Labour Market

IEA Economics Fellow: Artificially creating labour shortages will ‘disrupt the economy’


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Mark Littlewood quoted by Sky News

Julian Jessop appears on BBC Newsnight

IEA Economics Fellow, Julian Jessop, appeared on BBC Newsnight to discuss the government’s plan for a high wage economy by reducing the inflow of cheap foreign labour. Julian argued that “Artificially creating labour shortages isn’t a great way to boost productivity ..It can disrupt the economy“.

Watch highlights here.



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