The impact of Brexit on the British economy

Bc. Julia-Maria Fink

Master's thesis

Abstract:

This master’s thesis examines the impact of the United Kingdom’s 2016 referendum and the subsequent Brexit on migration streams alteration and net migration in the UK. The UK’s act of leaving the European Union was connected to a series of complex negotiations resulting in inevitable obstacles, some of which, notably the Northern Irish Protocol, are still presently being revised by the current British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Within the paper qualitative research was conducted employing the descriptive method covering a broad range of topics connected to the European Union and its common history with the United Kingdom, the factors which might have led to the Brexit referendum, its background, and the effects of it on migration. A correlation analysis was utilized to examine the interconnections and compare the evolution of various variables over time, encompassing net migration figures, public opinion on migration, chosen figures of EU funds, the Brexit referendum results, work migration and academic migration. The previously mentioned variables were often wise investigating the migrant groups from the EU and from non-EU countries separately. Our results show that with rising figures of incoming migrants, the public opinion in Britain increasingly perceived migration as an issue. Brexit and the newly applied immigration regulations have not caused the net migration figures to decline significantly, however the incoming streams of EU migrants dropped heavily, instead the non-EU migration figures grew.

Keywords

Economy, Migration, Academic Migration, Work Migration, Brexit, Migrants, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the European Union, Referendum, Public Opinion

Jazyk práce: English

Datum vytvoření / odevzdání či podání práce: 2. 12. 2023

Obhajoba závěrečné práce

• Obhajoba proběhla 7. 2. 2024
• Vedúci: doc. Ing. Irena Benešová, Ph.D.
• Oponent: Monika Hrstková, externi

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Economics and Management

Master programme:
World Economy