Le gouvernement allemand pense sérieusement a mettre en application les recommandations du dernier rapport de l'OCDE qui l'insite a ouvrir les portes pour les ingénieurs étrangers de toutes les spécialités en vue d'assurer une croissance économique durable.l'OCDE se défend aussi d'encourager au 'BRAIN DRAIN' ca ne serait qu'un mythe,un ingénieur qui émigre aurait pu étre rester au chomage dans son pays d'origine ,La barriére actuelle de 80 000 euros en allemagne nécessaire pour obtenir un permis de travail pourrait étre réduite a 40 000 euros.Entre l'immigration choisie de sarko et le Auslaendische Fachkraefte Anwerbung d'angie ,les bons ingénieurs maghrébins n'auront que l'embarras du choix pour ceux qui veulent s'expatrier.
OECD recommends that Germany make it easier for specialists to immigrate
Annette Schavan, the Federal Minister of Education and Research (Christian Democratic Union; CDU), believes a new report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) strengthens her position in favor of removing obstacles to immigration. "Germany has to make it absolutely clear that it is very interested in foreign talent," the minister told the southern German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung. The government spokesman Ulrich Wilhelm in addition mentioned a "qualification campaign," which, he said, would be presented in the autumn. This would contain a "bundle of measures," he added. According to Mr. Wilhelm it was also time for Germany's laws on immigration to be subjected to scrutiny.
"Germany will have to react faster and more vigorously than most of the other OECD countries to the shrinking of its working population," it says in the report by the OECD. If the federal government wanted to avoid a severe shortage of skilled workers and experts the time to act was now, the report notes. Especially with regard to highly qualified workers "it might be necessary to remove obstacles to immigration now, so as to satisfy the demand of the labor market in the short term."
Besides Japan and Italy Germany was the only industrialized country in which at present the working age population, i.e. that section of the population aged between 15 and 64, was shrinking, it says in the report. Should the trend continue the number of persons in Germany capable of gainful employment would drop by 6 percent by 2020, the report goes on to say. If it was the policy of Germany to counter the decline of its working population through immigration the number of immigrants would have to be increased drastically to "150,000 people per annum for the period up to 2010 alone; and in all likelihood in the long term to a figure significantly higher than that." On the other hand, almost half of the 30 OECD countries can, according to the report, expect the gainfully employed segment of their population to stay the same or rise.
German immigration legislation stipulates that a foreign worker must earn 85,500 euros a year to qualify for a right of residence. Ms. Schavan has called for this minimum amount to be lowered to 60,000 or 40,000 euros. Franz Müntefering, the Federal Minister of Labor and Social Affairs (Social Democratic Party; SPD), is said to oppose easing restrictions on immigration, in view of the high level of unemployment in the Federal Republic. Brigitte Pothmer, the spokesperson on labor market policy of the Green Party, has, on the other hand, called the obstacles to immigration faced by foreign workers "absurdly high."
The OECD report is likely to bolster the arguments of the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW) and Microsoft, which a short time ago on the occasion of the presentation of a joint study had lamented the lack of specialists. The Association of the German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHT), the trade unions and Bitkom, the German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media, have likewise claimed to have detected a shortage of specialists and skilled workers. According to the DIHT one in three German companies of the manufacturing sector already has difficulties filling vacancies. One of the principal arguments repeatedly put forth is that this lack of skilled workers and experts is threatening the upswing that Germany is currently experiencing. (Robert W. Smith) / (jk/c't)
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OECD recommends that Germany make it easier for specialists to immigrate
Annette Schavan, the Federal Minister of Education and Research (Christian Democratic Union; CDU), believes a new report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) strengthens her position in favor of removing obstacles to immigration. "Germany has to make it absolutely clear that it is very interested in foreign talent," the minister told the southern German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung. The government spokesman Ulrich Wilhelm in addition mentioned a "qualification campaign," which, he said, would be presented in the autumn. This would contain a "bundle of measures," he added. According to Mr. Wilhelm it was also time for Germany's laws on immigration to be subjected to scrutiny.
"Germany will have to react faster and more vigorously than most of the other OECD countries to the shrinking of its working population," it says in the report by the OECD. If the federal government wanted to avoid a severe shortage of skilled workers and experts the time to act was now, the report notes. Especially with regard to highly qualified workers "it might be necessary to remove obstacles to immigration now, so as to satisfy the demand of the labor market in the short term."
Besides Japan and Italy Germany was the only industrialized country in which at present the working age population, i.e. that section of the population aged between 15 and 64, was shrinking, it says in the report. Should the trend continue the number of persons in Germany capable of gainful employment would drop by 6 percent by 2020, the report goes on to say. If it was the policy of Germany to counter the decline of its working population through immigration the number of immigrants would have to be increased drastically to "150,000 people per annum for the period up to 2010 alone; and in all likelihood in the long term to a figure significantly higher than that." On the other hand, almost half of the 30 OECD countries can, according to the report, expect the gainfully employed segment of their population to stay the same or rise.
German immigration legislation stipulates that a foreign worker must earn 85,500 euros a year to qualify for a right of residence. Ms. Schavan has called for this minimum amount to be lowered to 60,000 or 40,000 euros. Franz Müntefering, the Federal Minister of Labor and Social Affairs (Social Democratic Party; SPD), is said to oppose easing restrictions on immigration, in view of the high level of unemployment in the Federal Republic. Brigitte Pothmer, the spokesperson on labor market policy of the Green Party, has, on the other hand, called the obstacles to immigration faced by foreign workers "absurdly high."
The OECD report is likely to bolster the arguments of the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW) and Microsoft, which a short time ago on the occasion of the presentation of a joint study had lamented the lack of specialists. The Association of the German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHT), the trade unions and Bitkom, the German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media, have likewise claimed to have detected a shortage of specialists and skilled workers. According to the DIHT one in three German companies of the manufacturing sector already has difficulties filling vacancies. One of the principal arguments repeatedly put forth is that this lack of skilled workers and experts is threatening the upswing that Germany is currently experiencing. (Robert W. Smith) / (jk/c't)
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