Not enough migrants arriving to keep pay down - Central Bank

The Department of Finance expects that another 50,000 jobs will be added this year, barring a hard Brexit

David Chance

THE number of people willing to move here to work is not going to hit levels seen during the last boom and will not keep wages down, economists at the Central Bank are forecasting.

The Department of Finance expects that another 50,000 jobs will be added this year, barring a hard Brexit, and predicts average wages will rise 3pc in 2019, 3.2pc in 2020 and 3.3pc the following year.