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CER podcast: Brexit and the labour market

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🗓️ 25 January 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode of the Centre for European Reform podcast, the CER's deputy director John Springford and professor at King's College London Jonathan Portes discuss their report 'Early impacts of the post-Brexit immigration system on the UK labour market'. The report estimates that Brexit has led to a net shortfall of 330,000 workers in the UK, concentrated in low-skilled sectors such as transportation and hospitality. They delve into the methods used to reach this figure and debate the potential benefits and drawbacks of sector-specific immigration rules to try to reduce labour shortages. Produced by Helmi Pillai Music by Edward Hipkins

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0:00.0

From the Center for European Reform, this is the CEO podcast.

0:04.1

Poson us seriously the question of the

0:06.0

future that we want, and we all

0:08.2

all together, the courage to it

0:09.8

for us in Germany. For us in

0:11.1

Germany, is the beckrentness to

0:12.8

European Europe, part of our

0:14.8

state's resolve. A strong United Europe is a necessity

0:17.3

for the world because an integrated Europe

0:19.0

remains vital to our international order.

0:21.4

This is the moment for Europe to lead the way towards a new vitality.

0:28.0

Hello and welcome to the Centre for European Reform Podcast.

0:31.8

Today we're going to be talking about a paper that I've written with Jonathan B Portez, who's with us. Jonathan is Professor

0:38.7

of Economics and Public Policy at King's College London and a senior fellow at our rivals and

0:43.6

friends, UK and a changing Europe. Welcome, Jonathan. Good morning. So the paper is called,

0:47.8

we put it out this week, early impacts of the post-Brexit migration system on the UK labour market,

0:52.6

which is perhaps a little bit of a mouthful.

0:54.6

But the genesis of the project was Jonathan has been doing this excellent work, showing that the new

0:59.6

immigration system that was put in after the end of free movement, it's actually relatively

1:04.4

liberal. Immediately after the referendum, when we kind of suspected the free movement was going to

1:09.5

end, everyone was worried that this was going to mean a big closure of the UK labor market to immigrants,

1:15.5

and that was obviously going to cause some economic change.

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