Report: Refugees in Germany are often overqualified

[LondonManc]

And well he should be. There are pieces of orange peel floating down the Rhine with better qualifications than scooterscot.

Immigrant oranges?

[shaunbhoy]

Just seems to me that scooterscot is fearing for his future.

And well he should be. There are pieces of orange peel floating down the Rhine with better qualifications than scooterscot.

[LondonManc]

Just seems to me that scooterscot is fearing for his future.

[SueEllen]

It doesn't say "highly qualified", it says higher qualified than what the job requirements are. So if the qualification required to drive a taxi is "drivers licence" and I also have an O level, then I'm over-qualified for the job...

Don't be silly it doesn't go with their hateful rhetoric...

[meridian]

so not are the refugees mainly men they are all highly qualified men. Hmm anyone smell a rat?

It doesn't say "highly qualified", it says higher qualified than what the job requirements are. So if the qualification required to drive a taxi is "drivers licence" and I also have an O level, then I'm over-qualified for the job...

[Paddy]

I have no doubt that many refugees have fake passports and fake qualifications.


Follow the links to the original report and it is quite a different picture.

http://www.oecd.org/berlin/publikati...ier-092106.pdf

One out of five refugees aged 15-64 in the European Union in 2014 had a tertiary level of
education

The education level of refugees varies greatly by country. Two thirds of refugees in Spain have
higher education, while the respective share is less than 15% in Germany, Italy and Croatia

Less than half (45%) of refugees in the EU reported to have at least an advanced knowledge of the
host-country language

On average, it takes refugees up to 20 years to have a similar employment rate as the nativeborn.

[tomtomagain]

That's lucky. They'll all soon have high paying jobs.

Link 1

Link 2

[vetran]

so not are the refugees mainly men they are all highly qualified men. Hmm anyone smell a rat?

[MrMarkyMark]

Nothing to see then, lots of overqualified resource at bargain basement prices, Merkel was right all along

[DodgyAgent]

Looks like Amazon jobs will need to remain in a non-EU country.



Source: Report: Refugees in Germany are often overqualified - The Local

They are happily passing me their references

[scooterscot]

Looks like Amazon jobs will need to remain in a non-EU country.

Refugees in Germany are often overqualified for their jobs, more so even than those living in other EU countries, according to a new report.
Some 71 percent of refugees in Germany are overqualified for their work, compared to an EU average of 60 percent, according to a working paper released on Wednesday by the European Commission and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

The figures were based on comparing the job requirements for refugees’ occupations to their actual qualifications. But when refugee workers were asked personally whether they felt they were overqualified, 54 percent in Germany said yes, compared to 57 percent EU-wide.

Refugees are also more overqualified than other groups of immigrants in Germany: 38 percent of non-EU born employees work in jobs that are below their level of qualifications, compared to 30 percent EU-wide.

And there’s an even starker contrast when looking at the native German population: 16 percent of locals in Germany are overqualified for their jobs, while the EU average is 21 percent.

The OECD used data from 2014, before Germany saw a huge uptick in asylum seekers in 2015.

While refugees in Germany might be overqualified, the report praised Germany for being on the right track of integrating refugees into the job market.

“The refugee crisis is an opportunity to significantly improve the system for integration,” said OECD job market expert Thomas Liebig.

The report also looked at refugees’ language skills, which it noted are important for integration and the job market. Across Europe, less than half had advanced knowledge of the local language, compared to two-thirds of other immigrant groups.

In Germany, only 9 percent of refugees who had lived in the country for up to ten years had an advanced level of German. But this is hard to compare to countries like Spain where most of the refugees come from Latin America and the percentage there was 98 percent who had advanced Spanish.

Still, over time refugees in Germany do seem to take on the language: about half of all refugees who had lived in Germany longer than ten years had advanced German skills.

The situation for female refugees in Germany can be more difficult: their employment rate is 45 percent on average, which is 17 percentage points below men.

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But at the same time, of refugee women who came to Germany between 1999 and 2014, every fourth woman had some form of post-secondary education, such as university - this was four percentage points higher than men.

Still, about half of these women had low-level education, which was higher than the amount of men with this level.

The report also noted the importance of gaining citizenship for integration. Germany was behind the rest of the EU in this area, making it the “only major exception” among the countries accepting the most refugees.

On average across the EU, 61 percent of people who had arrived as refugees became citizens after ten years. But in Germany, this percentage was 40 percent.

Source: Report: Refugees in Germany are often overqualified - The Local