[Summit] Overnight jobs

[Emlyn Addison]

>
> Jobs often follow the people.  That is one reason new immigrants are so
> importatnt to growing economies.  Actually there is no formula.  There is an
> interaction between immigration and economy.  They influence each other, but
> neither rules.  So saying you welcome 75,000 only if they have jobs, is a
> paradox, as the fact of people coming creates many of the jobs they will
> fill.
>

I can understand that logic, but presumably that economic growth is
produced in tandem with a _gradual_ increase in population, not massive
leaps?

Emlyn
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