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On 14-Jun-16 8:38 AM, harry wrote:
On Monday, 13 June 2016 09:49:48 UTC+1, Nightjar wrote:
On 12-Jun-16 7:59 PM, Fredxxx wrote:
On 12/06/2016 19:56, Adrian wrote:

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You mean if we stay in the EU


We are very unlikely to leave, even if the first referendum results in a
leave win. The government and a large majority of MPs want us to stay.

and a wake of Turks depress wages even more?

I'm thinking of my children, not having to compete with immigrants from
developing countries.


The evidence from 50 years of Turkish workers in Germany is that it is
the immigrants who struggle to get the jobs.



If that were so, why do they come?


Turks have been in Germany long enough for half of them to have been
born there.

Or are you fantasising again?


From a study by the Berlin Institute for Population and Development:

'Immigrants tend on average to be more poorly educated and more
frequently unemployed and to participate less in public life than the
native population.'

A summary of the findings, in English, is given he

http://www.berlin-institut.org/filea...sion_final.pdf


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