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Immigration and the UK economy after Brexit
Immigration was central to the politics of Brexit (Hobolt 2016), but was peripheral in the pre-referendum discussion of its economic consequences (Portes 2016). Indeed, both before and in the immediate aftermath of the referendum, the UK’s choice was often framed as a tradeoff between the economic costs of increasing trade frictions between the UK and EU on the one hand, and the political benefits of ending free movement and restoring ‘control’ over immigration on the other (e.g. Baldwin et al. 2016). Since the referendum this has reversed – immigration has become a much less salient political issue, and ... (full story)
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