Labor market
Study: More young people have no professional qualification
Many companies have problems finding specialists. Often it is already a problem with the training.
More and more young people in Germany have no vocational training. The number of 20 to 34-year-olds without a degree rose by 460,000 to 1.6 million between 2013 and 2024, the Nuremberg Institute for Labor Market and Vocational Research (IAB) has calculated. The “Süddeutsche Zeitung” first reported on the study.
This increased the proportion of the non -qualified workers by three percentage points to 13 percent per year by an average of 2.5 percent.
According to the study, this development is partly due to immigration. About 45 percent of younger refugees from Afghanistan, Eritrea, Iraq, Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia or Syria had no professional completion last year. For the under 35-year-olds from EU countries, the proportion has increased significantly to more than 20 percent since 2013. However, the proportion of German nationals without a degree increased slightly to almost 10 percent over the period.
dpa
Source: Stern
