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German retirees who continue working set to earn โ‚ฌ2,000 a month tax-free (www.theguardian.com)
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[โ€“] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

At the risk of sounding obtuse, what shortage?

[โ€“] DandomRude@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Healthcare (especially nursing), STEM professions, finance, skilled trades, and many more. Here is an overview.

I can personally confirm that tax advisors are desperately seeking accountants, and nursing companies and hospitals are seeking nursing staff.

Just because the total number of vacancies is declining does not mean that the vacancies can be filled. There is still a shortage of trained specialists in many places.

[โ€“] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thanks for the post. But also German Unemployment at 6.1%

I can't speak to Germany, but here in Canada the corporate and largely American owned media talk about labour shortages so they can get Temporary foreign labourers into Canada as a cheap, disposable, easily intimidated and oppressed workforce, while Canadians have 7.1% unemployment.

[โ€“] theolodis@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well, fact is also that most of those that are unemployed are of lower education (this is for people ages 25-34, and ISCED 0-2 led to 8.7% unemployment in 2023 vs 2.9% accross mid and high education.

Now you could of course say, let's just educate those people and get them to work, but in Germany education is already free, if they could, they would.

Another point is that the qualified positions are often exhausting manual labour, like being a nurse in a retirement home. And on top of that, it's often positions in places that are not very attractive, which means that you can only pick from the local population, or recruit from abroad, where people are willing to live a simple life in a german village, because they still consider it better than what they have (because of the pay, the security or whatever reasons).

[โ€“] verdi@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Supply and demand, increase the wages for those positions. Hiring foreign workers as an avenue to artificially keeping wages down is not a good policy. Also, hiring extra-EU workers because their visa status is linked to their work status is the most pure distilled human exploitation.

[โ€“] theolodis@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

I don't disagree, but let's assume the prices for all essential positions rise, wouldn't they just get filled with people that do currently hold lower paid positions? Do we then also raise the wages for those?

I agree though that raising wages for positions like nurse, teacher, medical doctor, garbage collector are highly needed and would lead to those positions being filled and specialists not going to other countries.