Title: Recent immigrants to UK 'make net contribution' - BBC News
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Recent immigrants to UK 'make net contribution'
Immigrants to the UK since 2000 have made a "substantial" contribution to public finances, a report says.
'Highly-educated immigrants'
Career peak
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Prof Dustmann told Today: " It is true that recent immigrants are younger but they are also much better educated. "So they will take more out of the benefit system but they will also contribute more in the future because they have not yet reached their career peak and their full income potential. "Of course, the more you earn, the more you pay in taxes." A spokesman for the government said: " We welcome those that want to come here to contribute to the economy, but it's absolutely right that we have strict rules in place to protect the integrity of the British benefits system to ensure it's not abused." He added that this was why the government was strengthening measures to ensure that benefits are only paid to people who are "legally allowed to live in Britain". Meanwhile, a separate UCL study released on Tuesday warns that the government's target to cut net migration to the UK to the tens of thousands is "neither a useful tool nor a measure of policy effectiveness". That report argues that actions to cut work-related, student and family migration have damaged the UK's reputation as a good place to work and study. The 2011 census showed that 13% of the population of England and Wales was born outside the UK.