Immigration and Employment: Anatomy of a media story
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Employment statistics released last week have provided an immigration bonanza for the rightwing press.
This short paper attempts to disentangle the statistics from the interpretation, and to explore how this story came to take the shape it has. By doing so, it aims to draw a few lessons for policy.
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