21:36 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nImmigrants from eastern Europe have added almost \u00a35bn to Britain’s economy since 2004, according to a new report.<\/p>\n
The National Institute for Economic and Social Research says 700,000 people moved to the UK after their former communist homelands joined the EU.<\/p>\n
It believes they drove up British GDP by 0.38% in the years to 2009, the equivalent of \u00a34.91bn.<\/p>\n
The report says countries which imposed restrictions on eastern workers saw growth reduced because of this.<\/p>\n
Only the UK, Ireland and Sweden allowed free access from the start to workers from the eight 2004 accession countries, which included Poland, Latvia and Hungary.<\/p>\n
The last EU members to keep restrictions — Germany and Austria — lift them on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Economic output<\/span><\/p>\nBetween 2004 and 2009, an estimated 1.5 million people from eastern Europe came to the UK. It is thought 700,000 of them stayed, with half a million from Poland alone.<\/p>\n
During the same period Britain’s GDP grew by \u00a398bn, or 7.7%, and the NIESR study says that a 5% share of the \u00a398bn can be put down to the migrants.<\/p>\n
The NIESR says the UK probably benefited from the restrictions imposed by other member states. It says Germany will suffer a “permanent scar” on its level of output, with its GDP reduced by between 0.1 and 0.5%.<\/p>\n
One of the report’s authors, Dawn Holland, says that the final lifting of restrictions by all EU countries will make little difference to the situation.<\/p>\n
“Lifting barriers in Germany may divert some Polish and other workers away from the UK”, she says, “especially given the relative strength of the German economy”.<\/p>\n
“But as the existence of support networks for new migrants is one of the most important factors, much of the shift in migrants since 2004 is likely to prove permanent.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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