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I am from Portugal, a country that has many people working in richer EU countries, but I don't think this is true. Romanian or Portuguese nurses and doctors wo
by pcardoso 7y ago
I am from Portugal, a country that has many people working in richer EU countries, but I don't think this is true.
Romanian or Portuguese nurses and doctors working in France or Germany or any other country will have the same wages as a french nurse or doctor. Or most of the time at least.
My wife is a nurse and we did some research on this a few years ago.
- nraynaud 7y agoand there is the converse too, where people go to eastern countries to get surgeries.
- atlasunshrugged 7y agoI don't know specifically wages but often there are re-certifications needed even within the EU (currently a friend's wife who is an M.D. is trying to switch from Estonia to the UK and has to jump through several administrative hoops and get certifications in English and a few other things)
- therealdrag0 7y agoThere is still the possibility of increased worker availability reducing wages, you have less bargaining power if theres readily someone else to take your place.
- pradn 7y agoMedical workers coming in from other countries can suppress wages, but enough to cause a significant price difference in cost of health care? We also don't know the dynamic effects of a labor shortage. Maybe Germans would switch jobs into the medical field and the wages won't rise that much?
- gingabriska 7y agoGerman companies are bitching forever now that there are no workers available for them. I read that in news every other week.
- gingabriska 7y agoI am not saying they are accept lower wages then their German or French counterparts, what I am claiming is that because they are available in the market, their availability puts downward pressure on the wages and that's why German or French doctor/nurses can't charge more than what they'd pay to a worker from any other country.