{"id":8987,"date":"2019-01-29T09:43:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T08:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8987"},"modified":"2019-01-29T09:43:53","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T08:43:53","slug":"the-economists-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/8987\/","title":{"rendered":"Two out of three ain&#8217;t bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/8164\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">written<\/a> about <em>The Economist&#8217;s<\/em> Jeremy Cliffe before. Here he is again:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Merkel was widely derided for her immigrant policies. But now we know:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; 3\/4 of new immigrants have done or are doing German courses<br \/>\n&#8211; 33% speak good or v good German, up from 18%<br \/>\n&#8211; 35% are in work<br \/>\n&#8211; 2011-16 migrants added \u20ac35 billion to the German economy<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DIW_Berlin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DIW_Berlin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeremy Cliffe (@JeremyCliffe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeremyCliffe\/status\/1089149276658327553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s good to know that mass immigration policies are considered a success if 35% of newcomers are in work. Presumably taxpayers are happy to support the remaining 65% who can be found lolling around street corners, shopping centres, and cafes during the day. And I have a feeling the working behind that\u00a0\u20ac35 billion number might reveal an assumption or two which would cause a belly laugh in this parish. As one of my Finnish readers points out:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Note that your translation &#8220;in work&#8221; is inaccurate. The German word is &#8220;Besch\u00e4ftigung&#8221;, which I believe in statistical terms is &#8220;employment&#8221; in English, but it is not &#8220;employed&#8221; as in the everyday vocabulary.<\/p>\n<p>It includes all kinds of training, at least 1 hour per week.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pekka Taipale (@ptaipale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ptaipale\/status\/1089463347907567616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 27, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nI bet Cliffe didn&#8217;t even know that; his job is to propagandise, not inform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written about The Economist&#8217;s Jeremy Cliffe before. Here he is again: Merkel was widely derided for her immigrant policies. But now we know: &#8211; 3\/4 of new immigrants have done or are doing German courses &#8211; 33% speak good &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/8987\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[88,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8989,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987\/revisions\/8989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}