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Over 80 Percent of New Jobs Created in the UK go to Foreign Workers
By Global News Digest
Posted February 04, 2009
A recent British research publication claims that 80.6% of all new job created in the country since 2001 have gone to non-citizens.
The research published by British think-tank Migration Watch reveals that 1.34 million jobs were created in the United Kingdom between 2001 and 2008. According to the research results, British nationals (most of them naturalized citizens) took up about 260,000 of those jobs, while the rest, about 1.08 million, went to foreign nationals living and working in Britain.
Of the 1.08 million jobs that went foreign workers in Britain, 469,000 were taken up by workers from the A8 East European countries -- including Poland and Slovakia who joined the EU in 2004 and gained full access to the British job market. The remaining 56.6% or 611,000 jobs were taken up by other foreign workers -- including visible minorities and members of the British commonwealth from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean.
There is, however, a new trend of social hostility toward foreign workers as the current global recession continues and deepens. Experts fear that both trends, recession and social hostility, are bringing about a brain drain of highly skilled foreign workers in Britain.
According to yet another report by recruitment agency, eFinancial Careers, one in three foreign workers in Britain considered using the 2008 Christmas break to relocate out of the country. Most of these foreign workers look to other financial centers like China and Dubai to take them in. Some finance experts, however, blame the brain drain of high-skill foreign workers on British government's tax policy unvailed last December which introduces a new 45 percent tax rate for income earners above 150,000 per annum.
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