>__The typical immigrant to Switzerland is young, well-educated and from a neighbouring country, according to a new study.__
>A research team from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) and the University of Geneva wanted to draw a comprehensive portrait of international migration from 1966 to the present day with this study.
>The researchers analysed data sets containing millions of entries from censuses, population registers and Switzerland’s central migration information system. The study was published in the journal International Migration.
>The public perception of immigrants is characterised by the image of the 1990s, when numerous, predominantly Muslim asylum seekers came to Switzerland from the Balkans – with the intention of staying permanently.
>This image no longer corresponds to reality today. “Most immigrants come here to do an apprenticeship or take advantage of a career opportunity, but half leave the country after five to ten years, often with a young family,” explains Mathias Lerch from EPFL, lead author of the study.
>__Recruitment potential__
>The study shows that around 60% of people with a B or C permit have a university degree. The remaining 40% have an intermediate or lower level of education and work primarily in the service sector – for example in the healthcare, catering or construction sectors.
>“If Switzerland wants to ensure steady economic growth in the future, it needs to tap into new recruitment potential,” said Lerch. For example, the number of people graduating from university in Switzerland is not enough to fully cover the shortage of skilled labour.
>At the same time, the demand for labour in the service sector is growing.
Most immigrants are German, French or Italian or from other European countries fleeing the outdated immigrants pouring into their own countries
I’m an immigrant with a C permit and a university degree.
I would feel entirely more useful if I didn’t have a university degree and instead had a ‘lower level’ qualification in a labour field.
The only thing my degree has done for me is get me rejected for being overqualified or not having enough experience in the field.
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>__The typical immigrant to Switzerland is young, well-educated and from a neighbouring country, according to a new study.__
>A research team from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) and the University of Geneva wanted to draw a comprehensive portrait of international migration from 1966 to the present day with this study.
>The researchers analysed data sets containing millions of entries from censuses, population registers and Switzerland’s central migration information system. The study was published in the journal International Migration.
>The public perception of immigrants is characterised by the image of the 1990s, when numerous, predominantly Muslim asylum seekers came to Switzerland from the Balkans – with the intention of staying permanently.
>This image no longer corresponds to reality today. “Most immigrants come here to do an apprenticeship or take advantage of a career opportunity, but half leave the country after five to ten years, often with a young family,” explains Mathias Lerch from EPFL, lead author of the study.
>__Recruitment potential__
>The study shows that around 60% of people with a B or C permit have a university degree. The remaining 40% have an intermediate or lower level of education and work primarily in the service sector – for example in the healthcare, catering or construction sectors.
>“If Switzerland wants to ensure steady economic growth in the future, it needs to tap into new recruitment potential,” said Lerch. For example, the number of people graduating from university in Switzerland is not enough to fully cover the shortage of skilled labour.
>At the same time, the demand for labour in the service sector is growing.
Most immigrants are German, French or Italian or from other European countries fleeing the outdated immigrants pouring into their own countries
I’m an immigrant with a C permit and a university degree.
I would feel entirely more useful if I didn’t have a university degree and instead had a ‘lower level’ qualification in a labour field.
The only thing my degree has done for me is get me rejected for being overqualified or not having enough experience in the field.
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