I often essay about Germany and jobs. Today, I noticed via ARD (Channel One, public TV) a brief piece on an odd problem that Germany is facing.
As of 2018....there are almost 490,000 unfilled vacancies existing in Germany.....most all in the area of skilled workers (I'm not talking about PhD level or burger-flippers).
These jobs being discussed fall into the academic areas of mathematics, computer science, natural science, and technology.
A change over spring of 2017? Well....yes, just over 13-percent up in one year.
What's going on? Fewer German kids.....more Germans reaching retirement, and no real way to bring people into the mix unless you accept migration and immigration.
What'll happen? I'm of the mind that you will see more doors opened over the next decade, with Asian countries seeing German recruitment. The same door might be opened in China as well.
Can the Germans accept this? My guess is that if you managed the doorway, and demonstrated that these were not people requiring a lot in job-training, or the cost-impact was great, and almost none of them were potential trouble-makers....most all Germans would be agreeable. The problem is that you really don't have any demonstrated capability of running a doorway with rules.
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