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The Running Man's link suggests that even non-EEA migrants have a net positive in the long term vs a negative in the short term.
No its pointing out a flaw in the Oxford calculation which doesn't include the cost of their children as they assume that the children would be calculated separately.
because under this lifecycle method the cost of education is attributed to the child and expected to be offset by tax on their earnings when they enter the labour market.
This method expects the cost of education to be offset, but it cannot guarantee that.
Even less so now I would imagine if they were to calculate it today knowing that we have lads unemployment.
I also don't know if they factor in things like 50% of people getting cancer for example and therefore the extra healthcare costs this will add..