FOREIGN workers have done better out of the recession than British men, a study has found.
Despite a drop in overall employment, male migrants in the UK have enjoyed higher levels of work than “native-born men” since 2007, according to a leading thinktank.
The trend has reversed a pre-crisis shortfall in employment and migrants are now doing better than men who were born in the country.
The startling finding is contained in a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Its latest International Migration Outlook study also reveals total permanent immigration rose in the 34 OECD countries from 2010 to 2011.
The report said: “Despite a decline in their employment rates during the crisis, male migrants in the United Kingdom had higher levels of employment than native-born men from 2007 onwards.”
It went on: “In half of the OECD countries, migrant men have an employment advantage relative to native men.
“In the majority among them this advantage has been further strengthened in 2012 relative to the pre-crisis levels, except in Italy, Estonia and Portugal.
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