It has left German industry, the services sector and the government scrambling for solutions out of concern that whatever new arrivals come after May 1 will not be enough to plug the labor gap.
Learning Tools: This is the first article in a series that will follow three students at Austin Polytechnical Academy, a school that trains students to fill the labor gap in high-tech manufacturing.
GM says it needs to close a $25-per-hour 25-per-hour 25-per-hournese, much of it for benefits to UAW retirees and their familabor
In developing countries, the costs of the unpaid labor gap are devastating.
The effects of the unpaid labor gap are less harsh in our own country, but still worthy of our attention.
What started for many as a short-term solution to fill a labor gap turned into a preference for hiring undocumented workers.
Rita Gunther McGrath, a management professor at the Columbia Business School, told VICE News that a manufacturing labor gap has occurred because as jobs moved overseas in recent decades, a skilled domestic workforce shrunk.
The German Industrial Union of Metalworkers, or IG Metall, wants to introduce an "integration year" for refugees, to prepare them for the German labor market while filling the country's labor gap.
IG Metall, which represents workers in manufacturing, industrial production and steelmaking, is one of the organizations that believes Germany should harness the arriving manpower to fill the labor gap.
Education Matters What's behind these labor market gaps?
