I sat and watched a N-24 news piece this morning in Germany (commercial news).
Topic? They suggest that Germany is presently in the midst of a worker shortage (amounting to around 1.2 positions that need to be filled).
The 'selling-point'? Well....prepare yourself....it's bad enough that the discussion among companies is reaching the point of asking for some form of directed immigration/migration.
They aren't saying wild and unplanned migration. They say that the seventy-odd fields in question need to be written with a good idea of recruiting people with the skills required already. That means.....few, if any, Tunisians, Afghans, or Syrians will get in the door.....unless they had these skills.
Likely showing up in places like South Korea, Taiwan, the Ukraine, Argentina, or India? Well...they suggest that you need particular types of skills and it's going require some unique HR-type skills to find the person, and recruit them into coming to Germany.
I sat and pondered over this. First, you'd have to list the skill sets and establish the the type of person you need. Then you have to show up in some country and advertise in some way with German work-visa applications. Then, you'd have to sell folks on packing up (say from Australia or Taiwan) and move to Germany (higher taxes, and higher cost of living).
Just finding 30-odd thousand people a year.....would be a serious 'pain'.
Housing in cities like Hamburg or Frankfurt? The situation is already crappy before you even suggest 2k new people arriving from out-of-country.
It's an interesting problem, but I seriously doubt that it can be resolved.
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