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German here. There is no labor shortage, just a shortage of decent job offerings because lo behold employers are stingy.
I mean yes, that too, but there actually is a labor shortage as well. We have 2.7M unemployed people and 700k open positions (source).
However, we need to account for
a) unemployed people that are not able to work due to illness etc b) those 700k open positions are only the ones that are reported to our labor agency (Arbeitsagentur).
If you account for that, we probably have closer to 2M open positions.
Imho 2M open positions makes more sense as there about 100k open positions in child care (Kita) alone.
Not sure how it works there, but I believe in the US, the Bureau of Labor Statistics doesn't count people unable to work in their "unemployed persons" numbers.
Like...a 3 month old infant isn't considered "unemployed" for statistical purposes, for example.
you're probably right. I might have gotten misled because there's an ongoing debate about unemployed refugees here and it's mostly because we're terrible bat getting them permits to work.