Migrants could ease labor shortage in Slovakia's poorly-paid professions

Migrants from the Middle East aren't a threat to better paid and qualified employees on the labor market, but they could rather fill in the gaps in poorly-paid specific professions and services, local media reported Thursday citing a senior analyst.

"We are facing a lack of workers in certain specific professions in Slovakia. They're mostly unskilled professions, ancillary jobs in kitchens or lower paid jobs in services. Therefore, migrants usually don't threaten people from acquiring better paid and qualified jobs," TABLET.TV quoted Sberbank chief analyst Vladimir Vano as saying.

The goal of many migrants is to reach Germany. More than one million migrants could end up in Germany by the end of this year, according to reports, which will create a huge burden for Germany.

"It'll be a burden for public finances in the extent of 0.2-0.3 percent of gross national product. This money won't get lost, however. Support of domestic demand may contribute to the entire economy," the analyst said.

"It'll be important to know whether we'll succeed in integrating migrants into the domestic economy, like in the USA, or whether it'll create closed subcultural groups like in France," Vano said. Endit