The German labour market will need at least 260,000 migrants per year in the medium- to long-term, and many of them will have to come from outside the European Union, a study released Tuesday showed.
The study, conducted on behalf of Bertelsmann Institute, says that the country's working population will contract by about 16 million - or about a third - by 2060 due to the ageing population and low birthrate in Germany.
Its authors say that migration from within the EU is likely to decrease in the next four decades because the standard of living is rising in most member countries and therefore there will be less of incentive to migrate to Germany for work.
Some 146,000 migrants from within the EU and some 114,000 arrivals from outside the bloc would be required to counter the demographic changes in Germany "to a degree that is tolerable for the economy," the study said.
Last year, the German government passed an immigration law that it is hoped will attract skilled workers from outside the EU in an attempt to remedy the chronic shortage.
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