German Institute for Economic Research estimates the need for skilled workers at 500,000 employees per year
Berlin - "There are already more than a million vacancies and an acute shortage of workers," he told the Handelsblatt. The shortage does not only exist for highly qualified specialists, but in almost all professions and for most qualifications. "Therefore, Germany will need 500,000 additional employees every year for the next ten years."
Fratzscher sees the labor shortage as a "threat to the competitiveness of the German economy and the prosperity that we enjoy in Germany today". However, a new law on the immigration of skilled workers will not suffice. The economist warned that there should be more focus on women's employment.
Many part-time women would like to work more if the financial, family and bureaucratic framework were better. "Therefore, the federal government must finally focus on removing obstacles to women's employment," said Fratzscher. The President of the Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHK), Peter Adrian, believes that adjustments to immigration are overdue: "In Germany, over the next ten years we have to improve the demographic compensate for the loss of four to five million workers," Adrian told the Handelsblatt.
In order for the immigration of skilled workers to work in practice, there must be functioning diplomatic missions, visa offices and foreigners authorities. "It can't be that you as an employer have to run after the employee in the immigration office who is responsible for the permit," said Adrian.
Source: Der Newsticker
Photo: Imago/Blickwinkel.
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