Why not? There are reasons besides economic status for migration
No idea about the UK. But the definition of “having received vocational or academic training” is true for almost everyone in Germany. About 75% of all people in Germany above 15 years have a vocational degree.
And Germans can freely move and work in the EEA, which is a good part of the member states of the OECD.
LOL wtf
Taxes and career options.
I immigrated to the US and have way more options here on the job market as you’re not as “locked in” to any given career path as you often are in Germany
Money obviously. In the case of Germany and UK it is socialist policies that take away 60% of their income through all sorts of taxes. German Government for example had record high tax revenue and yet they are still in a recession
We be very bright.
OECD Nations are the EU + Switzerland and Norway, and North America, and a bunch of others. So a German living in Austria or Switzerland would count, or Brits in North America. It should not be surprising that the UK and Germany are on this list.
The Nordic nations attract(ed) medical personal in the past espacially those trained in the UK and Germany…
People migrate for many reasons, including weather. GB has quite nasty weather, that not everyone is able to learn to enjoy and appreciate.
And after Brexit, things doesn’t go quite that well. Germany’s legendary wealth is singing songs with Unicorns.
Also, there are structural migrants. You migrate, when you’re qualified in an occupation, for which demand is limited in your country. Imagine living in Switzerland and dreaming about being high sea captain.
Why not? You will meet quite a bit Germans living outside Germany
I know several software developers that moved to Switzerland or USA. They are paying much more than German companies.
Two of my professors in US were Germans.
A lot of Germans in South Africa
OP doesn’t understand what migrant means
Interestingly, Indonesia is the fourth largest country in the world, but it does not feature on this list, while the Philippines, whose GDP per capita is much lower that Indonesia and whose PISA rank is also lower, rank number three on this list. Indonesians don’t really emigrate like the Chinese or Indians; only the Netherlands have a large number of Indonesians, but most of them are half Eurasians who had to leave the country post-independence.
Maybe OP thinks migrants are bad and people from the UK and Germany shouldn’t be associated with such?
Germany is making it hard for people to create wealth through work. Plenty of educated Germans thus leave it to have better conditions in other countries.
The Chinese have bucked the trend and have started putting to use what they learn back again in China. I used to have peers at my university who used to tell me it’s actually lucrative going back to China to work for a Chinese company and the govt facilitates it.
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Why not? There are reasons besides economic status for migration
No idea about the UK. But the definition of “having received vocational or academic training” is true for almost everyone in Germany. About 75% of all people in Germany above 15 years have a vocational degree.
And Germans can freely move and work in the EEA, which is a good part of the member states of the OECD.
LOL wtf
Taxes and career options.
I immigrated to the US and have way more options here on the job market as you’re not as “locked in” to any given career path as you often are in Germany
Money obviously. In the case of Germany and UK it is socialist policies that take away 60% of their income through all sorts of taxes. German Government for example had record high tax revenue and yet they are still in a recession
We be very bright.
OECD Nations are the EU + Switzerland and Norway, and North America, and a bunch of others. So a German living in Austria or Switzerland would count, or Brits in North America. It should not be surprising that the UK and Germany are on this list.
The Nordic nations attract(ed) medical personal in the past espacially those trained in the UK and Germany…
People migrate for many reasons, including weather. GB has quite nasty weather, that not everyone is able to learn to enjoy and appreciate.
And after Brexit, things doesn’t go quite that well. Germany’s legendary wealth is singing songs with Unicorns.
Also, there are structural migrants. You migrate, when you’re qualified in an occupation, for which demand is limited in your country. Imagine living in Switzerland and dreaming about being high sea captain.
Why not? You will meet quite a bit Germans living outside Germany
I know several software developers that moved to Switzerland or USA. They are paying much more than German companies.
Two of my professors in US were Germans.
A lot of Germans in South Africa
OP doesn’t understand what migrant means
Interestingly, Indonesia is the fourth largest country in the world, but it does not feature on this list, while the Philippines, whose GDP per capita is much lower that Indonesia and whose PISA rank is also lower, rank number three on this list. Indonesians don’t really emigrate like the Chinese or Indians; only the Netherlands have a large number of Indonesians, but most of them are half Eurasians who had to leave the country post-independence.
Maybe OP thinks migrants are bad and people from the UK and Germany shouldn’t be associated with such?
Germany is making it hard for people to create wealth through work. Plenty of educated Germans thus leave it to have better conditions in other countries.
The Chinese have bucked the trend and have started putting to use what they learn back again in China. I used to have peers at my university who used to tell me it’s actually lucrative going back to China to work for a Chinese company and the govt facilitates it.