The labor market hypothesis has been recently increasingly dismissed as an explanation for immigration preferences, noting that people oppose immigration more based on cultural reasons than economic ones. However, an increasing body of literature is showing that immigration is in many ways benifitial for the economies of the receiving communities. Is the economic argument more salient if the respondents are aware of these positive externalities of immigration? We test this by administering a survey experiment in the UK, where respondents are primed to various degrees of the positive economic consequences of granting work permits to asylum seekers. Results show that informing respondents about asylum seekers taking jobs that are unwanted by the locals increases support for granting asylum seekers work permits. This effect is more pronounced among respondents who voted "Leave" in the EU referendum, indicating that the narrative of the economic benefits also works for people who are otherwise opposed to immigration.