If a country is to accept mass immigration on the grounds that it needs more young workers to help provide for an ageing native population, is it not reasonable to expect that its immigrants should be economically productive?
However, statistics from Denmark and Norway suggest that while immigrants from other Western countries (or a lesser extent from East Asia) are thus productive, immigrants from the Middle East and Africa are pretty much entirely a drain on society.
Wasn't the collapse in UK GDP/capita growth after 2007 driven as much by the decline in North Sea oil and gas production as by the GFC?
There's certainly a strong argument that it was.
If a country is to accept mass immigration on the grounds that it needs more young workers to help provide for an ageing native population, is it not reasonable to expect that its immigrants should be economically productive?
However, statistics from Denmark and Norway suggest that while immigrants from other Western countries (or a lesser extent from East Asia) are thus productive, immigrants from the Middle East and Africa are pretty much entirely a drain on society.