A year after the start of the war in Ukraine, the German labor market was significantly strengthened by Ukrainian refugees. Some 86,000 of the country’s men and women work in Germany, Daniel Terzenbach, director of Germany’s Federal Employment Office, told the DPA news agency.
“Everyone contributes to the fight against staff shortages. The German labor market can absorb them well,’ says Terzenbach. He expects the number of Ukrainian workers to increase significantly in the coming weeks and months once they complete integration and language courses.
Labor market supplement
Terzenbach predicts that more graduates with good language skills will enter the job market, especially from the summer onwards. ‘We have consciously tried to make people’s qualifications recognizable and usable’.
During a previous wave of refugees, mainly from Syria from 2014 to 2016, the goal was to have 50% of people in work after five or six years. This was achieved despite restrictions during the corona pandemic.
Source: BNR
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