Why Immigration Isn't Saving Europe's Economy

Into Europe: Europe needs immigration for its economy - yet immigration isn't saving Europe.

00:00 Introduction
01:25 Why Europe Wants Immigrants
03:23 Classifying Immigration
04:44 Do Immigrants help tackle labour shortages?
07:11 Do Immigrants help tackle decreasing prosperity?
08:42 Do Immigrants help save the Welfare state?
14:15 How Immigration affects native workers?
15:18 How else does Immigration affect the economy?
16:30 Can we fix Europe's migration policy?
18:21 Can Europe copy Japan's immigration policy?
21:16 Special Message

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[abrakadaver]

The reason why I prefer this Europe YouTube channel to all others is that you don't embellish anything and also address sore topics. Too often I have the feeling that pro-Europe Youtubers simply glorify everything that has to do with the EU. I am also pro-European but you can be critical sometimes. Please keep it up

[vkdrk]

European governments need to stop saying how many people we ''need to bring in'' to keep the economy going and start coming up with plans on how to make it easier for young Europeans to have families.

[matters]

Quality matters. Singapore only take skilled/educated and wealthy immigrants permanently, the low-skilled are only temporary for short term needs. Sweden don't even require language proficiency to naturalize

[mario]

Recently a case was popularized in Austria where an unemployed migrant family with 6 kids received more in welfare and child support than two top 15% salaries combined (around 6600€ net).

It takes a whole lot of tax payers to fund this single family, and if above average salaries cannot provide the same net income as not working at all, there is absolutely no incentive to work.

This is not even the immagrants fault. Why would they work if they can receive more money by staying at home.

[nenasiek]

Imagine if countries actually listened to what millenials have been saying for over a decade.
We have less money to live on and have a hard time finding a place to live (including renting) and the prices are insane.
Why would we have kids when we have to change jobs to get a proper raise over the inflation rate and cant find a place to live, meaning we might have to move but we cant.

[desanipt]

This video is gold. We need more thorough evidence-based takes on the problem and less sensationalist/emotional views on it. Thank you for putting on the job of researching all this!

[BMS]

In Denmark the total number of immigrants from the middle east takes net negative of about 30 billion dkk each year from our welfare state, while the rest of the country produces net positive surplus of about 120 billion dkk each year. Quite incredible just how much they actually take from the welfare state, now good thing here in Demnark is that we have limited our immigration levels, so it doesn't get worse.

[mujexzilla]

"Demography is destiny", meaning the composition of a country's population will determine its future.

[igeljaeger]

I lived in Mannheim for a long time and yes, it has a high population of Turkish-descendants and also an unusually high AfD-turnout as well, for the region. Turks are workers there and they aren't really keen to be replaced by others, plus they aren't exactly huge fans of arabs. Yes most of them also vote for Erdogan, obviously.

[htchery]

I still don’t understand how there can be a labor shortage with ~7 % unemployment rate in Europe. Something else is off-balance.

[spkrlre]

Maybe we should try to tackle the reasons why people choose not to have children. Harder problem but we won't be able to avoid it sooner or later

[akaBunta]

It costs a lot of money to train an engineer or a doctor in the EU. When highly skilled workers come—often with prior experience—their skills are immediately put to use, contributing directly to the economy. The loss, however, is for their home country, which invested in their education but doesn't benefit from their expertise.
The notion that there's no need for high-skilled jobs is simply wrong. The fact that you receive a work visa means you already have a contract with an employer before you even set foot in the EU. It’s also well known that the EU is in desperate need of doctors (unless you consider doctors not to be high-skilled professionals).

As for low-skilled workers, they are also incredibly useful; they are the backbone of the economy, and the EU needs them as well.
I’ve changed my internet provider four times, and each time it was an immigrant who handled the installation. The same goes for plumbers. Have you ever used Uber Eats? Many of the delivery workers are immigrants too.

When it comes to refugees, the solution is even simpler: stop bombing their countries just to fuel military economies.

[LL-ifpg]

"Europeans actually have a say in the demographics and economic future of their continent through their votes"
This is clearly not the case in my country, France: Despite polls showing citizens overwhelmingly support lowering immigration, we only have one political party promising to do anything about it, and all other parties form an alliance against them (along with all the media)

[ahmedchannani]

I am from morocco and i still live in morocco 🇲🇦 and i feel for the Europeans but i think a long term solution is to fix the birth rates problem rather than seeking immigration.

[belstar]

people are not really addressing the elephant in the room the global birth-rates are dropping in almost every country so this wont actually fix the problem it will just delay the inevitable and then there are the many other issues too .

[ricardodevasconcelos]

What this video tells me is that it does not really matter if immigrants come in or not, decline is on its way anyway. Destroying social cohesion is not worth it.

[seg]

Immigration policy failure! I am I migrant from Asia myself. I see it. I brought my position to DE. No housing for hard working people like me, nobody cares, many people look down upon all inmigrants. Huge tension between locals and foreigners. Of course The amount of refugee is too big! Help can be done in a sustainable way! Not like this. Now I moving out, I cannot achieve what I wanted for myself and the society in Europe. I took 0 cent from Europe. I only contributed what I could to Europe because I was grateful for when i studied here. But I only get 1 life. Hope Europe figures it out! The current situation is a pity.

[wenterinfaer]

'Europe needs immigration for its economy' they said. Yet people's quality of life is only deteriorating. Strange tidings.

[cssain-wg]

Spain's case deserves a separate study, because contrary to the rest of the EU, Spain receives a huge immigration flow from Latin America, receiving people that are already native in Spanish, mostly well educated (there are studies which show that on average, immigrants from Latin America have superior qualifications than Spaniards themselves) and culturally very similar, which makes integration easy and smooth. This type of immigration is clearly a big plus for the country.

[mogznwaz]

Immigration is not just an economic issue. It’s about culture, identity, human nature and sheer numbers.