Your hypothesis would mean that the number
of unemployed in a given country is linked to
the number of immigrants. I am not aware of
such a relationship.
The number of unemployed is however linked with
the capacities of workplaces used; at present
the UK is working at 1973 capacities, and
the (unofficial) number of unemployed is
around 4 million - near 10%.
If you don't like the idea of "creating"
workplaces that are superfluous and not
environtally friendly, don't jump on
the supramacist or whatever bandwaggon of
blaming the immigrants, but blame the system
that cannot sort out the ample resourses
so that we may all contribute to our own convenience
and satisfaction, and take what we need
for comfortable but sustainable living.
Eva
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>
> The creation of new jobs is the goal of politicians of all persuasions.
> But creating jobs increases the number of people who are out of work! Here
> is how this happens. A community has an equilibrium unemployment rate of,
> say, 4%. A new factory is built, and the unemployment rate drops to 2%,
> until people move into the community to take the jobs and raise the
> unemployment rate to the equilibrium 4%. But this is 4% of a larger
> population, so more people in the community are out of work. For every
> hundred jobs that are created in a community, about four more unemployed
> people are created in the community. Because of our freedom to move, it is
> impossible in the U.S. to create and maintain an island of low unemployment
> by creating new jobs.
>
>
> Ms. Burke is telling it like it is. Thanks.
>
> Sincerely yours,
>
> Albert A. Bartlett
>
>
> Each increment of added population, and
> Each added increment of affluence,
> Invariably destroys an increment
> Of the remaining environment.
>
> Albert A. Bartlett: Professor Emeritus of Physics
> University of Colorado, Boulder, 80309-0390
>
