Sunday, January 31, 2016
REPORT: Economic Benefits Of Migration Debunked, ‘A Reservoir For Low-Cost Labour’
The report for German paper Die Welt
entitled “The Truth about the Refugee Job Wonder” asks if German
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s pronouncement that migrants will be the
“labour revitalisation” of Germany is actually true? It turns out
Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis are more likely to be unemployed than the
average German by a large margin.
The Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
has conducted research into migrant employment rates and found that in
the case of Syrians their employment rate has dropped from 32 percent to
only 9 percent as recently as last November.
Afghanis and Iraqis, who are increasingly becoming a larger proportion of migrants coming into the EU according
to Frontex, don’t fare much better, with Afghan employment
participation going from 37.6 percent to 24.5 percent and Iraqi
employment going from 34 percent to 25.3 percent over the same five year
period. To put this in perspective, the employment rate of the average
German is 67.3 percent.
Migrants have an especially difficult
time and even those with professional qualifications tend to have a hard
time becoming employed. It is actually easier, according to the report,
for an unskilled native worker.
According to IFO Institute for Economic Research migration expert Gabriel Felbermayr, “We
know that people who come as refugees, much more difficult to integrate
into the labor market than those who immigrate to work,” and said,
“Usually it takes at least a generation,” until the employment rate,
“has approached the domestic population.”
This amount of time to enter the
workforce presents huge problems for the welfare system that the
migrants are thought to be able to prop up. Often the countries which
they come from improve and conditions allow them to go back, meaning a
zero return on investment from the costs associated with housing and
education.
Employers often fail to recognise the
qualifications of migrants from Africa and the Middle East as they have
found their education not comparable to a European equivalent
qualification. This leads many former professionals to low paid work and
the report says, “for companies the refugees are mainly REPORT:
Economic Benefits Of Migration Debunked, ‘A Reservoir For Low-Cost
Labour’,” and not the engineers and academics many left wing media
sources have said.
The report seems rather late when
economists from elsewhere have been saying that the migrants will be a
net negative for the German economy and rather than a benefit.
Migration Watch UK already debunked a report that tried to explain the economic benefits of the migrant crisis. They determined, as Die Welt
has, that putting over a million people on welfare, paying for
retraining, language courses, accommodation and the like only takes more
money from the German taxpayer instead of supposedly propping up
Germany’s decaying welfare state.
The German people themselves appear wiser
than the experts who argue the economic benefit. It was revealed that
only 16 percent of them believe Chancellor Merkel’s idea of a
migrant-fuelled economic miracle, as Breitbart London has reported.
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