Seems far from pointless to me, in light of your recent claim that current overall rates of "low skilled" migration were an existential economic threat to the European welfare state.
At the time I suggested that negative or positive, the economic effects of migration on European economies would be dwarfed by other factorsâfor example the systemic shocks caused since 2008 by the global financial crisis and the implementation of austerity regimes.
That article cites more than one recent study putting the measured fiscal impact of all recent migration to the UK at less than ±1% by GDP.Â
According to some other data provided, the UK currently sits roughly in the middle of the distribution from positive to negative, among the gamut of European nations, of the fiscal impacts of migration.Â
How can such a modest economic impact substantiate your claim that current migrant flows have a fundamental incompatibility with an expansive welfare state?Â
