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Recent immigrants to UK pay in more than they take in benefits - study
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LONDON Tue Nov 5, 2013 1:59pm GMT
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By Costas Pitas LONDON (Reuters) - Recent immigrants to Britain pay
more in taxes than they take out in benefits, a study on the impact of
immigration said on Tuesday, and another study argued the influx of
skilled immigrants was correlated to an...
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LONDON (Reuters) - Recent immigrants to Britain pay more in taxes than
they take out in benefits, a study on the impact of immigration said on
Tuesday, and another study argued the influx of skilled immigrants was
correlated to an increase in productivity.
Anti-immigration feeling in Britain has been fuelled recently by
warnings in the right-leaning media about new arrivals of so-called
benefit-scrounging immigrants claiming state handouts and free
healthcare.
According to a wide-ranging study based on data from the Office for
National Statistics' Labour Force Survey, immigrants arriving from
euro-area countries between 2001 and 2011 paid 34 percent more in tax
than they received in benefits, while those from other countries paid
in about two percent more than they took out.
All immigrants were 45 percent less likely to claim from the state than
"native", British-born citizens, the report showed.
"If you look at those immigrants who came after 1999, both EA (Euro
Area) and non-EA immigrants have made a positive fiscal contribution,"
Christian Dustmann, co-author of the report from University College
London, told Reuters.
"Over the same period, native-born individuals basically took more out
of the welfare system than they put in, in terms of taxes."
Prime Minister David Cameron has made immigration policy an important
plank of his government in the face of the perceived threat that the UK
Independence Party (UKIP) is siphoning off support ahead of a
parliamentary election in 2015.
UKIP, which campaigns for Britain to leave the EU and for a halt to
"open door" immigration, made sweeping gains in local elections in May,
winning almost one in four votes, mostly at the expense of Cameron's
Conservatives.
Census data shows nearly four million migrants settled in England and
Wales between 2001 and 2011 against a total population of 56.1 million,
the vast majority of Britain's estimated current population of 63.7
million.
Cameron has pledged to slash net migration - currently at 176,000 a
year - to the "tens of thousands" by 2015.
A report from a leading macroeconomic think-tank, the National
Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR), argued there was a
"positive and significant association" between higher employment of
migrants and productivity.
The NIESR's research, which included interviews with employers and
focus groups as well as data analysis, showed employers see migrant
workers as generally more highly skilled than British-born workers and
able to fill gaps in the labour market.
The report associated a 10 percent increase in immigrant share in
employment between 1997 and 2007 with a 0.6 to 0.9 percent increase in
productivity during the period, but said further research was needed to
establish the causal relationship between the two.
"While employers see skilled migration as most important in meeting
their needs, this was at odds with the public's image of a migrant
worker as in low skilled, low paid work."
The report also said employers saw immigrants as a way of adding to
their skillset in the workplace rather than a way of replacing
British-born workers.
Britain's Conservative-led government has sought to cut overall
immigration whilst encouraging high-skilled workers from economies such
as India and China.
Cameron's spokesman said on Sunday the government had scrapped a plan
to force people from certain African and Asian countries to pay a cash
bond in return for a visitor's visa to deter them overstaying.
(Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)
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Raymond.Vermont wrote:
Who are these recent immigrants and what are their numbers?
Usual example of `vague' being employed by the centrist liberal
apologists, for turning the country into a socially re-engineered non
entity of a province of Federal Europe.
Presumably non `recent' immigrants are the ones whom have given
immigrants a bad image... Possibly the same ones that festoon our once
green and pleasant lands with completely alien looking structures,
(somehow granted planning approvals) in order to worship the cult of
Eastern warlordism?
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