cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/64561299

The number of German firms closing their doors for good rose last year by as much as 16% on the year to 196,100, the Creditreform agency and the ZEW economic research institute reported on Wednesday.

  • HotznplotznEnglish
    1·
    9 days ago

    People are migrating in any country, and sometimes they come back as is the case for Germany.

    Read your own sources:

    What is surprising in our findings is indeed the very high average level of qualifications of the emigrants, but **our analyses show hardly any evidence of a permanent “brain drain” from Germany **[…]

    Addition:

    Germany’s research and innovation assessed – (2024)

    Germany has managed to reverse its long-standing brain drain of the 2000s and early 2010s, and is now attracting more researchers than it is losing. “Germany is therefore on a favourable trajectory,” the report says.

    You’ll find a lot more on this across the web.

    • doodledup@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      9 days ago

      People are migrating in any country, and sometimes they come back as is the case for Germany.

      Again, as I already said, quesionable methods: this study is based on interviews with emigrants. But how do you ask emigrants that have already emigrated and don’t plan to come back? It doesn’t matter anyways. The numbers speak for themselves. It doesn’t matter whether they want to return or not, they are gone now.

      Germany has managed to reverse its long-standing brain drain of the 2000s and early 2010s, and is now attracting more researchers than it is losing. “Germany is therefore on a favourable trajectory,” the report says.

      I did not know we are gaining scientific researchers in particular. This is good. However, this is just researchers. I’m talking about academics in general and emigration of German citizens. High-paying qualified workers. I shared my sources about that from the Statistisches Bundesamt.