Re:The strange case of Britain’s demise
by astrange on Sunday December 18, 2022 @12:15PM
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The papers I linked are empirical evidence, not assumptions. There’s two specifically on the UK that find no evidence of this.
They also find that skilled immigration systems don’t always work, because all immigrants tend to be unusually highly educated anyway, but also significantly downskill the jobs they choose after arriving. So you’d expect them to always compete with low end natives, but in fact they don’t because they mainly compete with other immigrants instead. And “compete” isn’t how labor works anyway, since all workers are also customers.
Re:The strange case of Britain’s demise
by mytailorisrich on Sunday December 18, 2022 @12:42PM
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"Negative effect at low-end of spectrum", which is what I wrote...
> because all immigrants tend to be unusually highly educated anyway
That's obviously not true.
Things do not work out so great if immigration isn't balanced.
In the UK there has been a huge influx of unskilled or low skilled workers from Eastern Europe that has put a big dampener on wages at the low end of the spectrum.
One of the reasons the UK has a productivity issue is that cheap labour.