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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.
NickCJ-
I'm still not convinced by the argument that links investment in skills to migration.
Does there need to be this link for it to be a good idea to encourage business to invest in skills, training and pay and conditions as opposed to ship in agency workers from abroad?
Essentially what starmer is saying is "sure, lets continue to use international nurses but lets also start reducing our dependency on them by making it cheaper and better rewarded to become a nurse and so we can help a few of those 1.5m people get back to work".
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I'm still not convinced by the argument that links investment in skills to migration.
I don't know if there is evidence on this or not - it doesn't seem to me to be the same point as whether immigration can affect wages (where from my reading of the studies I'd summarise the effects as being mixed, overall probably neutral or very slightly positive, with some winners and losers within that but all quite small effects).
But isn't part of the point that, rhetorically, govt makes the link between migration and skills / UK workforce. Starmer therefore needs to address both parts if he's talking about one - if he disagrees with anything on migration, he needs to be clear to say "but that doesn't mean I don't want workers to be trained + more invested in them". As otherwise he just gets attacked for not supporting training of UK workers
Stonehedge
andyfallsoff
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/