In November 2010 the New Economics Foundation published a short paper entitled "Why the cap won't fit: Global migration realities 2010 to 2050". The paper argued that immigration pressures in the third world would decline after reaching a peak in 2035, that immigrants might become scarcer and that only an increase in the working age population through inward migration will be able to address the shortages in the UK labour force. This note challenges those assertions.
See Briefing Paper 1.26 for the full article