According to independent economists, enhanced unemployment in UK is not caused by rising immigration. Also, the respected National Institute of Economic and Social Research claims that an influx of foreign nationals into the UK is not associated with rising joblessness in Great Britain, even at times of recession. Moreover, it is suggested that immigration might have positive influence on UK economic, especially during periods of lower GDP growth.
The Home Office-appointed migration advisory committee reported that immigration to UK does not cause enhancement in violent crime levels. Foreign skilled workers usually does not commit crimes such as burglary, which might contribute to falling crime levels.
Rise of migration from Eastern and Central Europe has been observed especially since 2004 (European Union enlargement). MigrationWatch, an anti-immigration group reported that Youth unemployment in UK has increased by almost 450,000 since that time (now is over 1 million).
According to critics of MiggrationWatch, Youth unemployment started to increase earlier, when the Soviet bloc nationals (include Poland) were permitted to enter free the UK to work.
The director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research and former chief economist at the Cabinet Office, Jonathan Portes says that the highest levels of unemployment were observed between 2008 and 2009, while a lot of foreign workers have been migrating to Britain. Government ministers claim that there is association between immigration and joblessness. It is necessary to control number of foreign workers entering the UK to avoid further increase of unemployment. The Coalition wants to reduce net migration around 10 times by 2015. In 2010 net migration was 252,000 (such a high number was also caused by Britons leaving country).
However, The Office for Budget Responsibility doubt whether the Government will achieve this goal. It is estimated that average annual migration until 2016 will be 140,000.
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