Migrants Score Over Natives
Nigel Morris
LONDON, Oct. 17: Migrant workers contributed (pounds sterling) 6 billion to the country’s economic growth last year and earned higher wages than their British counterparts, Home Office figures revealed yesterday. The study concluded that new arrivals were harder-working, brought sought-after skills and paid more in tax than they used in public services. The population rose by 189,000 last year, with 574,000 migrants arriving and 385,000 people leaving. The government figures suggested migration was throwing a life-line to an economy suffering skills shortages and struggling to support a growing bill for pensions.
It was calculated that new migration accounted for about one-sixth of Britain’s economic growth. The home office said the newcomers had “high levels of skills than the average UK natives” and that employers found migrant workers “reliable and hard-working”. It reported that migrants earned on an average (pounds sterling) 424 per week last year, and as a result paid more per head in tax and VAT than Britons.
~ The Independent
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