Qualified Workforce: Austria’s Target is to Attract Skilled Immigrants

Politics ♦ Published: October 6, 2010; 15:14 ♦ (Vindobona)

ÖAAB General Secretary Lukas Mandl: "Germany has long been an immigration country. Austria also has to become one. Austria’s target should be to attract skilled immigrants, after identifying the needs."

Qualified Workforce: Austria’s Target is to Attract Skilled Immigrants / Picture: © OEAAB

This was requested by Mandl after his visit to Berlin, where he exchanged ideas with the FDP labor market expert Johannes Vogel on the concept of the FDP, he told the magazine "Der Standard".

Mandl suggests that the first thing to do is to determine what kinds of professionals Austria lacks, and where skilled immigrants may be employed in the labor market. "The individual…