The German economy is weakening – and yet many areas are in dire need of skilled workers, including medical businesses, special nursing, as well as, and construction. Germany lacks teachers, cooks and people who can drive trucks and buses. At the end of 2024, nationwide German companies had about 1.4 million unfilled positions.
At the same time, more and more immigrants are coming to Germany to work. In 2024, the ratio of employees is only more than 16%. This has exceeded double since 2010. Employment in medical businesses is very high. One of more than six doctors is a foreign national. In nursing, employment growth Sion 2022 is specially characterized by personnel. Currently, one of the five workers in the region is an immigrant.
Thinking about leaving
But do the thesis people really want to live in Germany in a long time? The Institute for Employment Research (IAB) is now in the Federal Employment Agency Presented a study on this issueBased on an online survey of 50,000 people born abroad, which came to Germany between 18 and 65. The survey involves shelter seekers, who have not yet recognized the status of the residence in Germany. The survey period lasted from December 2024 to April 2025.
“Twenty -six percent, or about 2.6 million people, say they actually consider leaving Germany last year, that is, he thought of leaving the country,” Yulia Kosakova said, the major of the migration, integration and international laboratory market research division, in IAB, in IAB, as Shhhe, as Shhhe, as Shhhe, Shhe, as Shhhe, stated the data of the study in the Berlin. “About 3%, or 300,000 people, are already to leave solid plans.”
Germany as a stopover
About half of those who do not want to live want to return to their original country, while the other half wants to go to another country. Poland and Romania are the most popular destinations among those who want to return. And for the migrants that we want to go to a third country, people expressed Switzerland, America or Spain as top -hygiene sites.
IAB researcher Katia Galigos Torres said, “An important discovery of our survey is that it is thought to work or study properly for Germany, which are better educated or more financially successful and who have a better command of German language plans.”
Emotion is a risk for Germany
Especially a master’s degree or doctoral and high -earning immigrants have considered leaving Germany in the last twelve months. “IT, finance, and business-related services in knowledge-intensive service sectors are discovered, considering those surveyed between 30% and 39%,” Galigos Torres said.
There are “important” emigration trends in healthcare, manufacturing and logistics. “In summary, thesis is exactly those who need to secure their efficient laboratory force immediately. This selective emigration pose a lot of risk for the economic future of Germany.”
High tax and growth
But what are the reasons? Family reasons play a major role for home returnings, while immigrants who want to go to another country are mainly looking for better career opportunities and high earnings.
The reasons for taxes and social security contributions and much more bureaucracy are often cited in Germany. There are experiences of discrimination added to it.
“About two-thirds of the immigrants report, for example, in public places, or policy exposure to policy,” says Galigos Torres says. “A third of immigrants feel that Ether does not welcome exactly or only a little. These are factors that enhance the trend to a great extent.”
There is an effective effect in political mood
The study shows that the political atmosphere in Germany has played a role. “In 2024, the debate was not particularly more dominated by the debate, and social acceptance on the issue of migration,” Kosakova said.
Just a quarter of people in Germany have some migration background children. Some 21 million people have either come to Semeleves in Germany since 1950 or are parents. Some 6.5 million people have come to Germany alone since 2015. The largest groups of them are Syrian and Ukrainian.
In the federal elections in February, a distance option for Germany (AFD), which advocates the exile of millions of non-German roots, became the second strongest political force in the country. Meanwhile, Conservative CDU won the election after promising a difficult immigration policy.
Now in the alliance with the Center-Left Social Democrats (SPD), CDU’s first migration policy measure was to expand the limit control.
Similarly, the plan to allow well -integrated immigrants to obtain citizenship was established by the final government, which was immediately abolished. Kosakova said, “These big debates about migration and migration policy have a negative effect on the people, on the feeling of reception, on the experience of discrimination,” Kosakova said. “Thesis is the reason that people report that they are planning to think more often or really quit Germany.”
Germany can not emigrate
Experts continuously calculate that Germany requires around 400,000 additional migrants per year that will be permanently to maintain the ability of their labor force.
This, they argue, is the only way to balance demographic trends. Germany is an aging country. There are more and less pension in work and less and less people. This not only leads to a laboratory deficiency, but is therefore a lacquer of government revenue to finance pension.
Against this background, IAb study shows that “not only immigration, but therefore the long -term retention of immigrants is a significant challenge,” according to Koskova.
Inspire people to live
Overall, there are many indications that the government has taken measures to reduce bureaucracy, simplify the recognition of merit, increase digitization and to provide tax brakes, which can reduce the trend specificly, uniquely, among professional successful immigrants, Ib researchers say. However, they say that “broad and honest” requires social acceptance.
Meanwhile, the CDU is now calling Firing Medical Students, who are not being allowed to leave so easy after graduation. Anyone who studies in Germany should follow his studies by working as a doctor for at least five years – preferably in the rural area of Germany, where the lack of medical professionals is increasing. “Those who do not want to do so should pay the cost of this first -class education,” said the CDU Group Vice President in Parliament. The Ministry of Health run by CDU has welcomed the proposal. State Secretary in the Ministry Tino Sorge said, “We should attract young doctors instead of leaving them instead of working in Germany.”
This article was original in German.
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