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Gary Britt wrote:
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> Phil Payne wrote:
>> "Gary Britt" 
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>> news:4662f0aa{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> I was just reading an article yesterday ...
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>> URI?
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> What you mean you weren't aware of the 17% Unemployment rate and brain
> drain in Germany??  Could this possibly be happening without coming
> across your total world view world news portal and cognitive abilities??
>

A) Germany now includes Eastern Germany & it is taking a Generational
change in most former Warsaw Pact/Communist Countries to deal with the
persistent levels of unemployment. It's a falll out from Communism.

The fact that you appear to have know knowledge of this actually shows how
well Germany is doing dealing with absorbing a former Communist country the
size of the DDR.

B) Gee Brian drain....

(i) Mostly to Switzerland & Austria.... (ii) Check the numbers. 40K to
the top 3 in a year.... Not huge out a population of 100 million. &
most are just "popping round next door" for a while.

Compared to the population drain which has occurred in places like Poland
etc & have then come to the UK, Sweden & Ireland, that's bugger
all.

One could see it as simply the EU finally starting to become a single
market with labour mobility finally starting to catch up with capital
mobility.

Adam




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> http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2600489.ece
>
> * German brain drain at highest level since 1940s *
> By Tony Paterson in Berlin
> Published: 01 June 2007
>
> For a nation that invented the term "guest worker" for its immigrant
> labourers, Germany is facing the sobering fact that record numbers of
> its own often highly-qualified citizens are fleeing the country to work
> abroad in the biggest mass exodus for 60 years.
>
> Figures released by Germany's Federal Statistics Office showed that the
> number of Germans emigrating rose to 155,290 last year - the highest
> number since the country's reunification in 1990 - which equalled levels
> last experienced in the 1940s during the chaotic aftermath of the Second
> World War.
>
> The statistics, which also revealed that the number of immigrants had
> declined steadily since 2001, were a stark reminder of the extent of the
> German economy's decline from the heady 1960s when thousands of mainly
> Turkish workers flocked to find work in the country.
>
> Leading economists and employers say the trend is alarming. They note
> that many among Germany's new breed of home-grown "guest workers" are
> highly-educated management consultants, doctors, dentists, scientists
> and lawyers.
>
> OECD figures show that Germany is near the top of a league of industrial
> nations experiencing a brain drain which for the first time since the
> 1950s now exceeds the number of immigrants.
>
> Stephanie Wahl, of the Institute for Economics, based in Bonn, said that
> those who are leaving Germany are mostly highly motivated and well
> educated. "Those coming in are mostly poor, untrained and hardly
> educated," she added.
>
> Fed up with comparatively poor job prospects at home - where
> unemployment is as high as 17 per cent in some regions - as well as high
> taxes and bureaucracy, thousands of Germans have upped sticks for
> Austria and Switzerland, or emigrated to the United States.
>
> Yesterday, the country'swoes were underscored by a report which
> disclosed that areas of unemployment-wracked eastern Germany were
> populated by a "male-dominated underclass susceptible to far right
> ideology" because of a dramatic 25 per cent exodus of young women aged
> 18 to 29.
>
> More than 18,000 Germans moved to Switzerland last year. The US was the
> second most popular destination with 13,245, followed by Austria with
> 9,309.
>
> Switzerland already has a resident German population of 170,000. Its
> presence has even provoked a xenophobic backlash in the country's
> tabloid press. Earlier this year, the Swiss newspaper Blick ran an
> anti-German campaign which spoke of a "German invasion" and quoted
> readers who claimed they found the German immigrants to be "arrogant and
> rude". Many immigrants, however, say the benefits of lower taxes and pay
> up to three times higher than at home far outweigh the occasional
> xenophobic outburst.
>
> Claus Boche, a 32-year-old executive, left the west German city of
> Paderborn two-and-a-half years agoto take up a job with a Swiss
> management consulting firm. He now lives in Zurich. "Nearly everything
> is less bureaucratic and more go ahead than in Germany," he said. "I
> also pay about 40 per cent less tax. I have no plans to go back."
>
> The current exodus hardly fits in with the official view of the German
> economy, which is said to be "booming". Although jobless
figures for May
> were reported to be marginally up yesterday, Chancellor Angela Merkel's
> grand coalition government of conservatives and Social Democrats has
> taken credit for a steady 13-month decline in the country's unemployment
> to below four million.
>
> However, the gradual economic upturn has so far failed to halt an exodus
> of the country's well-trained. Thomas Bauer, a labour economist from
> Essen, was scathing about Germany's employment conditions. "Germany is
> certainly not attractive when compared to other countries in Europe," he
> said. "The taxes are too high, the wages are too low and feelings of
> jealousy towards high-income earners is widespread. This is a special
> deterrent to the highly qualified."

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