This mixed-methods NIESR discussion paper estimates the economic and social impacts of lifting the right-to-work restriction on people seeking asylum in the UK. This is the first paper to simulate the effect of lifting this restriction with the use of a state-of-the-art macroeconomic model which allows
us to estimate this outcome in a more holistic manner.

Read Ekaterina Aleynikova and Max Mosley’s The economic and social impacts of lifting work restrictions on people seeking asylum