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RAHEEM KASSAM AND OLIVER LANE3 Dec 2015225
Contributions by migrants to Britain’s economy are “modest” compared to their long term costs, while mass migration depresses wages and harms GDP growth, a respected academic has found.

Published by the Institute for the Study of Civil Society (Civitas), the new pamphlet The Costs And Benefits Of Large-Scale Immigration is a major study of the modern mass migration phenomenon.

Written by King’s College Cambridge fellow and Emeritus Professor of Economics Robert Rowthorn, the report finds serious discrepancies between the claims made by left-wing, and “centrist” establishment politicians and the reality of mass migration.

While mass migration will drive almost all population growth in the next 75 years, the growth will not deliver any improvement of living conditions or economic growth, says Prof. Rowthorn. As Britain’s population swells by a remarkable 30 million by 2080, GDP per capita — the measure of wealth enjoyed by individuals — will only enjoy marginal growth as wages stagnate.

This wage stagnation, or even a real-terms decrease in earnings, will be felt primarily by working class Britons as oversupply of labour from new migrants pushes down wages. The report also put paid to the myth that migrants were important to an economy, by paying for the pensions of retired British.

The opposite is true, finds Prof. Rowthorn. In the case of the so-called ‘dependency rate’ — the number of pensioners to every 100 working age people — not only did the already high figure not improve, the amount of migration required to keep the level stable continues to spiral as time goes on. In fact for every one percent reduction in the ratio achieved, Britain would have to import some 5.3 million new people.

Any progress is eventually lost as working-age migrants get older, retire, and do not return home — requiring a whole new generation of migrants coming to Britain to care for them in turn.

On this phenomenon, Prof. Rowthorn writes: “Many people would consider it better to settle for much less immigration and much slower population growth at the cost of slightly faster ageing”.

Far better, he suggests, is to raise the retirement age slightly instead, and spare Britain tens of millions of migrants and descendents of migrants over the coming decades.

there are plenty of trade schools to attend. i did a quick google search here in cleveland and over 100 came up. it's not that we need more trade schools, its that we need the workers who are in their 40's and 50's who were displaced due to the great recession and technological advances to re-tool and learn a new skill. many of these people worked manufacturing jobs or lets say on an automobile assembly line and lost their jobs due to robotics. these individuals were in the middle of their lives and comfortable, looking forward to retirement in a few years. now they face the reality that starting over from scratch and more likely then not having less earning power then they used to has them frustrated... so much so that many of these displaced workers have given up and dropped out of the job market.