Bofferbrauer2 said:
Thing is, entrepreneurs and economists were already warning about that practically since the reunification, as more and more Germans decided that studying would get them a better job opportunity instead of manual jobs. In this article from 3 years ago you can see where that is leading: even if all potential trainees wold find an employer, there would still be 15% open spots, and it's just getting worse every year. Or here, about 2013, where they describe how companies are trying to woo the trainees to their company with things like "business trips" to rock concerts around the world, company cars and good old hiring premiums - simply because there ain't enough for everybody. Several cities were especially short on trainable talents, especially in the eastern part of Germany, like Potsdam. permanently open spots that could not be covered with trainees reach at least as far back as 2008. In other words, Merkel's open door immigration helped the country filling the holes in the manufacturing companies with fresh hirelings and trainees. Without them, I'm very sure the German economy wouldn't have been able to grow at it's current rate, as Germany would have been critically short on workers. |
I heavily disagree with you last sentence. In 2018 roughly every fourth refugee worked in a "sozialversicherungspflichtigen"(social insurance requiring?) job which means the refugees a probably a net loss for the german state, I would go even further and say the the overall contribution of the refugees to the german economy is very little because the money the german state spends on refugees could be used a lot more efficiently if invested differently.
But all those things I stated above aren't that dramatic because we speak about refugees, they're here because they aren't safe in their own country and not because they contribute so much to the german economy.
Asylum is a terrible tool to combat the lack of skilled workforce and it was never intended to be one, it's heavily beneficial for criminal structures and refugees have a huge initial cost before they can contribute to the economy.
What we should do instead is a) make a immigration law ,similar to those in Canada and the US, for skilled workers from non EU countries who can immediately partake in the german job market. b) We have to be more welcoming to those immigrants, I recently read about a Study who asked immigrants in different countries about their work and life and those in germany said the the working conditions are very good but they don't feel particualary welcomed in germany.
c) germany has on of the lowest fertility rate world wide, we have to make germany more family friendly. Financial security is very important if you plan to become a baby so we need harder restrictions for time employment and a better security net if you fall out of employment, The possibility to work only 90% or 80% if you have little kids, etc
