Why Germany is not attractive for foreign workers

Deutsche Weil ^ | 10 March 2023 | Ben Knight

[Cronos]

Germany is becoming less attractive to top foreign talents, according to a new Bertelsmann/OECD study that will worry Olaf Scholz's government, which is trying to get more foreign skilled workers to fill labor market gaps.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) "Indicators of Talent Attractiveness," released on Thursday, shows Germany slipped from 12th place in 2019 to 15th this year among the 38 OECD countries. The analysis is based on seven "dimensions" that foreign talents are said to value: Quality of opportunities, income and tax, future prospects, family environment, skills environment, inclusiveness, and quality of life.

The study isolated four groups of people that governments hope to attract — highly-qualified specialists, businesspeople, start-up founders, and international students — and found that in only one of those groups, the students, was Germany ranked in the top 10. The top four countries were New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, and Australia, with the UK and the US in 7th and 8th place

.. .Mara knows more about the pluses and minuses of moving to Germany than most. Having previously lived in the UK, the 30-year-old Romanian was delighted to find a good job in advertising in Berlin. But after a year in Germany, she's already planning a way out. "Maybe I'll stay another year or two, but I'm not planning long-term anymore," she told DW. "I'll stay in Germany, but I don't see myself here for the next five or 10 years."

Getting a job was the easy part. She has since struggled with the bureaucracy, with finding an apartment in Berlin's notoriously difficult market, and with learning German. Loneliness has played a role too: Initially forced to work at home by the coronavirus pandemic, she has found it hard to make social contacts

[algore]

'Mara knows more about the pluses and minuses of moving to Germany than most'

Mara (Sanskrit: मार, Māra; Sinhala: මාරයා; Chinese: 天魔; pinyin: Tiānmó or traditional Chinese: 魔羅; simplified Chinese: 魔罗; pinyin: Móluó; Japanese: 魔羅, romanized: Mara; also マーラ, Māra or 天魔, Tenma; Tibetan Wylie: bdud; Khmer: មារ; Burmese: မာရ်နတ်; Thai: มาร, Vietnamese: ma rà), in Buddhism, is a malignant celestial king who tried to stop Prince Siddhartha achieving Enlightenment by trying to seduce him with his celestial Army and the vision of beautiful women who, in various legends, are often said to be Mara's daughters.[1]

In Buddhist cosmology, Mara is associated with death, rebirth and desire.[2] Nyanaponika Thera has described Mara as "the personification of the forces antagonistic to enlightenment

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It’s no surprise that Germany attracts students. Don’t they charge little or no tuition there.

For the rest, I don’t think Germans should be overly concerned. They aren’t trying to attract financial operators and wildcat entrepreneurs. They are more oriented towards the group and towards stability. Their strength in recent years would seem to be more in the successful application of what’s been developed elsewhere than in pioneering. As the biggest economy in Europe, maybe they also benefit from EU protectionist measures.

[pepsionice]

I’d say there are four essential problems for a foreigner to arrive and engage in German work.

1. Wages will rarely make sense with the cost of living in high urbanized living areas (Hamburg, Berlin, Frankfurt for example).

2. Affordable housing is a joke.

3. With taxation/pension figured in....you go home with approximately 55-percent of your pay.

4. If you did have better ideas or perceptions about a product/service, it’s a difficult process to ‘drag’ German management to change.

[cuz1961]

Huh

And here I thought the biggest detterent to moving there were the Muslim rape gangs that your daughters have to escape while walking to school or riding public transportation.

[pepsionice]

Well...on public transportation...at least they don’t have train derailments weekly. This might be a positive. Course, the onboard toilets probably only function half-the-time.

[cuz1961]

...at least they don’t have train derailments weekly.

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Do they have an EPA that makes it highly illegeal to pour vinyl chloride into an open pit and burn it ,,,

, except when the EPA does it ?

Maybe the rape gangs ARE the safer circumstance.

[pepsionice]

There’s some German national ‘rule-book’ for fire-safety/accidents, and there’s no loose orders given. If the book says you do ‘x’ in this type of element leak, that’s the only method to be used.

This is what I don’t understand on that Ohio derailment....it’s like you have 10 menu choices and each time, they make up an order out of thin air.

[linMcHlp]

Specifically, Moscow is at war against the “Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)”

OECD is the “new,” “enlightened,” “de-centralized,” “progressive,” “diverse, inclusive, and ex-binary (DIE)” marketing for iron-fisted, old-fashioned, totalitarian intolerant socialism.

OECD is the fruit from the spawn of all the years of Moscow aitprop designed to cause dissent, division, and un-rest in the west.

Eggheads at OECD imagine their self-determining empowerment, but not that for other people. SAT and ACT testing to be replaced by OECD testing.

Marx would be amazed, at how his “platform” has been expanded into volumes of . . . volumes, intended to MAKE SOCIALISM WORK.

I would like Ukrainian farmers and actual land property owners, to regain their property and freedom in Ukraine.

But at the moment, I am inclined to be wary of what will be effectively The Green Zone set up by:

- the EU
- the OECD
- the globalist club

... in some part of Ukraine where the hundreds of acres “campus” can be built, from where so much OECD-ism will be broadcast.

[Cronos]

Moscow is at war with Ukraine.

Not with NATO, not with the OECD, not with anyone else.

Moscow invaded Ukraine and is at war with Ukraine. No one else

[Organic Panic]

From personal experience.

Berlin was not very expensive compared to other large cities.
There were plenty of tech jobs, mine was engineering.
Merkel coddle the illegal violent invaders and the place became unlivable.
Live without the bill of rights for a few years