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Labour immigration after Brexit: questions and trade-offs in designing a work permit system for EU citizens

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  • Madeleine Sumption

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This paper examines key questions the UK Government will face if it opts to end free movement and replace it with a work-permit system after Brexit. It argues that government decisions on which occupations will be eligible for labour immigration after Brexit will be particularly important; there is no single statistical metric for making such decisions, and the government will need to prioritize among several competing objectives. It will also need to consider the trade-off between fine-tuning and simplicity in any new immigration system, facing a choice between the ability to tailor immigration policy to government objectives outside of immigration, and the potential benefits of maintaining a simpler, more uniform, and easily enforceable set of rules that apply to workers and employers across the board.

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  • Madeleine Sumption, 2017. "Labour immigration after Brexit: questions and trade-offs in designing a work permit system for EU citizens," Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Oxford University Press and Oxford Review of Economic Policy Limited, vol. 33(suppl_1), pages 45-53.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:oxford:v:33:y:2017:i:suppl_1:p:s45-s53.
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    1. Madeleine Sumption, 2022. "Shortages, high-demand occupations, and the post-Brexit UK immigration system," Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Oxford University Press and Oxford Review of Economic Policy Limited, vol. 38(1), pages 97-111.
    2. Farrukh Nawaz Kayani, 2022. "Analyzing the Impact of Foreign Remittances uponPoverty: A Case of Uzbekistan from Central Asia," International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, Econjournals, vol. 12(1), pages 1-6.
    3. María Isabel Guerrero Molina & Juan Felipe Salazar Acevedo & Julián Taborda Giraldo, 2022. "Reflexiones sobre el Brexit y la migración: revisión de literatura," Apuntes del Cenes, Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, vol. 41(74), pages 111-139, July.
    4. Erica Consterdine & Sahizer Samuk, 2018. "Temporary Migration Programmes: the Cause or Antidote of Migrant Worker Exploitation in UK Agriculture," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Springer, vol. 19(4), pages 1005-1020, November.

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    Keywords

    labour migration; migrant workers; international migration; work permits;
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    JEL classification:

    • J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers

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