The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #162855   Message #3896117
Posted By: Iains
28-Dec-17 - 10:37 AM
Thread Name: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
Subject: RE: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
""Our results also reveal that the biggest impact of immigration on wages is within the semi/unskilled services occupational group."

This is the same socio economic group that is unsurprisingly the most at risk of increasing automation shrinking their employment prospects.
This potentially is a far greater problem than immigration.
The lower the educational requirements, the more likely the job is to be automated: the risk of automation to jobs requiring GCSE-level education is 46 per cent; this falls to only around 12% for those with undergraduate degrees.
    These changes will have a far greater impact on society than Brexit