Meeting future demand for skilled workers

To fill the shortage of skilled workers that is forecast for the next ten years due to demographic changes, the training of people without a formal qualification is gaining in significance. As the article will show, the proportion of economically active persons with migrant backgrounds living in Germany is especially high in this group. The article discusses to what extent this potential can be harnessed to meet qualification-specific demand for skilled workers and on what scale the potential economically active population in Germany can be enlarged by means of immigration. Attention is drawn to the importance of coordinated policy measures.