Over a quarter of the best paid people in the UK are migrants, analysis of anonymised tax returns collected by HMRC has found.
Meanwhile among low-income groups, a lower figure (around one in six) were born outside the UK.
Immigrants made up more than a quarter of the top percentiles’ income share in 2018, up from 18 percent in 1997.
An inflow of high-income finance workers can account for much of the observed rise in top-income shares over the past two decades....