Much much more in the book...
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Lecture 3: How To Do Migration Policy Better
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Lecture 2: A v quick run-through of the imapcts of immigration ...
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Some links to my recent 3-part Lionel Robbins Lectures on Immigration Policy: Why It is Hard and How To Do It Better. Lecture 1:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQkB...
My first Lionel Robbins lecture on 'Why Immigration Policy is Hard'. 2 more to come: Monday 9th, 16th 6.30pm www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQkB...
If you want to know what I really think then you will have to read my book 'Why Immigration Policy is Hard and How To Make It Better' www.waterstones.com/book/why-imm...
I've heard all publicity is good publicity but this is awful spin on my views. Yes, I think social care visa was a mistake but I wld not use term 'mass migration', don't think all migration is fiscally negative in the long-run. Cld go on but no more words.. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
I can believe rising racial abuse in NHS is a serious problem needing attention but to write an article saying declining number of new migrant healthcare workers is about declining supply without mentioning declining demand seems strange to me www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Immigration policy is hard, involving difficult decisions and trade-offs. But, as Alan Manning makes clear, this doesn't mean that we can't do better.
'Why Immigration Policy Is Hard' is an indispensable resource for informed debate on one of the most charged subjects in public life.
Shameless self-publicity. My new book "Why Immigration Policy Is Hard And How To Make It Better" is out.
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Advert for a book launch event hosted by the Resolution Foundation, for Alan Manning's new book 'Why Immigration Policy is Hard.'' Alan will be joined by Stephen Bush in a discussion chaired by Ruth Curtice on Thursday 4th December, 5pm.
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Excellent column from @stephenkb.bsky.social on what
@alanmanning4.bsky.social refers to as the “infernal circle” of immigration policy www.ft.com/content/1144...
Not sure it’s analogous to other services exports as students are resident with costs of providing public infrastructure as OBR recognises that unis don’t pay. Can debate whether levy too high or low but closer perhaps to hotel tourist tax which is meant to cover public costs associated with stay.
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Can Britain break out of migration madness? Former head of the Migration Advisory Committee Prof Alan Manning joins us to talk about the “infernal cycle” of migration policy … whether Labour really are just trying to outbid the Tories and Reform 👉 linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...
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Lots of articles in recent weeks - including the FT - abt the public conflating immigration as a whole with asylum-seekers. But then we have headlines like this...
www.ft.com/content/b9da...
Isn’t it arguable that it was the liberalisations of the Tories under Boris (later partially reversed) that contributed to their destruction.
Yet another article about worker shortages that fails to tell us about offered pay and conditions. Please journalist - just ask. Or, failing that, look at online job ads. Its not hard. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
In a new blog @alanmanning4.bsky.social explains why change was needed to the "seriously flawed" social care visa route and how the government now needs to deliver on its promise to make care work a more attractive job.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/poli...
Why the social care visa had to go. TLDR; in long-run it’s an expensive and ineffective way to hire care workers.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
Great to finally see data like this being published. Though more data means more opportunities for cherry-picking so look out for that. www.gov.uk/government/p...
Great to hear from @sarahoconnorft.ft.com ft.ft.com
abt what happened to the UK truck driver shortage. Short-run: higher pay helped a lot. Medium-run: still structural issues making it hard to offer competitive pay and conditions.
www.ft.com/content/f320...
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How do the economic trajectories of children of immigrants vary across 15 high-income countries? We study intergenerational mobility of immigrants, using individual-level linked parent-child data across Europe, North America, and beyond. 🧵👇 #EconSky
Latest paper on comparing intergenerational mobility of the kids of migrants with kids of locals in 15 countries. It has a very long author list so I feel like a real scientist at last. www.iza.org/publications...
Good to see this happening. Important to have right not rushed decision. And that the labour market in social care is part of remit as current model doesn’t work. Lab mkt wasn’t really in Dilnot report as not part of their commission www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
New discussion paper with @tessahall.bsky.social on immigration and productivity.
TLDR;
Evidence consistent with view nothing especially good (or bad) about migrants; they are only human
cep.lse.ac.uk/_NEW/PUBLICA...
Good col from @sarahoconnorft.bsky.social. I think a lot of motivated reasoning on immig. Too many commentators start from view immig is good (or bad), then use any argument that comes to mind to make preferred case without bothering much about intellectual inconsistency
www.ft.com/content/2bb6...
I think this might be the first sighting of the word monopsony in the Guardian. Though it’s in inverted commas so some way still to acceptance. amp.theguardian.com/sport/2024/o...
“There is legitimate concern that zero-hours contracts are used to shift risk from employers onto lower-paid workers” @alanmanning4.bsky.social
in CentrePiece magazine:
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