Migrants, including asylum-seekers, have made a critical contribution to providing skills to the German labour market over the past decade, Germany's Federal Employment Agency (BA) said on Tuesday, reported dpa.
Foreign nationals accounted for 43% of employment growth between June 2014 and June 2025, with around one-third coming from the eight countries of origin of most asylum-seekers, the Nuremberg-based agency said.
Without immigration, the labour force would have fallen drastically, it said.
The number of German nationals of working age declined by 3.9 million between 2014 and 2024, while the number of foreign nationals of working age rose by 3.4 million over the same period.
"This shift can be attributed to successful labour market integration," BA executive member Daniel Terzenbach said. "Refugees have made a considerable contribution to the growth in employment," he added.
Terzenbach noted that the number of those in full-time employment from the main refugee countries had more than doubled over the past five years, with Syria and Afghanistan being the main contributors.
BA chief executive Andrea Nahles has, however, noted that the actual and potential workforce will for the first time fall by around 40,000 in 2026, with a rising trend, given underlying demographic change.
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Source: www.dailyfinland.fi
