Do EU migrants help improve the UK economy?
The aim of this assignment is to establish if EU migrants contribute more to the UK economy than they take out in welfare.
There is a massive misconception amongst people in the United Kingdom that migrants that have come from the European Union move to the UK to simply rely on benefits and drain the system of the tax payers’ money. However, the top two reasons for migration into the UK are to work (i.e. to look for a job or because of guaranteed work) or to study. This is backed up by figure 4 which shows the reasons for migration into the UK. This means that the majority of migrants are looking to contribute to the economy, as they will work and so pay taxes, or are eager to learn and go on to do further education. This means they will get better paid jobs and may even create their own businesses which would …show more content…
However, most of the respondents (62%) answered incorrectly and 40% of those respondents answered lower than the actual value. Figure 5 agrees with these figures as it shows how UK natives’ benefits and other government expenditure is higher than what is paid back in taxes, but with EU migrants tax contributions exceed benefits and other government expenditure. This shows that, even though the most popular answer was the correct one, the majority of people are not entirely aware of just how much EU migrants contribute and this may be a result of the media not accurately portraying the economic benefit of migrants. Newspapers such as The Sun and Daily Mail present millions of readers often with biased information by focusing on the minority such as single case scenarios where migrants have come over to exploit the benefits system and this skews people’s
The aim of this assignment is to establish if EU migrants contribute more to the UK economy than they take out in welfare.
There is a massive misconception amongst people in the United Kingdom that migrants that have come from the European Union move to the UK to simply rely on benefits and drain the system of the tax payers’ money. However, the top two reasons for migration into the UK are to work (i.e. to look for a job or because of guaranteed work) or to study. This is backed up by figure 4 which shows the reasons for migration into the UK. This means that the majority of migrants are looking to contribute to the economy, as they will work and so pay taxes, or are eager to learn and go on to do further education. This means they will get better paid jobs and may even create their own businesses which would …show more content…
However, most of the respondents (62%) answered incorrectly and 40% of those respondents answered lower than the actual value. Figure 5 agrees with these figures as it shows how UK natives’ benefits and other government expenditure is higher than what is paid back in taxes, but with EU migrants tax contributions exceed benefits and other government expenditure. This shows that, even though the most popular answer was the correct one, the majority of people are not entirely aware of just how much EU migrants contribute and this may be a result of the media not accurately portraying the economic benefit of migrants. Newspapers such as The Sun and Daily Mail present millions of readers often with biased information by focusing on the minority such as single case scenarios where migrants have come over to exploit the benefits system and this skews people’s