The proposals to auction off working visas, as found in Gary Becker's The Challenge of Immigration, received a great deal of media attention. Below is a selection of the coverage.
Radio
- Prof Len Shackleton, IEA Fellow, on BBC Three Counties' The Other One Show (listen here)
Op-ed
- Mark Littlewood writing for ConservativeHome - If there is to be an immigration cap, the Government should sell that limited number of work permits and visas
In print
- The Daily Mail - 'Charge every would-be migrant £30k to settle in Britain', says Nobel Prize-winning economist
- The Daily Telegraph - How to solve the problem of immigration: just charge for it
- The Daily Star - Pay Up to be a Brit
