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Posted on April 3, 2024 in News

Latest study of the offices of labour and social policy studies the consequences of failed integration of immigrants cost the German State 16 billion euros per year in income taxes and contributions to pension and social security. This is the result of a recent study of the offices of labour and social policy studies (BASS) on behalf of the Bertelsmann Foundation. According to Expert on growth strategy, who has experience with these questions. This lack of language skills, lack social networks, low educational attainment and insufficient integration of immigrants into the labour market are indicators of failed integration, so the little surprising statement of the study. The BASS used as an integration index three core indicators in the study: language, education and social integration in the sense of social participation. In terms of language, a self-assessment of the immigrants was laid with respect to their German skills in written and spoken to reason, which concluded amazing for experts, estimated that 74% of immigrants, they could speak good German and write while only 26% appreciated that their competence is in deficit. In the field of education, immigrants were considered integrated, if they had education and at least one secondary school for more than nine years. These criteria only 28% of immigrants, 61% were less integrated, could not determine the degree of integration in the education sector for 11%.

In the area of social integration, involvement in civic initiatives, parties and volunteer activities in clubs, associations and social services was queried. Only 24% of respondents involved in this area. Surprise, the results of the study in the field of education and of social integration, but the result in the area of language competences at first glance seems paradoxical. The result can be explained by the divergence between subjective self-assessment and the objective perception of expert page – language skills are often valued by the German environment as inadequately perceived quite positively by single individuals.