Germany goes from labour shortages to hiring freezes
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#3Jokes on FT, we have both
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#4Jokes on FT, we have both
"We" refers to Germany?
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#5There was never a labor shortage, just a shortage of pay from unscrupulous employers being addicted to cheap labor.
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#6Creating an ever-larger union makes goods cheap(er) by moving jobs out of expensive markets.
Surprised?
Re: Germany goes from labour shortages to hiring freezes
#7There was never a labor shortage, just a shortage of pay from unscrupulous employers being addicted to cheap labor.
Luckily they’ve brought in plenty of people eager to sacrifice short term being exploited for long term exploiting others.
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#9The article is low quality. It talks a bit about the problem, not about the cause and it does not help anyone.
The example at the beginning seems to be a now classic "I have a degree in an area where supply greatly exceeds demand". There is demand, there is supply, but there is a misalignment of qualifications and interests. If "well-qualified people" means fresh graduates in domains with low demand, then the qualification does not matter. In areas like constructions and handymen there is a serious shortage, if not a crisis, in the entire Western Europe. There are jobs, but not the ones most people want.
Too many people go to universities for a degree without checking if there is demand for these degree. Many that I know go to universities just to have a degree, they don't even care what is the domain. I have a childhood friend that is regularly unemployed, he is a historian, but he does not like working in archeological sites and there is not enough need for historians. At the same time we cannot find enough people for construction works, it is hard work and most people don't want it (diversity and equality does not work in such jobs, never did).