A l'appui de mon précédent post en faveur de la liberté de migration (lien), voici de nouvelles données, cette fois ci en provenance d'Irlande (ça devient une habitude) montrant que non seulement l'immigration ne pénalise pas l'emploi autochtone, mais qu'elle le favorise:
"The CSO's current (Q3 2005) Quarterly National Household Survey reports that approximately 25% of the 40,000 immigrants who joined the labour force found work in the construction industry. Interestingly, the same release reports a 30,000 increase in employment in that sector in the 12 months to the end of Q3. That means that an extra 20,000 Irish people found work in construction, despite the influx of 10,000 "displacing" immigrants into the industry.
So not only is construction employing more immigrants, it is also employing more Irish people too. In fact, despite the extra 40,000 immigrants who joined the labour force, the CSO shows that there are some 96,200 extra people in employment in Ireland than there were 12 months previously."
"Certes", me rétorquera-t-on, "mais ces immigrants ne tirent ils pas les salaires des résidents vers le bas ?"
Là encore, la réponse semble clairement négative:
"An examination of wage inflation statistics further casts doubt on (this) claim. While construction absorbed the highest percentage of immigrant workers, wage inflation in this area stood at 6.0% in the 12 months to September 2005. One wonders how the effect of immigrant labour is undercutting wages in this industry.
(...)One obvious question is how do construction earnings stack up against other industries? The CSO provides the answer. Earnings in the Financial Services sector were up just 1.7% in the 12 months to September, below the rate of consumer price inflation.
Indeed, average industrial earnings were up 3.0% in the 12 months to September, half the rate seen in the construction industry. Earnings growth in distribution and business services (3.5% in the 12 months to June) and also the public sector (5.5%) were also behind that seen in the "displaced" construction industry.
Une fois de plus, répétons le sans relâche, dans une économie de liberté, l'immigration permet de pourvoir des emplois qui créent d'autres emplois à plus forte valeur ajoutée, entrainant un cercle vertueux de croissance. Les politiques étatiques restreignant la liberté d'aller et venir ne font que tarir cette source de création de richesses.
Trouvé via Johan Norberg
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