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The migration argument was wrong: there is no correlation between the change in UK-born wages levels and the presence of EU migrants

International climate finance is crucial to smooth global warming, but a large share of it remains uncertain. Source: Bruegel based on OECD (2015) and Standing Committee on Finance (2014)

Unemployment is a key variable in the coming US election. But more importantly, behind the recent improvement in unemployment numbers subsists a lesson in caution: the unemployment rate in the US is still higher than the worst-case scenario originally computed by the Council of Economic Advisors for the US President, in January 2009. And that’s not all, as Paul Krugman reminds us, even measuring unemployment is problematic. Source: James Pethokoukis for the AEI Blog, October 7th 2012

The migration argument was wrong: there is no correlation between the change in UK-born wages levels and the presence of EU migrants