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Immigration will benefit Germany’s labour market

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Subject

The impact of immigration on Germany’s labour market.

Significance

The concentrated influx of migrants into Germany since mid-2014 has generated acute challenges for the state. There is a tension between the economy's long-term need for immigration to compensate for the country’s ageing and declining population, and the short-term social and political concerns associated with integrating non-European migrants with an Islamic cultural background into German communities.

Impacts

  • Pockets of resistance and sporadic acts of hostility against migrants will persist, especially in East Germany.
  • The success of initial local integration efforts will be judged in upcoming regional elections in three federal states.
  • Migration will be an important issue -- though only one of several -- in the run-up to the federal election in September.

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