The unemployment rate amongst Black and Asian Britons is now over 13% (almost twice the figure for whites) and amongst 18-24 year old Blacks and Asians it is over 30% compared with about 17% for whites.
"Black workers are bearing the brunt of Britain’s jobs crisis. It’s a truly desperate situation, with the unemployment rate for workers from ethnic minority backgrounds almost twice the level for white workers.” TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber 2011, TUC Black Workers Conference: A bleak future for black and ethinc minority workers.
Britain has a highly diverse population, in 2004 over 8% of the workforce were from an ethnic minority (over 10% in England). Ethnic minorities accounted for 27.2 % of employment in London in 2004.
It is obvious that where immigration is a small percentage of the population (10% or less) and the population has not reached any crisis point such as exceeding the available resources then, in the long run, immigration will have little effect on employment or wages (see Note 2). It is economically pointless to have further immigration - it just overcrowds us and brings no net benefit - but it would not, in a stable, growing economy, be responsible for unemployment in the long run. But what about massive immigration? What of the short run with massive immigration and a major recession? What happens if we reach our resource limits?
Immigration has exceeded 500,000 a year in recent years of whom over 80,000 go into employment immediately (see Note 1). This rate of influx has continued up to 2010.
Who are these newcomers going to displace from the workforce? Between 1971 and 1991, a period of overall economic growth, it was found that every 100,000 immigrant workers produced about 20,000 unemployed amongst the population already in the country (see Note 3). In London the effect was greater although the authors of government reports are very coy about stating the scale of the effect. Looking at the data from the Home Office report referred to in Notes 2&3 it can be guessed that in London nearly 30% of the jobs taken by immigrants in times that are not recessions are taken from the previously resident population. (20% displacement of jobs was called "very mild" by the report's authors).
In good times about 20-30% of jobs taken by immigrants are taken from residents, in a serious recession, when no new jobs are being created the figure must be between 30% and a 100%. At the present time this will amount to about 30-100,000 jobs per annum. This might account for about 20-30% of the increase in unemployment over the past 5 years (see BBC: UK unemployment increases to 2.62 million). Whose jobs are being taken by the new immigrants? The new immigrants largely take jobs that are already held by ethnic minorities because those ethnic minorities had previously moved into those low skilled, cleaning, transport and other jobs when they were recent immigrants.
It is difficult to get a figure for just how much unemployment is being generated amongst British ethnic minorities by migration but it must be high. Just looking around London it is obvious that care, transport, cleaning and other jobs of this type are being taken by immigrants, nowadays often white immigrants, and these are displacing the largely ethnic minority staff who used to have these jobs.
I would like to have investigated how immigration is directed towards areas that already have large, poor, immigrant populations and how this decreases the life chances of British Black and Asian children but there is too little time.
We must stand up for our fellow countrymen. Not only must the media stop being racist by favouring immigration but upper middle class British Asians must make a stand for their own children in preference to foreigners (See Indian doctors and Asian doctors strike again, work in the NHS being a major destination for immigrants).
See also:
The benefits of immigration to the UK economy
The UK Housing Crisis
Should universities and colleges act as immigration agencies?
Note 1: Changing Patterns of Employment by Ethnic Group and for Migrant Workers. National Report. A. Green, D. Owen and R. Wilson. November 2005
Note 2: "More specifically, if the economy is characterised by a large and heterogenous tradedgoods sector, employment and wages may be insensitive to immigration, at least in the longrun. In such a case, the long run effect of immigration is absorbed by changes in the outputmix. If, on the other hand, there is little flexibility in the output mix of traded goods, thenit may in fact seem more reasonable to expect long run effects of immigration on both wagesand employment." The local labour market effects of immigration in the UK. Christian Dustmann, Francesca Fabbri,Ian Preston, Jonathan Wadsworth. Home Office online report.
Note 3: "The estimated coefficients suggest avery mild effect of immigration on unemployment. According to these estimates, an increasein the immigrant population by one percent of the existing population is associated with anincrease in the percentage of the population unemployed of about 0.17 (for the within groupsestimator) or 0.22 (for the difference estimator)." ibid.Source URL: http://indahrahmadewi.blogspot.com/2011/11/is-pro-immigration-lobby-racist-as-well.html
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"Black workers are bearing the brunt of Britain’s jobs crisis. It’s a truly desperate situation, with the unemployment rate for workers from ethnic minority backgrounds almost twice the level for white workers.” TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber 2011, TUC Black Workers Conference: A bleak future for black and ethinc minority workers.
Britain has a highly diverse population, in 2004 over 8% of the workforce were from an ethnic minority (over 10% in England). Ethnic minorities accounted for 27.2 % of employment in London in 2004.
It is obvious that where immigration is a small percentage of the population (10% or less) and the population has not reached any crisis point such as exceeding the available resources then, in the long run, immigration will have little effect on employment or wages (see Note 2). It is economically pointless to have further immigration - it just overcrowds us and brings no net benefit - but it would not, in a stable, growing economy, be responsible for unemployment in the long run. But what about massive immigration? What of the short run with massive immigration and a major recession? What happens if we reach our resource limits?
Immigration has exceeded 500,000 a year in recent years of whom over 80,000 go into employment immediately (see Note 1). This rate of influx has continued up to 2010.
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Who are these newcomers going to displace from the workforce? Between 1971 and 1991, a period of overall economic growth, it was found that every 100,000 immigrant workers produced about 20,000 unemployed amongst the population already in the country (see Note 3). In London the effect was greater although the authors of government reports are very coy about stating the scale of the effect. Looking at the data from the Home Office report referred to in Notes 2&3 it can be guessed that in London nearly 30% of the jobs taken by immigrants in times that are not recessions are taken from the previously resident population. (20% displacement of jobs was called "very mild" by the report's authors).
In good times about 20-30% of jobs taken by immigrants are taken from residents, in a serious recession, when no new jobs are being created the figure must be between 30% and a 100%. At the present time this will amount to about 30-100,000 jobs per annum. This might account for about 20-30% of the increase in unemployment over the past 5 years (see BBC: UK unemployment increases to 2.62 million). Whose jobs are being taken by the new immigrants? The new immigrants largely take jobs that are already held by ethnic minorities because those ethnic minorities had previously moved into those low skilled, cleaning, transport and other jobs when they were recent immigrants.
It is difficult to get a figure for just how much unemployment is being generated amongst British ethnic minorities by migration but it must be high. Just looking around London it is obvious that care, transport, cleaning and other jobs of this type are being taken by immigrants, nowadays often white immigrants, and these are displacing the largely ethnic minority staff who used to have these jobs.
I would like to have investigated how immigration is directed towards areas that already have large, poor, immigrant populations and how this decreases the life chances of British Black and Asian children but there is too little time.
We must stand up for our fellow countrymen. Not only must the media stop being racist by favouring immigration but upper middle class British Asians must make a stand for their own children in preference to foreigners (See Indian doctors and Asian doctors strike again, work in the NHS being a major destination for immigrants).
See also:
The benefits of immigration to the UK economy
The UK Housing Crisis
Should universities and colleges act as immigration agencies?
Note 1: Changing Patterns of Employment by Ethnic Group and for Migrant Workers. National Report. A. Green, D. Owen and R. Wilson. November 2005
Note 2: "More specifically, if the economy is characterised by a large and heterogenous tradedgoods sector, employment and wages may be insensitive to immigration, at least in the longrun. In such a case, the long run effect of immigration is absorbed by changes in the outputmix. If, on the other hand, there is little flexibility in the output mix of traded goods, thenit may in fact seem more reasonable to expect long run effects of immigration on both wagesand employment." The local labour market effects of immigration in the UK. Christian Dustmann, Francesca Fabbri,Ian Preston, Jonathan Wadsworth. Home Office online report.
Note 3: "The estimated coefficients suggest avery mild effect of immigration on unemployment. According to these estimates, an increasein the immigrant population by one percent of the existing population is associated with anincrease in the percentage of the population unemployed of about 0.17 (for the within groupsestimator) or 0.22 (for the difference estimator)." ibid.Source URL: http://indahrahmadewi.blogspot.com/2011/11/is-pro-immigration-lobby-racist-as-well.html
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