Thursday, 23 February 2017

Immigration is falling. Be careful what you wish for..

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Today’s immigration figures are the first with any meaningful data after the Brexit vote. And they show – as I predicted back in August –...
Thursday, 2 February 2017

A(nother) debate on immigration: how about starting with the facts?

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Launching the Home Affairs Select Committee inquiry on immigration, Yvette Cooper called for a "national debate" claiming that im...
Monday, 16 January 2017

The weather is not the climate: predicting the economic impacts of Brexit

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Interviewed for ITN/Channel 4 New s, I was asked – very reasonably – why anyone should listen to economists’ views on the economic impacts ...
Wednesday, 4 January 2017

My predictions for 2017 (from the FT Economists' survey)

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The Financial Times annual survey of leading British economists' predictions, views and forecasts for the year ahead was publish...
Monday, 17 October 2016

Troubled Families - anatomy of a policy disaster

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[IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: This blog represents my personal view only: not that of NIESR or of the evaluation consortium led by Ecorys] Peopl...
Sunday, 12 May 2013

The impacts of immigration: my summary of the evidence (video)

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My summary of the economic evidence on immigration: labour markets, benefits, public services and the long-term impacts on growth and produ...
Monday, 6 May 2013

White flight: "600,000 have quit London in a decade". The true figure is far higher

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The Daily Mail is rarely knowingly understated when it comes to a scare story, especially about immigration. However, sometimes ignorance of...