Finally stop the influx into the social system
A new study shows how wrong labor migration is going.
There are groups of migrants whose employment rate is well above average, Agenda Austria has found. Germans, Hungarians, Slovenians and Slovaks, for example.
And there are groups that have a far above-average impact on unemployment statistics, if they are registered as job seekers at all. This is particularly true of Syrians, Afghans and Serbs.
And no: this is not racism. It is empirical. And it is consistent with similar studies elsewhere. For example, the Economist conducted a study in 2018 based on data from the Danish Ministry of Finance.
It showed that Danes themselves and many migrant groups in the occupationally relevant age cohorts (20 to 65) make a positive contribution to public finances. In other words, they pay in more than they get out through the social system.
But there is one major exception: The so-called MENAPT group (Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan, Turkey) does not manage this. They remain net recipients for life. There are many reasons for this: lack of qualifications, for example, or lack of language skills.
The trouble is that it is precisely from these regions that a very large part of the irregular migration on the asylum track comes, against which Austria has no recipe at all. This also explains why the mass immigration of young people does not close the labor gap.
Danes have stopped immigration
The Danes have reacted and largely stopped the influx of potential welfare recipients. In the rest of the EU, they continue to leave the selection of migrants (we're not talking about real asylum here, obviously) to criminal gangs of traffickers and hope to find the solution in unworkable token measures like "distribution."
This is a disaster because it fuels xenophobia and puts undue strain on social systems. Let's be clear: Without migration, this country would largely stand still. But the selection of those moving in must again be targeted if we want to preserve the social system.
There are groups of migrants whose employment rate is well above average, Agenda Austria has found. Germans, Hungarians, Slovenians and Slovaks, for example.
And there are groups that have a far above-average impact on unemployment statistics, if they are registered as job seekers at all. This is particularly true of Syrians, Afghans and Serbs.
And no: this is not racism. It is empirical. And it is consistent with similar studies elsewhere. For example, the Economist conducted a study in 2018 based on data from the Danish Ministry of Finance.
It showed that Danes themselves and many migrant groups in the occupationally relevant age cohorts (20 to 65) make a positive contribution to public finances. In other words, they pay in more than they get out through the social system.
But there is one major exception: The so-called MENAPT group (Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan, Turkey) does not manage this. They remain net recipients for life. There are many reasons for this: lack of qualifications, for example, or lack of language skills.
The trouble is that it is precisely from these regions that a very large part of the irregular migration on the asylum track comes, against which Austria has no recipe at all. This also explains why the mass immigration of young people does not close the labor gap.
Danes have stopped immigration
The Danes have reacted and largely stopped the influx of potential welfare recipients. In the rest of the EU, they continue to leave the selection of migrants (we're not talking about real asylum here, obviously) to criminal gangs of traffickers and hope to find the solution in unworkable token measures like "distribution."
This is a disaster because it fuels xenophobia and puts undue strain on social systems. Let's be clear: Without migration, this country would largely stand still. But the selection of those moving in must again be targeted if we want to preserve the social system.
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