16:47Theresa May’s claim that EU migration has hit the lowest paid the hardest has been directly challenged by a survey of the latest evidence published by the Welsh government on Thursday. One of the authors of the Bank of England study, Sir Stephen Nickell, said in January that it had been misrepresented as showing migration had led to a 10% cut in the wage levels of the lowest paid. He told the Independent the impact on wages was “very small” and low-skilled workers was “infinitesimally small”. The Welsh government study also cites a 2016 London School of Economics paper which also found “that there is little overall adverse effects of immigration to the UK on wages and the employment of the UK-born”. But it also rejects arbitrary targets or quotas and advocates much stronger enforcement of existing minimum wage and other powers to improve the wages and conditions of the lower paid.

Source: The Guardian September 07, 2017 08:18 UTC