Talk:Christian Dustmann
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Fiscal contributions of migrants
[edit]Currently, the text in the "The effects of immigration on host countries and immigrants" section says that non-EEA immigrants have made net negative contributions to public finances:
More recently, Dustmann, Frattini and Caroline Halls have also analyzed the fiscal effects of immigration in the UK, finding that European immigrants in general and especially immigrants from post-2004 EU Member States have made consistently positive contributions to the UK's public finances between 1995 and 2011, though the opposite holds true for non-EEA immigrants, in particular before 2000.
However, if you read the paper this snippet is citing (DF 2014) you can read something slightly different (emphasis mine):
Regarding the net fiscal impact of immigrants, we find for our baseline scenario[7], and considering the immigrant population that resided in the UK over the 1995–2011 period, that over a period during which the fiscal cost of natives cumulated to £591 billion, EEA immigrants contributed 10% more than natives (in relative terms), and non-EEA immigrant contributions were almost 9% lower. On the other hand, recent immigrants, i.e. those who came after 1999, have made positive fiscal contributions irrespective of origin. Between 2001 and 2011, the net fiscal contributions of recent A10 immigrants amounted to almost £5 billion, those of the other recently arrived European immigrants to £15 billion, and those of recent non-European immigrants to a total of over £5 billion. Remarkably, over the same period, the natives’ fiscal cost amounted to almost £617 billion.
I'm going to go ahead and try to update this section to better reflect what was said in the paper. L'alka97 (talk) 03:44, 2 July 2026 (UTC)