Nothing is ‘hidden’ in our report on the fiscal effects of recent UK immigration

A research report released earlier this week by Christian Dustmann and Tommaso Frattini found that recent immigrants have provided a consistently positive and astonishingly strong contribution to the UK’s fiscal health (you can see a summary of their report published on this blog). Subsequently, the findings have come under fire with suggestions that there are things ‘hidden’ in the report. Here, they address the criticisms point by point.