Keyboard worrier

Saturday, July 02, 2016

Economics and migration

"In Britain new migrants from the EU contribute more to the exchequer than they take out." - The Economist, today.

In my latest piece on TalkMarkets, I ask some questions about that assertion. Can anyone help with facts?


READER: PLEASE CLICK THE REACTION BELOW - THANKS!

All original material is copyright of its author. Fair use permitted. Contact via comment. Unless indicated otherwise, all internet links accessed at time of writing. Nothing here should be taken as personal advice, financial or otherwise. No liability is accepted for third-party content, whether incorporated in or linked to this blog; or for unintentional error and inaccuracy. The blog author may have, or intend to change, a personal position in any stock or other kind of investment mentioned.

2 comments:

A K Haart said...

This feels like one of those questions where there is no answer. No doubt a range of answers could be constructed from a range of facts, but many important "facts" are probably inaccessible or indeterminate.

For example, a primary school in Derby with over fifty percent of pupils not having English as their first language. Many are not familiar with formal education either and don’t want to be there. How does one feed those facts into wider answers?

Questions without answers feed political processes though, and that may be their ultimate purpose.

Sackerson said...

It's as though we're being fed authoritative answers without evidence. There's such a lack of trust now.