Germany's immigration revolution

Studies about immigration into Germany explain a lot of things about its impacts on German economy. However, there is an important point about immigration which is education  level of the immigrants. Numbers of the non native people can be a big causation to economy but ignorance in immigrants has more effect on economy then its numbers. Economy is an very important element of a country and there are a lot of influences on Economy. Immigration is a very important effect on German economy. For example, 3 million people immigrated in 40 years from Turkey to Germany and these people helped the Germany’s economic miracle but after 1990, immigrants started to became problem to Germans as indicated before in this article. Researchers talking about numbers of immigration and its influence on economy in Germany, but they are missing one important point; education level of people who are immigrants. Number of the immigrants may affect the economy but main affection caused by quality of the immigrants. Education level of the immigrants effect the economy.   Main affection of the immigration on economy is education level of the people who immigrated to Germany. Turkish immigrants were the big portion of the immigrants and their education level help to understand main effect of the economy in positive way and negative way.  People who are educated usually look for office jobs and leadership positions. If a person doesn’t have a college education, companies can use that person in every difficult works and pay cheaper labor wages because that person doesn’t have a lot of option in work places. Labor force which came into Germany in 1950s and 1960s hadn’t good education level and it was easy to use them where ever the Germans want in cheaper wages.  If a person working too much with less money, economic miracle occurs in every country like in Germany.  For example; Turkish immigrants who came into Germany in 1950s and 1960s were uneducated people. According to statistics Turkish proportion of the literacy was quarter of the population in 1950s. This result only for people who can write and read, and the people who had their college education was less than people who can write and read.  On the other hand, German signed agreements with countries which are Greece, Turkey, Portugal, and Yugoslavia. Why Germany didn’t go Britain or America to sign immigration agreements? They went only poor countries and they found people who had uneducated people and used in their work places. This is very obvious that low education level of the immigrants causes economic boom in Germany.     =================================================================== ===================================================================== =================================================================== Germany's immigration revolution Germany will rely on foreigners to fill skills shortages By Rob Broomby in Berlin At the moment, Infopark - a youthful German internet firm employing 130 people - is turning away highly qualified job applicants. But that could soon change. In a decade or so Germany will start to experience severe skilled labour shortages. "It's a good idea to bring special people to us and highly qualified people. I think we will need this. Already at the moment we have here some people which are not originally from Germany - 10% or so - this percentage will become higher," says Bjorn Kunze, the firm's human resources manager. With a declining birth rate and an ageing population Germany has been forced into a radical re-think. Recommendations A nation which has never seen itself as an immigration country has been forced to admit that immigration may not only be good for the nation, it may even be necessary. "An ageing and shrinking population needs goods and services and somebody has to produce the goods and has to provide the services," says Professor Rainer Muenz of the Immigration Commission, who published a recommendations on the future of immigration in Germany. Rita Suessmuth presents the report to Interior Minister Otto Schilly "We need immigrants, and not only as an exceptional deviation from normality but as the new normality." "This means Germany should come to terms with its demographic future and this would be to recruit attractive immigrants for permanent settlement," he says. The commission's report recommends targeted economic migration. Would-be settlers would qualify using a points system with bonuses for their skills qualifications and their language ability. But numbers will be modest to start with - just 40,000 to 50,000 people per year. The chair of the commission, Professor Rita Suessmuth, says she wants a flexible system. "Every year we are looking (at) how many have come and which are the needs. What we know already, starting with the year 2010 we need much more and when I said we recommend 50,000 we didn't count the family. Usually we count at least three persons per average," she says. Pros and cons The demographic time-bomb means Germany's lavish welfare state and high pensions could soon be unsustainable. For the first time since 40 years migration is being discussed in a positive manner Safter Cinar It is surprising nonetheless that no one is suggesting cutting back social protection. Instead immigration is now seen as the answer. But for Dr Achim Dercks of the association of German Chambers of Commerce, immigration has to be carefully targeted. "If there is a problem with the labour market that we cannot find people that the companies need then that is a negative fact on the gross national product," he says. A new wave of immigration could also change things for Germany's large Turkish community. The unions and the entrepreneurs, they all claim that we need immigration so I think the Christian Democratic Party has to be careful that they don't isolate themselves Marie-Louise Beck Government Commissioner for Minority Rights Forty years since the first guest workers arrived and many of the country's Turks still endure second class status. "For the first time since 40 years migration is being discussed in a positive manner. This will help also the people who are now living here because I think they will have some measures who will help to integrate the people to give them maybe a more equal rights," says Safter Cinar, vice-president of Germany's Turkish community. Changing Germans The government will publish its own proposals in September and legislation will follow soon after. The German Government's main objective has been to keep immigration out of the next election. Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats have yet to support the proposals Marie-Louise Beck, the government's Commissioner for Minority Rights, says the opposition, right-wing Christian Democrats (CDU) will have to tread a careful line. "The situation really has changed. The unions and the entrepreneurs, they all claim that we need immigration so I think the Christian Democratic Party has to be careful that they don't isolate themselves." Germany has never seen itself as a multi-cultural society and talk of integration has at times taken on an intolerant tone. Then the message was that foreigners had to behave like Germans. But Germans themselves are now embarking on a journey which could change their society forever.