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I think the "everything is equal" is the key part of your post. Sadly the maths don't add up. I'm going to use some made up figures to try and demonstrate my point. Let's say there have always been 200 entry level jobs a year in the city but 500 school leavers. In years past that would have...

The point being that there are only so many entry level jobs to go round. The city being a tourist place is lucky in that it has more of these jobs than non-tourist places. There is still a limit on how many of these jobs there are - when I left school there were still not enough to cover the...

The cost is more than a few pounds of benefits claimed illegally. Plenty of the entry level jobs have been taken by immigrants - try going to get a bar job, a waiting job or a job in one of the discount supermarkets ( all decent starter jobs when I was 16-18 years old ) and almost every single...