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NickCJ in reply to @Stonehedge

a pragmatic position that recognises some labour pressures are genuine

What are these "genuine labour pressures", though? I really don't see the economic evidence.

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andyfallsoff in reply to @NickCJ

Doesn’t the evidence suggest there is a negative effect of immigration on lower paid workers - albeit fairly minor (<1%) and probably in average no effect overall (as higher paid workers more likely to benefit)?

https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/the-labour-market-effects-of-immigration/

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NickCJ in reply to @andyfallsoff

Thanks for the link. Perhaps I am going too far to say that there is no economic evidence, then.

I'm still not convinced by the argument that links investment in skills to migration. It also abdicates the State's responsibility to drive productivity growth from the supply-side.

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