How Did EU Immigrants Affect Income and Wealth Inequality in the UK?
1 Pages Posted: 2 Jul 2016
Date Written: July 1, 2016
Abstract
We investigate the effect of immigration to the UK showing that immigration is responsible for less than 16% of the increase in UK income and wealth inequality over the last 25 years. The contribution from EU immigrants is less than 10%, and less than 5% comes from EU8 EU2 (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia).
Keywords: immigration, inequality, Brexit
JEL Classification: D63, J61
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Berman, Yonatan and Aste, Tomaso, How Did EU Immigrants Affect Income and Wealth Inequality in the UK? (July 1, 2016). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2803317 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2803317
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