Home Secretary announces points-based immigration system

Home Secretary announces points-based immigration system

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Leylandeye

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Wednesday 19th February 2020
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https://www.gov.uk/government/news/home-secretary-...

This has been talked about elsewhere but this is the official press release.

It will be interesting how this will work out in the future.

Leylandeye

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550 posts

55 months

Thursday 20th February 2020
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Time will show the eventual impact of this policy. The subject is far too complex to be able to arrive at any worthwhile conclusion from simple analysis.

I suspect that the full impact of this will probably go much further than intended just as previous policies have.

The availability of low paid low skilled workers has no doubt kept many of those jobs at minimum wage. I wonder how much lower those wage levels would have been without minimum wage.

An unintended consequence of a restrictive policy may be to deter skilled labour too though as the policy is aggressive and unwelcoming even though that skilled labour is needed and wanted.

Interesting times lie ahead.