Impact of Immigration on UK Labour Market

CONTEMPORARY
ISSUES IN BUSINESS
(“THE EFFECT OF ECONOMIC
IMMIGRATION UPON ENGLISH
BUSINESSES OVER THE LAST 5 YEARS IN
LONDON, BRADFORD AND LINCOLN”)

ABSTRACT
The report describes the effect of economic immigration upon UK businesses. The UK
businesses are facing the both positive and negative impact of economic immigration. The main
reasons behind this immigration is to have good job opportunity and to improve the standard of
living. There are several issues associated with immigration such as age distribution, health
status and skill level. Along with that fertility patterns and nature of immigration also have direct
impact on economic growth of UK. The net contribution of immigrants in different cities like
Bradford and Lincoln is positive because of their contribution for development of textile, food
industry etc. They use public services and other welfare activities in less proportion which create
relatively less cost but high profit for country as UK. The concept of self-expatriates can also be
applied because London has become to centre focus for migrants. Here, number of people visit
UK for the purpose of job and growth opportunities. It is helpful in achieving objectives of
selected sector which serves as the basis for development of nation. The key drivers behind the
migration of people has been identified. First reason is the poverty, it is because, poverty in other
African and Asian countries has diverted their citizens towards the UK agriculture and
manufacturing sector. Further, in the past 5 years, UK has experienced a regular flow of migrants
into the economy. Moreover, these migrants act as the negative factor which cut down the job
opportunities of the UK people and lower down the wage rates. Lastly there are several best
practices adopted by the companies such as controlling migration, reducing temporary
migrations, motivation, training, etc.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I would like to impart my sincere thanks to my mentor who provided immense support
during the completion of this project. Along with that I would like to say thanks to my friends
who all the time supported me by providing supporting material which are required in this
project report. In addition to this, I also want to say thanks to my parents without their concern
this project could not have come to an end. At last, I want to confess that the completion of this
project could not be possible without the participation and assistance of so many people whose
names may not be enumerated.
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DECLARATION
I hereby declare that this Project Report titled “Contemporary Issues in Business (The
Effect of Economic Immigration Upon English Businesses Over The Last 5 Years In
London, Bradford and Lincoln)” submitted to the Department of (college and department
name), is a record of original work done by me under the guidance of (teacher name).
The information and data given in this report is authentic to best of my knowledge. The
data is taken is completely unique and not similar to any of the report of other business school.
Along with that, the report has the word count of 4700 which is completely unique and has been
done by doing detailed research.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABSTRACT.....................................................................................................................................2
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT...............................................................................................................3
DECLARATION.............................................................................................................................4
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................6
Identification and justification.....................................................................................................6
LITERATURE REVIEW................................................................................................................9
Drivers of economic immigration ...............................................................................................9
The concept of economic immigration......................................................................................10
The impact of economic immigration on agriculture, banking and manufacturing..................13
IDENTIFICATION OF BEST PRACTICE WITH RESPECT TO MANAGEMENT OF
ECONOMIC IMMIGRANTION...................................................................................................15
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................18
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................19
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ILLUSTRATION INDEX
Illustration 1: Immigration share of region's working age populations...........................................8
Illustration 2: Distribution of self-employed & employee foreign-born workers............................9
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