Interview: How to retain skilled workers from abroad? - DEKRA Academy Stuttgart

› Migration und Integration

When individuals leave the company, it is usually for reasons that employers can do little about. Sometimes these are personal reasons, such as homesickness or the partner who has moved on finds a job in another region, sometimes they move to areas with better earning opportunities, such as from the skilled trades to industry.

In other areas, many international workers return to their home country or move on to other countries. Prof. Dr. Bernhard Boockmann was commissioned by the Federal Employment Agency to survey skilled workers who have left Germany again. “A large proportion of emigration is due to labor market-related reasons, such as the loss of a job or - in the case of international students - the end of their education. There are also family reasons and often economic reasons, such as high rents. A small proportion of emigrants also cited experiences of discrimination as a reason. For most of them, several of the reasons mentioned apply,” he summarizes.

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