leaving presumably are capable of making it in "better" economies. So in pure GDP-per capita-producing terms, you just exchanged some natives for worse performers.
That's what happens when you're not in the top of the totem of the immigration market.
- Retric 4y agoThe majority of people leaving the UK were immigrants themselves. It’s fairly common globally for immigrants to then move to another country. But that’s been especially true in the EU.
- bernawil 4y agoAccording to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), in the year ending June 2020, an estimated 673,000 people emigrated from the UK. This includes both UK-born and non-UK-born individuals. Of the total emigrants, approximately 316,000 (47%) were UK-born, and approximately 357,000 (53%) were non-UK-born. The non-UK-born emigrants included both non-British citizens and British citizens who were born outside the UK. So it's almost 50/50. Looks actually worse than I'd imagined.
- Retric 4y agoYes, though 2020 was a real outlier for hopefully obvious reasons. The 2019 breakdown was 397k emigrants of which 131k where British, 151k EU, and 115k non-EU. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/internationalmigration/bulletins/migrationstatisticsquarterlyreport/november2019/pdf https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populati... It’s going to be interesting to see how things settle down in a post Brexit and COVID UK.
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