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November 2013
contribution to public finances, a report says.
The study by University College Londonsaid
recent immigrants were less likely to claim
benefits and live in social housing than people
born in Britain.
The authors said rather than being a "drain",
their contribution had been "remarkably
strong".
The government said it was right to have strict
rules in place to help protect the benefits
system.
Immigrants who arrived after 1999 were 45%
less likely to receive state benefits or tax
credits than UK natives in the period 20002011, according to the report by Prof Christian
Dustmann and Dr Tommaso Frattini from
UCL's Centre for Research and Analysis of
Migration.
They were also 3% less likely to live in social
housing.
"These differences are partly explainable by
immigrants' more favourable age-gender
composition. However, even when compared
to natives with the same age, gender
composition, and education, recent immigrants
are still 21% less likely than natives to receive
benefits," the authors say.
'Highly-educated immigrants'
Those from the European Economic Area
(EEA - the EU plus Norway, Iceland and
Liechtenstein) had made a particularly positive
contribution in the decade up to 2011,
contributing 34% more in taxes than they
received in benefits.
Immigrants from outside the EEA contributed
2% more in taxes than they received in the
same period, the report showed.
Over the same period, British
people paid 11% less in tax than
they received.
Despite the positive figures in
the decade since the
millennium, the study found
that between 1995 and 2011,
immigrants from non-EEA
countries claimed more in
benefits than they paid in taxes,
mainly because they tended to
have more children than native
Britons.
The report also showed that in 2011, 32% of
recent EEA immigrants and 43% of non-EEA
immigrants had university degrees, compared
with 21% of the British adult population.
The research used data from the British
Labour Force Survey and government reports.
Prof Dustmann said it had shown that "in
contrast with most other European countries,
the UK attracts highly-educated and skilled
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