Germany has experienced an increasing demand for skilled employees in fields like engineering, healthcare, and hospitality in recent years. While Germany saw an outflux of around 670,000 skilled workers going abroad in 2010, there was an influx of nearly 340,000 skilled foreign workers in 2012, helping Germany meet its growing workforce needs. The migration balance shifted from a surplus of around 128,000 workers leaving Germany in 2010 to a deficit of over 279,000 workers entering in 2011, demonstrating Germany's increasing reliance on recruiting skilled talent from abroad.

1. Intra-EU Mobility
Paradigm change: Increasing demand for skilled employees calls for
recruiting skilled employees abroad
Migration balance (in
thousands)
Germany – Abroad (in total)
Engineers &
technical
specialists
Influx
Outflux
2010
798.3
670.6
127.7*
2011
958.2
678.9
279.3
2012
Balance
340,0**
Physicians &
nurses
Other
needs
Hotel and
catering
trade
employees
* only comparable with previous years on a
restricted basis on account of the statistical
effects
** provisional projected values