http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/14/opinion/edsriskand.php
There is a pretty good balance between highly skilled immigrants arriving in Britain to stay and native Brits leaving for foreign shores, e.g. Spain.
Is this sort of 'churning' good or bad? Shouldn't people be free to chase down jobs where they find them?
Immigrant workers from Europe (specificaly Eastern Europe)
receive all of the benefits of earning in pounds and spending
in their own currency.
The British working class face stiffer competition for jobs and
lower wages, making progress onto the property ladder neigh
impossible.
I believe it is far more likely that an immigrant worker in Britain
will eventually have the option of buying his/her own property
than a British national would.
How is that fair?
Originally posted by Thequ1ckThis is the problem I have with using foreign workers too. It is unfair competition in the local labour market in most cases because the foreign worker generally lives somewhere significantly cheaper than the UK and the resident UK citizen can not compete on price. In many cases, particularly with off-shoring it is not even legally possible for the UK citizen to move to e.g. India to compete on level terms.
Immigrant workers from Europe (specificaly Eastern Europe)
receive all of the benefits of earning in pounds and spending
in their own currency.
The British working class face stiffer competition for jobs and
lower wages, making progress onto the property ladder neigh
impossible.
I believe it is far more likely that an immigrant worker in Britain
wi ...[text shortened]... e the option of buying his/her own property
than a British national would.
How is that fair?
I have no objection to a foreign work force who are actually resident, and pay taxes, in the country in which they work.
Across Europe at least, the introduction of the Euro in the UK would be a step towards solving this problem.
"....Britain has been fueled by immigrant workers coming to fill unmet labor demand."
Basic economics --
Supply and demand is perhaps one of the most fundamental concepts of economics and it is the backbone of a market economy. Demand refers to how much (quantity) of a product or service is desired by buyers. The quantity demanded is the amount of a product people are willing to buy at a certain price; the relationship between price and quantity demanded is known as the demand relationship. Supply represents how much the market can offer. The quantity supplied refers to the amount of a certain good producers are willing to supply when receiving a certain price. The correlation between price and how much of a good or service is supplied to the market is known as the supply relationship. Price, therefore, is a reflection of supply and demand.
With this in mind, I would say a fairer rendition would be
"....Britain has been fueled by immigrant workers coming to fill a low cost labor supply."
Originally posted by spruce112358People should be allowed to live in any country that will have them. I for one plan on getting the hell out of Britain as soon as financially possible. I´d hate to live the rest of my life there.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/14/opinion/edsriskand.php
There is a pretty good balance between highly skilled immigrants arriving in Britain to stay and native Brits leaving for foreign shores, e.g. Spain.
Is this sort of 'churning' good or bad? Shouldn't people be free to chase down jobs where they find them?