Quote Originally Posted by Fragony View Post
They call themselves the employers association.

And we do do these studies here, and no there is no benefit it are billions that are leeched, 8 billion a year in fact.
I don't know where you get that figure from. The most an admittedly quick Google yields is a much more complex picture. An estimate by Pieter Lakeman of 5.9bn a year spent (but what about the money brought back in through tax revenues on stuff them immigrants buy for instance). OTOH there is apparently a 2003 study which claims a net loss of 43K over the lifetime of an immigrant. Non native Dutch make up about 20% of the population, so assuming this is what the figure refers to and applying a generous life time expectancy of about 74 years we get for a generous population estimate of 17M: 0.20 * (€43*10^3*17*10^6)/ 74 = €2.0*10^9 = €2.0bn per year. Or about one Icesave.