"They are not looking to hire as many immigrants. So this is the first thing that reduces the level of migration.

VOA: standard.2010.01.20

"The first thing that affects migration is the fact employers do not want as many workers,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.20

Historically most urban growth has been due to natural increase, not migration.

ECONOMIST: Cities

Immigration minister Damian Green said he had decided to extend the restrictions as he wanted to ensure migration from those countries delivered economic benefits to the UK and that he did not want migration to have adverse impacts on the domestic labour force.

BBC: Restrictions on Bulgarian and Romanian workers extended

Many of the economic gains from mobility do not require migration to be permanent.

ECONOMIST: Managing the market