Behind Germany's plan to reform its labor market | DW Business
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- An ageing population, a low birth-rate and a national preference for part-time work. Germany's labor market is shrinking fast. In the next five years, the country's working age population is expected to decline more than any other G7 economy - putting strain on both the pension system and employers' ability to fill positions. The government is under pressure to take action - and so far, there are a number of options on the table. DW Business spoke to Professor Ulrike Malmendier, one of the five members of Germany's Council of Economic experts, about what can be done.
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Why not reform Germany's bureaucracy to make it easier for educated immigrants to find work here? It would be a great way to tap into their skills and expertise.
Even Canada does this, talk one way and their policies say something else. They put soo much barriers for skilled workers to actually participate in the economy. Not worth the effort.
I have feelings that they only want the low end immigrants to do the job they don’t want to do and keep the better job for themselves.
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@simba8665 Canada is basically the North American Germany but with Terrible public transportation. Selling a false dream to professionals when they know too well none if the credentials are recognized and you need experience to even get a good position.
I hate the fact that they never mention that it's low-wage jobs which is what they want to fill. Come to salaried positions (>35-40k per year) there is literally nothing. Add on top, the government says something and then the companies choose to completely ignore it because they won't budge an inch from their comfort zones. Sometimes I wonder how terrible the myth of German efficiency was, everything essentially came down to cheap gas/oil prices. Now that that's gone you start to see the bare bones.
True !!
I agree as a Brazilian!
Yes but good for internationals especially those just getting started
I disagree, it’s not just the low-wage jobs. I immigrated to Germany 2 years ago. My company had massive layoffs so recently looked for jobs and I found myself as feeling like meat between several companies and it was a game of who was faster to offer something. Completely different than how it was in the US. You can really feel the lack of resources in Germany and off course this is an excellent position to be for someone who has prepared themselves before. I found a new job in 3 months (90-100K) and the German government paid me a 5K certification training to improve my candidacy for companies and find a new job faster during those 3 months. Learn German, improve your technical skills and you for sure are wanted in this country.
@@mariabelenviareque2178 what do you do for a living now? What do u mean by the lack of resources?
Personally, I don't feel this labour shortage, I'm an expat, a qualified person with a German PhD in biochemical engineering, fluent in three languages (including German), living in the German region that is supposed to have the most opportunities for prosperity in my area, yet I haven't been able to find a job for 2 years. I would have left long ago if my children hadn't settled here
I think Germany doesn't lack of PhD, but rather 'normal workers' like nurses, plumbers, welders etc
Sorry to hear that. I also Ph.D. and never got a job.
@@dirmanbw336 especially blue collar worker
All you have to do is look at the upside down German population pyramid to see the problem. No need for a PhD to do that 😅
You're asking for too much money. Man, don't be so greedy and let the boss have some left… dann klappt's auch mit dem Job.
Language is the biggest barrier to foreign labour recruitment in the entire Europe.... thats why canada, Australia, USA and UK seems more attractive for foreign skilled workers
yeah my mother tongue is German and I agree. English should become the EU standard, taught parallel with same importance as the native language beginning in primary school in all EU member countries. And knowing English should open up the same opportunities as knowing the native language in every EU country. Also all of the bureaucracy (legal documents and forms) should be available to be filed in English everywhere.
Ummm they are more attractive because you also make way more money as a skilled worker.
@@FranzMullerxX As a Swede who is on the lookout for work in southern Germany and do speak german but understand it even better, it's still hard to find jobs that doesn't require A+ level of the german language...
And Germans aren't friendly and welcoming as English speaking nations are.
A+ level is insane , whaaat?@@JoelOman1980
Sounds like a scam to me.
a pozni scheme, that always in need for new entrants aka low-paid immigrants that are doing cr*ppy jobs
Listening to this I am imagining the upcoming protests.
It will be , if everyone will agree they will rise it to 90 years and tell yeah but some people live to 110 years 😅😅😅
It’s a bit late to reform the labour market when it is already shrinking! They knew this was coming, but put their head in the sand and ignored the issue. Germany needs to heavily encourage families to have more kids, if that doesn’t succeed, then all of this tinkering on the edge won’t matter at all.
Also - all research shows that the more ‘diverse’ a population gets, the less people trust in each other and are less willing to pay taxes to fund various programs, because they don’t see the ‘others’ as the same as themselves. There’s a reason why the USA has next to no social security, it didn’t just come to be that way out of thin air.
West Germany isn't family friendly and east Germany has low salaries, so also not so good for family building. Germany is way too late for everything. Pension and work reforms, birth rates, assimilation of foreigners. The governments lack of willingness to do the real work, extreme bureaucracy and love of short sighted last minute solutions.
Could you share some do that research? I would like to read about it :)
@@isabelmateus2547 how about you find it yourself - I’m not here to convince or convert anyone. Studies and information is free for you to read all over the internet and in other publications.
Our system is a ponzi one, you just need more immigrants to pay low salary, making them work longer to keep the system working! She even mentioned about Ukrainians.
And what could you do about that? Have any thoughts?
That's how all countries work.
100% true, low salaries and then at least 40% taxes
@@Luis-hq8qv effective tax rate is rarely 40%. I am in 42% tax bracket but effectively pay 30%
@@tomasmuir9812 do you math again and include VAT
what are you talking about i am truck driver in Germany in expensive town (Regensburg) they pay me 2600 brutto i am all the day on the roads all the time my truck is overloaded with stuff, 250-350 km every singe day and approximetly 20 clients per day ,i guess gonverment should fix first salaries and work enviroment and the to speak up for labor shortages and to stop the social benefits to healthy young people who dont care about nothing.
Wow 2.6 brutto in the south is tough. I feel for you! Yes, they need to shuffle and balance salaries.
Wow, you make even more than Swedish truck drivers.
Youth unemployment is one of the lowest in Germany. What are you talking about? You older people should start actually working and improving urself instead of being stuck in boomer times. You're the problem, not us.
Notice she did not mention higher taxes on the richest citizens and companies.
Yeah, it’ll just be more taxes on the working class and poor, as usual.
But taxing the richest individuals and companies is difficult, as they’ll always find legal loopholes to pay less, or will very easily move to a more tax-favourable country and then the country loses out further.
who cares?
So why did you gave musk 5 billion Euros of taxpayer money to build a factory at Berlin? The guy has 190 billion euros on his bank account, are you bucketing water into the ocean? Whenever a bank or a big corpo needs a bailout you dont have problems with spening on them billions...@@HartlepoolLad
Will high tax solve the shortage of labour force? I don’t think so.
@@khurtsbaatarbold5761 no, taxing the rich will make the rich leave or relocate businesses elsewhere. And if they did pay more taxes, it’d only make the rich richer… it wouldn’t solve labour problems, cost of living crisis, employment market crisis, etc. unless governments invest taxes better.
If there is affordable accommodation I would be happy to move and work in Germany. Otherwise, don’t count on me or any newcomers. What is the point of working if you can’t afford living, or just being alive? Of course there is shortage in Germany. They really should invest into housing like any other country if they wanna grow economically.
In many places, accommodation is unaffordable. Sometimes you can get 200+ viewers for a rental property, so you have more chance of winning the lottery than getting an apartment!
Nice of the government and „smart“ economists to think of solving their economic mess with more immigrants, but there is already a housing crisis which needs to first be resolved for the people already living there, before they bring more people. And they need to create more jobs and lower taxation to improve quality of life.
I wasted so much time looking for a decent place to live in Germany. So much energy wasted here for that exact reason. It's crisis and they need to do something about it.
They don't want workers, they want slaves...keep that in mind. The system only functions with super low wages for the hardest working people...
Do what Canada does: You can elect to retire at 60 but you get less than someone who retires at 65 and substantially less than someone who retires at 70. This way there is a substantial incentive to hold on until 70 because you get more in the long run, and it's a personal choice.
They are already going the Canadian way. Trudeau taking in over 1 million immigrants per year and Germany taking 400k.
Some people can't work that long, then this is just a recipe for old-age poverty
It is already in place in Germany
I am worried about how she was proposing to do more of the same thing that has not produced results before. Germany needs a change of policy - to attract talent, to reduce taxes so that the talent stays, to remove beaurocratic hurdles for businesses, to reduce welfare state and labour reforms. The problem is that no one in power is even considering most of these things - some do mention it, but the intention is missing.
Germany should embrace English as one of its official languages because high-skilled immigrants wouldn't waste time learning grammatically difficult languages like German.
Germany already does 🙄
When I applied for financial support to start my own business (Gründungszuschuss), I stressed a lot to write my business plan in German. The unemployment office staff who checked my business plan then told me „we also speak English, you know“. And most legal documents are available in multiple EU languages.
Yeah, and then they should rename Germany to England
@@solarpowerfx I see that intellectual comments are in very short supply here 🙈
Provinding/ paying for german lessons could also help. Integration is key when speaking about immigrants. Language is a part of it. Unfortunately (in this context) people aren't like bricks.
The culture of a people is carried within their language. Having it spoken less means also that its culture will be deminished. Besides, anyone who wants to live and work anywhere in the world has to learn language and customs. That just is the bare minimum needed to adept.
So no Germany should not embrace English as an official language. What germany does already though is teach english in class and therefor anyone coming to germany and is able to speak english will hardly have a problem to communicate.
The only long term solution is to slowly get rid of the language barrier and accept English in every sector. Interestingly an important step to achieve this would be to get rid of the dinosaurs who don't know English from various positions.
How about cut the BS and get government officials, civil servants and self-employed to pay into the pension system, cut bureaucracy and incentivise ppl, help ppl build private equity instead of seemingly punishing them with regulations unfair tax and pension system.
After completing my master's in bioinformatics in Germany, I couldn't even land a cleaning job. My visa is about to expire, and this has happened to many people in my friend circle this year.
Maybe touch up your social skills and emotional intelligence .... People buy from People .
@@rodmarker2071nonsense. There is simply no labour shortage, this is a myth. And if your German is not perfect and you are brown, you will meet only closed doors.
Indian comments say they hate Germany
Other Indians say they want a job in Germany
IT jobs are redundant anyways. They need electricians and plumbers not people who know biology and programming 🙄
I am trying to come to Germany, but your comment scares me.
What DW dont tell you is that there are 45000 IT people waiting for a chance in the Berlin's JobCenter. I know this because I am one of them. Why not give a chance to the people that is already here?
is it ture ? when is this situation happening
@@vivekanantha9372 In Berlin. I am already 3 years unemployed and cannot get a job. There are several positions open, but when you apply you see that there are 300 other guys applying to the same position...
Leave Berlin many IT jobs in Germany. I know this because I work IT
Germans are ready to work, provide them good salary first.
Pay has decreased considerably since before COVID. Cost of living has gone up massively with inflation, yet people are earning less. That’s messed up!
That's important too but for different reasons. The problem here is a demographic one.
Well, the ruling Socialist party just proposed to fix the minimum wage at 15 €/h
They would prefer not to as it would reduce their own income. And who wants that?!
How about outlawing unproductive office email bullsh*t jobs and focusing the labor force towards essential sectors.
Amen to that.
The heading has a word “plan”. I didn’t hear anything about the “plan”. Is there a “plan”?
They first need to plan for a planning meeting about a planned plan
Too much taxes
I'd say low salaries is the problem. (when comparing to increasing living costs)
@@JoseFerreira-zb7wh both
@@HartlepoolLad if you raise salarys you can lower taxes. Only lowering taxes will take a toll on other things. (specially when talking about Germany) Some are earning too much so others earn very little, that's the big problem.
Yeah well it's not as high as in USA , I work 60-70h per week , its about 1000€ per month in taxes so it's not so bad
Immigrants are not interested to learn German language. Now Germany needs to decide if it wants immigrants or not. But once immigrants come and only learn the bare minimum German or sometimes not even that then don't do the surprise Pikachu face.
I am not saying that immigration is good or bad. That can be done by someone else. I am just highlighting a fact so that Germany government and Germany citizens don't have misunderstanding about immigration
Living costs have not kept up with wages. Germany is a has-been, who wants to work here? AI is going reform the labor market, not the slow and bureaucratic government of Germany. The woman in video has no idea what's coming.
Why would I move to a country where the local population want me out? Doesn't make sense to me
is it really that bad? I am supposed to go study there soon!
I am not interested to work in Germany.
Very useful piece of information
@@solarpowerfx I wanted to reply with the same comment 🤣
Thanks for telling us.
Neither - just wanna a good german beer 😂
Thanks for letting us know buddy. I couldn't go to bed withouth knowing if you would like to work in Germany or not.
Increasing the retirement age will not help the situation at all, as long as companies - that fueled by nothing else than corporate greed - are in a central position in the state. It will just delay and also increase the problem. It does nothing else than kick the can down the road a bit further, but with each meter, the can just gets bigger and heavier.
its a lie. i have applied for almost 100 jobs even though I have experience and I even didn't receive a reply to my applications
I can assure you, your case is the rule not the exception!
This is bitter but true. Germany suffers from hidden xenophobia. Germans underneath are deeply xenophobic. If they see 2 same candidates with equal abilities, one native German and other foreigner, they will give it to the native German. Only multinational companies operating in Germany try to refrain from this practice. This is true in renting market as well. This has put many qualified professionals away from Germany or they don’t even try. To be able to compete with China and US and tbh just to keep the German economic standard going, there is a social and cultural change required. I also agree with some of the comments here that taking asylum seekers is not a good idea to please the public that this is somehow going to solve the issue as it only will feed the right wing parties agenda.
I don't see any problem on this practice of giving priority to natives. Every country should do that.
@@blackvikingeire 😂😂😂 are you serious?
@@sayuri_vibes of course I am. Countries need immigration for areas where they lack. So if they have a local suitable for the role, why hire a foreigner?
@@blackvikingeire you missed the point here. I’m sure your comment was in good spirit to hire local people from the country. The problem here is Xenophobia. May be you should understand what Xenophobia actually means. Also this video was about declining population and resolving problem of declining workforce. Unless you have attractive prospects for any highly skilled and highly educated foreign worker, nobody would come. So you either start producing more and more native babies, give them a pill to be 21 year old in few months( along with magic skills and education) or suck with it and compromise with you economic standards. The problem is that people don’t understand how economy works and how standard of living is fully dependent on economic performance.
@@user-ey2of5bq4j "if they get two candidates with the same abilities... they will give it to the German...". That was the reason for my comment so don't try to divert as I commented something out of the blue. Second, if you think mass immigration is the solution for the long term you are delusional. Economy is not the only dimension in the life of a country.
If you are in an office job, the plan is to make you work till 70 it seems. Not to mention, pensions in the future will mostly be just a minimum wage for everyone. It should not be then surprising that no one wants to work full time. People are simply focusing on staying healthy till 90 instead.
Unless countries like Germany, Austria bring a Irish PRSA style pension where one can retire at 50, the situation is going to just get worse. 45 years to get full pension will already cancel Germany and its sister Austria out for most high income foreigners. Even for the best case of a 25 year old person with a degree, that is a retirement age of 70.
Yeah, I reckon making people work longer into old age with hardly any pension is only going to instead make more people want to move abroad to retire, with lower cost of living.
They need young immigrants to contribute to their Ponzi pension schemes, but they also need to be creating more jobs and enabling the existing workers to earn and live better without further threats to their jobs and income. And they need to fix the widening divide between rich and poor. It’s almost impossible for anyone to buy a house, save for old age, etc.
If there is no more immigration that'll be the destiny for the generations now at work, there is no going around this. There is no other short term solution. If you can retire early who is going to pay for the pensions of the next generations? And for every public instution? Atracting foreigner retirees shouldn't be allowed at least within the EU. It's just not fair. My country did that and it was recently fought by Sweden because a lot of their retirees were coming here. Receiving their pensions there and spending them here only to pay little or no tax is not fair for the rest of sweden and not fair for us that already live here, earn a lot less and have no tax breaks.
With Lower population and lower immigration who will pay to maintain the pension system?. It's unsustainable to ask the young to pay for a pension if they will likely won't see any of it and social services will be none existent as austerity takes over
If the childcare system was existing, we could both work 100%.. teilzeit is NOT a choice for us..
4:25 what a psychopath.
Honestly… not even Germans want to live in Germany, and they do speak the language fluently and are never targeted by racist xenophobic people, so… I guess if Germany really wants to attract foreign workforce, they should start by introducing English as an official language, and most importantly they should educate their people against the widespread xenophobia currently taking over the country. I’d never in good consciousness live in a place where random people look at me differently and tell me to leave.
Working in the IT field in Germany, the taxes are too high, and you can not expect to attract and keep skilled workers when we have to pay almost 4k in taxes every month. That's ridiculous. One loses motivation.
Basically they want cheap work worce that is prepared to work for minimum net salary 1500 EUR per month. I dont know what can u aford for 1500 EUR in Germany but i supose not much (shared flat, food, ....) not relly some space for savings. Would be interesting to hear from someone thats working in Germany about their experience.
Eh.. with technological advances, robots and AI, shouldn't there be less need to work instead of more?
If humanoid robots can do basic house and building construction work then owh my the world will change rapidly.
What's being said is that new jobs will surface, just like after previous major changes in the tech/ industrial front. Also most of the jobs taken by most immigrants aren't the ones easy to be replaced with ai. The more intelectual/ skilled dependent are.
I'm seem to be missing walking robots doing regular human labor around here. You?
Everything is possible with trillions of money. It's easier to move factories to other countries than to build robots in Germany.
It's already wide spread. Have you not seen grocery cashiers being replaced by machines in your country? Surgeons by AI is almost there. For your common cold, you won't need a regular doctor anymore soon. It's just a tech thing. Germany seems to be a decade behind.
What an amazing talk, Prof Ulrike Malmendier. Thanks for sharing.
What is in shortage are well paid blue collar jobs.
Well paid is the important part. Ruining health for something slightly higher than the welfare money? Times are over when Germans were willing to work just for the label "person with work".
Working 45 years on a production line, where you have a norm to fulfill, and 45 years in a cozy office job should be treated the same🤦 This kind of fairness could be only invented by persons that dont do manual labour.
Despite importing millions of newcomers into Europe, you still have a workers shortage. Why you might ask? Because these newcomers aren't skilled workers. Most of them are taxpayer burden, they can't work at a car factory, they can't operate a computer and they can't work an office job because they don't understand the language. Instead of reinvesting billions into the German economy, you spend it on housing, clothing and feeding the newcomers. So you are basically importing a lot of liability. The idea that you can transform these individuals into scientists, Doctors and engineers is naive.
Most of our population knows that. However, the greens and the reds don't seem to get it.
Don't really know the reality in Germany but that doesn't seem to add up. Last time i checked the milion sirians taken by Germany had really bossted the economy and was weel integrated in the comunity. You just can't expect to take hundreds and thousands in a short period of time and wait for them to magically fit in. Integration is key. The language is a part of it. If you don't want them, then you can't complain if you have to work till you die. They're the only solution in the short term.
High skilled workers that arrive in Germany realize they have better options elsewhere. It's a boring country for young people, highly taxed and full of headaches of bureaucracy and waiting times. Write an email to a few government entities, see for yourself they take 2-3 months to reply, if actually they do have an email address. Let alone customer service where sellers literally shout at customers.
@@SonnyDarvishzadeh no country is perfect. It can be highly taxed but it always comes with benefits. Germany has its downsides but it still undoubtedly one of the best countries to live in. Sure it always depends on preference, expectation, area of work, etc.
@@JoseFerreira-zb7wh Of course there was growth from bringing in new workers and customers but they don't have the same level of economic output as the average native and so push down the gdp per capita.
I am an EU citizen, engineer, fluent in English, with 21+ years of experience and I have sent around 100 CVs to work in Germany and I don't get hired. There is something wrong in it that should be investigated.
Because the guys who are reading your CV are not engineers but economists, who know nothing about the job...
There is a shortage of cheap workers with no rights. Workers who want a living wage already exist.
I know someone who is an EU citizen (and new German), freelance developer with 27+ years experience in the IT industry, has a university degree, speaks English and German, has worked freelance for 13+ years for clients like German government, banks, energy companies, Microsoft, TV stations - and since COVID is struggling to find freelance contracts (and ones that pay rates they earned before COVID, when actually they should be going up due to inflation, and not down 35%!).
THAT is messed up! The government needs to do something, or they will also face a brain drain, because the best talent will leave Germany for better cost of living, lower taxes, affordable accommodation. and better pay.
You might not be fluent in German, guess that's the problem. And that's why no one would be interested in moving over.
There is no shortage whatsoever. It’s a left wing myth created to justify their delusional open border policies.
job openings always require German language... and if they accept english only language only Indians are preferred... there are tons of english speaking professionals in South East Asia who are willing to relocate and work in Germany
Why many are not interested to come. Why the Americans and Indians relocate from Germany to other countries.
Retirement age of 70 is just aweful idea. Retirement age should not be more than 60 if life expectancy is 70 to 80. This is like slavery. It's better to ease immigration for educated and hardworking people who can integrate well and contribute to ecomomy
Better stay in India.
@@koushikdas1992 west is dead
Raise wages so people can afford to have children. Corporate greed will ruin most countries.
Did she say 45 years of working? So if you start at 25 after post graduation you still are expected to work till 70 till you should be allowed to retire comfortably?
As a legal immigrant who lives in the US and Europe, I have to say the environment is not so friendly in Europe.
that is to say the least.
As someone who lived in and visited many Asian countries, I have to say the environment is not so friendly in Europe. They put me in the "skilled worker" bucket, but I don't think that matters much.
So you can afford to live in both the US _and_ Europe. You can't be very poor, then. I wish Anglo-Saxons could afford to live & work in other countries.
@@Perun944 I don’t know what to say. All countries have rich and poor and I am definitely not rich but just a personal choice. Everyone can choose their own path with a bit help of luck.
@@wilg9400 Help or luck aren't options everybody has.
They better stop all this paper work and digitalize everything
Stop making young people pay for old people… especially when they had it better than us when they were our age. Old people are double dipping.
If the Pay was not so low, I would 100% move tomorrow to Germany. I would learn the language without an issue.
While I kmow the cost of living is less, I would still want something comprable to my US salary
Unless you are earning below 70k in the US, do not bother. It will be a drop in living standards IMO.
@@SolomonSunder thats what i was afraid of, that why i would want something to match my US salary, but doubt id get that in Germany. Place like Norway, or sweden maybe, but their cost of living is significantly higher
You probably would have problems with the 'Culture Schock'
6 weeks paid holiday
Beer without chemicals
Car Free City Centres, people walk on the sidewalks and say hello
Great Public Transport (Mass transit)
No speed limits on the Freeway , No Tolls
I am Brit and I am so suffering here , the people just work to live and have fun, not live to work ...
@@rodmarker2071 I’ve lived in Spain twice now, and been to Germany a couple of times as well. I know how it’ll be there.
They follow rules for some odd reason, are hard to make laugh, but It’s overall a good country.
Although I will take 0 attention to the beer comment, coming from a country that has warm beer.
Our is just superior 100% as we have way too many craft beers to try in our lifetimes.
But I will have more access to Belgium beers, as my local liquor chain only stocks about 50 different Belgium beers.
I actually take more holiday than the 6 weeks
People here say hello, probably more than the entire world combined, it’s what we are known for in certain areas, and I have seen many cars in the city centers in Germany and the rest of the EU. Either way it doesn’t bother me.
I love Berlin and Hamburg’s public transport system, and the country is a lot warmer in winter than where I live.
But I would still need an equivalent salary to what I make now, as I don’t want to sacrifice my standards.
@@ricardoxelmundo5330 luxembourg, switzerland pay better
Not interested, Germany is boring
Soo whats the plan?
"a preference for part-time work"? I don't understand this. Workers are only working part-time because they can live a comfortable life on this salary?
So more of the same, which looking back did not solve anything, but instead lead to more problems. Listening to economists is inviting insanity.
It’s economists that screwed up economies in the USA, UK, Germany, etc with the Ponzi-scheme currencies. These are all collapsing, along with pension schemes! So much for these genius economists!
Hopefully, A.I. will be able to provide better solutions and then we will no longer need these „intelligent economists“ 🙈
Hang on.... didn't Germany take in a MILLION syrians in 2015......and of that million i beleive only around 30pc have jobs.......why dont you make the others work?????😂😂😂😂😂
Foreigners must learn German for at least 2 years to have a B2 Niveau. And that does not ensure that you will get a job later. What can you expect?
Not a reason to let anyone in and give them money 🙄
Even as of 1:04 this seems consistent with what Peter Zeihan is saying, and he talks about demographics a lot. I never understood until about a year ago that one measure of the health of a nation is more babies. And Germany, Russia, or China don't have many of those. Well if Putin goes nuclear, it won't matter anymore.
Or, invest in Germans' skillset, pay them well and they will want to have babies.
maybe this is the main point they should avoid discussing at all costs!
In next 5 years only -0.6%, did you mean 16%, the working age population is going to shrink by 20%, its a catastrophe.
Passing a more progressive immigration policy in any of the developed nations is a hard sell now. Here in Canada an anti-immigration sentiment is on the rise! How's that for our known politeness.
Can Kate take that smirk from her face? She will have same expression even if shes talking about a tragedy
Maybe higher payment would lead people to to work in less popular workplaces hust hust
If I was born in Nigeria, where the life expectancy is about 52 years, and moved to Germany when I am 25, does my life expectancy suddenly jump up to 80 years?
I don't know Nigeria or Germany but my guess is public hospitals I Germany would provide better care.
“Bang for the buck” she said..
..“Experiments”.. “aging too fast” 😂
Were are the jobs , I have an ms degree but i am not able to find any job... every one is hiring guys with 3-4 years experience.
Sorry for the tough love.
A very good reform would be to increase the minimum wage , digitize !!.
Find yourself a wife, who looks at you the way the journalist looks at the interviewee.
Hey Germany look towards China they have many workers and they will gladly and easily learn the German language. Plus they’re the highest skilled and quality workers you will find. People from India prefer English speaking countries and those countries prefer lower wage and low quality tech workers and skilled workers so that’s why many in India go there.
France revised their retirement age and faced riots... I think Germany should think seriously about the consequences 😅
It’s just the Frenchs favourite past time activity
If u could retire in Asia please do
Don't think Germany has a labour problem, with a phd in biotech and unemployed for 1.5 yrs looking for jobs...
How about subsidizing children instead of replacing the indigenous ?
U can't force anyone , and children are expensive
That costs a lot of money and you don't see the benefits till after a generation. The dimension of the problem in developed countries has to have faster responses and the only short term ones rely on immigration really. There is no other way. That's why this all refusal to take immigrants right now is completely dumb. If you don't take immigrants (or more of them) you'll have to work till you die. Choose.
how about paying reparations to namibia and togo 😀
How about not destabilizing countries in middle east?
@@Ex-Muslim334 Hence "subsidize", to make the children less expensive.
Outsourcing to other countries can work to some degree (IT). But the Germans need to up their game when it comes to English communication.
As long as Germany doesn't abandon its outdated class-based education system, where practical labor is deemed inferior to academic degrees, none of these professions will become attractive to young people.
What about forcing to work those that receive Bürgergeld, payed Apartment and all possible social discounts? And let people that earned their pension to retire at the age they expected to retire after working hard for decades.
I live in Germany and someone sprayed "Ausländer raus!" in front of my apartment. What does that mean? 🤷♂
It's a racist exclamation. Sorry to hear you have to go through that...
Europeans being europeans.
Thats really bad but it also means that you havent bothered to integrate by learning the language. Then again better Germany than Iran, no?
Seriously ? You can use CZcams but not Google ?
Ich glaube dir überhaupt nicht
@@rodmarker2071 I doubt Sonny asked for a literal translation, he was asking what it meant about German attitudes to immigrant workers. Rhetorically.
Germany need people with phds and AI graduates.. Not the labour class.. Age of mechanical era is gone already. Now its age of Robotics and AI and Green technology
Even for AI or STEM the criteria for beginners are like Seniors even for werkstudents.
Lol she cant look in anyones eye
Oh yes, raise taxes and the retirement age... or move to America, where you can earn double, have guaranteed retirement benefits, and enjoy better housing options. The only good things about Germany are the worker benefits, "cheap healthcare," and safety.
Also in America you can invest in a TAX FREE retirement fund not a scam that Germany uses now
Consequences of your own action😅😅
Ulrike Malmendier für Chancellor
What kind of shortages? Germany is in recession there are not enough jobs, even if it is, high chance to get laid off during probation due to lack of work. Its a high risk for people to leave every thing behind in their home country.
Why would one work on long hours in exhausting jobs while others gain more without even really working? If a job its not attractive economically then its going to die.
Hay brains ageing takes an 'e'! Love from Canada!
This country is so rigid when comes to adopt changes.Germany want to survive the competition in their own terms only which is fairly not possible.Accept the change or people make you the last option.
Lets see how retirement ages increase goes down politically with the population 🍿
No thanks. I am not going to work in a soon to be middle eastern country
have they asked Turks?
Means? I didn't understand.
How about this?: eliminate the bias for employees over entrepreneurs. Welcome this new wave of immigrants as potential owners as opposed to "guest workers" serving an essentially closed market full of mostly white incumbents
Every 60 seconds, two minutes pass in Germany
Start investing on promoting immigrants in Germany; teach your citizens to be nicer towards them; campaign to change AFD adherence by showing how the rest of the world is happy and human and not simple beggars; show Germans how positive immigration can be because all you do is to make it seem as though people are there to take and not give. Slavery is over!
Be like Poland, accept English-based roles, and offer tax benefits like b2b contracts.
You have the GDP per capita, longer it takes, Poland thanks
Stop benefits and everyone works .
Germany has to reform the banking system to make it possible to get loans
The problem lies deeper than loans.
@@revitech8378 of course but making capitalism function would be a first good step, next move government services online, but I doubt they’ll succeed in either of those after living there 20 years
The media space is suffering in from "bipolar acute syndrome". It oscillates between the AI will cause massive unemployment and there will be a massive labor shortage.... 🤦
Whichever doomsday scenario brings in more clicks...
Immigrants from which countries will come? Not Europe, not North America, not East Asia, only remaining Asia and Africa?
Reform your bureaucracy and xenophobia first 😔
DW has ran out of work and they have nothing else to do, nothing new is happening so go after the same old things