Germany welcomed refugees, and now they’re helping the economy. Terrific story in the @washingtonpost from @griffwitte and @LuiBeck about the positive impacts of accepting refugees -- for then and for their host country. https://t.co/QYTXRzYIqL
— Anna Fifield (@annafifield) 2019年5月6日
with the national unemployment rate at a 30-year-low, young Germans have lost their appetite for vocational training. Companies face a shortage of skilled workers that could ultimately derail their growth.
“We have real reasons — not just soft, feel-good ones — to assist and help and push refugees into vocational training,” said Günter Hirth, an economist with the Chamber of Commerce in the central German city of Hanover. “The German economy needs qualified workers.”
Whether it can find them among the refugee population could determine the answer to two of the country’s most daunting questions: Can Germany integrate its vast numbers of asylum seekers? And can its economy continue to hum as the native-born population ages?
On both counts, early indications have been promising, if inconclusive.
With a shrinking native population, Germany desperately needs those young people.
“If Germans want to maintain their economic well-being, we need about half a million immigrants every year,” said Wolfgang Kaschuba, former director of the Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research. “We need to guarantee that our society stays young, because it’s aging dramatically.”
Other factors that hold down participation rates include the possibility that an asylum seeker could be deported. Few companies want to invest in a worker who is still applying for refugee protection and may be turned down.
The German government has made some effort to ease that worry, instituting what is known as the 3-plus-2 rule: Rejected asylum seekers can stay in their traineeships for three years and work for at least two more without worrying about being shipped out. Proven skills and a work history can then be an advantage when they reapply to stay.
難民にドイツ語教育と職業訓練して、高齢化で人材不足のドイツの社会問題を解消。
難民審査に不合格で退去の危険はあるが、難民審査に通らなくても、企業の研修は3年、その後2年は退去させられずに働けるから、企業が難民に投資する価値もあるんだ、と。
ーーー日本も人材不足、人材不足と言っている。現在、不法滞在や難民審査中でのひとのなかで、日本語ができて、職業技術が身に付いて人たちに合理的に活用しない手はない。
不法入国、不法滞在を助長することなしに、日本で、合法的に働いているもらえるような智慧はいくらでもあるはず。
