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Interesting take. The government hasn't put out numbers how many job losses are tied directly to energy prices - but there's hundreds of articles like: https:/
by onlyrealcuzzo 2y ago
Interesting take.
The government hasn't put out numbers how many job losses are tied directly to energy prices - but there's hundreds of articles like: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/24/basf-cut-jobs-energy-crisis-germany-recession https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/24/basf-cut-jo...
Also, immigrants are unemployed at a higher rate than non-immigrants (7% higher for recent immigrants: https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2016/wp1606.pdf https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2016/wp1606.pdf).
I imagine this has little impact on the non-immigrant population - but it is a contributor to why total unemployment is rising (the headline).
- trueismywork 2y agoGermany is in a weird state. On one hand, it really does have vacancies for jobs, On other hand it has onerous beaurcraric red tape which doesn't allow immigrants (extremely capable, not just refugees) to do those jobs mostly due to language but also other things. It seems to have created this dilemna for themselves.
- codr7 2y agoNot difficult to see if you live in the country. Every single immigrant speaks perfect German, most of them refuse to speak English. It's more the opposite in Sweden from my experience. So, good luck with the language project, I guess.
- codr7 2y agoLeaving people with no future causes a lot of trouble for everyone in the long run.
- bryanlarsen 2y agoEnergy, being a commodity, is priced at the marginal rate. In other words, its price is currently based on the cost of LNG fed generators. This would be true whether or not Germany had more nuclear.