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Labour immigration and interest rates

Geoff Riley

16th May 2015

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To wha extent has the higher than expected level of net inward migration of labour into the UK economy been a factor keeping policy interest rates at their current level of 0.5%?

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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