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"The pandemic has highlighted the value of social care workers and the challenging nature of their work. Moreover, there is a significant recruitment challenge within the sector that cannot be solved from the UK labour market."

fenews.co.uk/fevoices/55767…
“The [Taiwan] interior ministry has proposed changes to rules on the use of migrant workers in the construction industry. The proposed rule change is intended to fill a labor shortage and keep building costs under control.”

en.rti.org.tw/news/view/id/2…
“[West Australia’s] Agriculture Minister is calling on the Federal Government to introduce an undocumented worker amnesty system to address the looming national agricultural labour shortage.”

abc.net.au/news/2020-10-0…
"Even with all that covid has thrown at us, unemployed New Zealanders will go nowhere near to alleviating the skills shortage we face"

The real migrant crisis: not enough migrants.

rnz.co.nz/programmes/the…
"SARAWAK [Malaysia] is suffering from a severe shortage of foreign labour.... leading to delays in many state-funded projects,... some contractors have reported a manpower shortfall of 70%."

The real migration crisis is spreading.

themalaysianinsight.com/s/278031
"28,000 jobs in food processing remain vacant in Canada right now. That is about 10% of all positions available in the entire sector. Indeed, the labour shortage in the sector is worse than it was before the pandemic"

realagriculture.com/2020/10/ag-pro…
"More than 400 foreign deep-sea fishermen head to New Zealand due to labour shortage"

newshub.co.nz/home/rural/202…
"Between 80-90% of all the labour in the [UK] valeting industry is from the EU... Many have already returned home ....The appetite for UK nationals to take on a valeting job ... is non-existent"

am-online.com/news/people-ne…
"Sydney restaurants are facing a critical staff shortage despite the high unemployment rate.... 'We depend really heavily on our foreign workforce … with planes grounded we're seriously struggling'"

goodfood.com.au/eat-out/news/w…
UK "Christmas dinner could be ruined this year as supplies of traditional turkeys could run out...
The problem is a shortage of skilled workers to process the meat... 1,000 EU workers needed...."

bbc.com/news/business-…
"Sarawak [Malaysia] is short of more than 5,000 workers in the construction sectors due to the state’s Covid-19 travel restrictions on foreigners"

theborneopost.com/2020/10/23/cm-…
"Malaysia, the world’s second largest palm oil producer, relies on workers from countries such as Indonesia and Bangladesh. They account for 84% of its plantation workforce. When the pandemic struck ... thousands of foreign workers left..."

freemalaysiatoday.com/category/natio…
"It's no secret that [US] trainers and farms have had difficulty in recent years accessing H-2A and H-2B visa workers to fill seasonal needs for grooms, hotwalkers, exercise riders, and farm workers"

paulickreport.com/news/the-biz/l…
"Farms demand migrant labour scheme as UK workers 'leave contracts early'"

Who could have ever predicted?

The real migrant crisis: not enough migrants.

sports.yahoo.com/uk-farms-nfu-m…
"The Japan Platform for Migrant Workers toward Responsible and Inclusive Society, will seek to make Japan a more attractive choice for foreigners amid the country's acute labor shortage...."

english.kyodonews.net/news/2020/10/c…
"A labour shortage, particularly in manpower-intensive industries such as agribusiness and food processing, is likely to intensify over the long term in Thailand as the COVID-19 pandemic makes it difficult for foreign labourers to move across borders."

en.vietnamplus.vn/thailand-faces…
This is what happens as countries start to understand the real migrant crisis.
"Russians on social networks advise deputies to work instead of [missing] migrants"

thetimeshub.in/russians-on-so…
The real migrant crisis
"two-thirds of EU nationals working in Britain would have been denied entry under the new [UK immigration] system, including a staggering 80% of social care workers."

workpermit.com/news/new-uk-im…
"there is a risk the foreign workers ... would go home, and there would be no replacements... This could result in possibly 20%-30% shortage of labour requirements for plantations in Malaysia"

thestar.com.my/business/busin…
(Response: "Malaysia's plantation industry can start to employ undocumented migrant workers already in the country once the government moves to legalise their status from 16 November..."

argusmedia.com/en/news/215914…)
"the current labour shortage in Thailand caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has compelled the government to allow the migrant workers in question to remain provided they renew their work permits as soon as the old ones expire."

khmertimeskh.com/50781775/migra…
"Australia is being accused of pinching New Zealand workers...
Kiwis are being promised $2000 if they relocated to Australia to take up short-term agricultural work, in a campaign to fill worker gaps over the ditch."

newshub.co.nz/home/rural/202…
The real migrant crisis: not *nearly* enough migrants...
“Pick the sun on your back and the dirt under your nails. Pick putting money in your pocket. Pick rising to a challenge... Pick being part of something bigger. Pick for Britain.”

Simply *amazing* this campaign to replace migrant labor didn't work.

aljazeera.com/features/2020/…
“Some of the bigger processors couldn’t take as many [birds] because they were concerned they couldn’t get the labour .. I’m sure there will be turkey about but it will be imports of frozen turkey from Poland.”

thegrocer.co.uk/sourcing/chris…
"In one of the first recruitment challenges for a post-Brexit Britain, daffodil farmers will need pickers to harvest their flowers in the spring despite no longer being able to recruit freely from the European Union from January 1...."

thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/p…
“[UK] National insurance number... registrations to EU nationals decreased by 99% between July and September 2020 compared with the same period in 2019... registrations to non-EU nationals decreased by 65% during the same period”.

sports.yahoo.com/uk-eu-brexit-m…
The real migrant crisis: not enough migrants
“Dramatic fall in inflow of migrant workers could trigger skills shortage as [UK] economy recovers”

onrec.com/news/news-arch…
“Border exemptions for migrant workers criticised as 'too late' to stem [New Zealand] horticulture labour shortage”

newshub.co.nz/home/rural/202…
"Attempts to encourage Australians who lost their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic to take up farm work appear to be failing..."

[who would have guessed?]

abc.net.au/news/2020-12-0…
“shortage of workers was one of the reasons for the delay in construction of Samrang-Jomotshangkha highway in [Bhutan]... ‘We have limited domestic workers... Moreover, there is a lack of interest and experience to compete with foreign workers...’”

kuenselonline.com/in-the-wake-of…
"East Thailand manufacturers urge government to give migrants citizenship to relieve labor shortage"

pattayamail.com/business/east-…
"The shortage of labour on the Northern Territory's mango orchards has given some Congolese refugees their first job opportunity."

abc.net.au/news/rural/202…
"The major limit to treatment capacity it is the number of appropriately skilled nurses...
UK’s domestic supply of nurses per head of population is well below the OECD average .... the NHS relies on nurses from abroad to make up the difference."

theconversation.com/covid-has-expo…
“New UK logistics staff shortage looms as 79,000 EU workers go home”

google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t…
“Nikos Argirakis' estate in Greece's main olive growing region usually has dozens of foreign workers toiling around his 1,000 olive trees.
This year, the 40-year-old had to ask his sister and elderly mother to lend a hand because of labour shortages”

france24.com/en/live-news/2…
"What resulted [from shortage of J-1 visa workers] was a severe labor shortage that costed businesses in Ocean City an estimated $24 million, according to the Chamber of Commerce."

google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t…
Bhutan: 'There are 45 Bhutanese workers in his [citrus packing depot]... “We usually deploy 30 Indian workers and they could pack two truckloads daily but this time the workers could hardly ready one truckload”... [local workers] left the work...'

kuenselonline.com/labour-shortag…
Thailand: "a labour shortage in farm and agricultural industry is highly likely in the wake of state lockdown measures ... where fisheries and the processed food industry rely heavily on foreign workers"

The real migrant crisis: not enough migrants.

bangkokpost.com/business/20461…
Australia: "Migrants make up 80 per cent of the harvest workforce, but these numbers have plummeted ever since Australia snapped shut its international borders in March to contain the coronavirus outbreak."

sbs.com.au/language/engli…
"Japan will face a labour force shortage of 6.44 million people by 2030... the movement of skilled workers from India will help Japan in meeting the estimated labour shortages and also boost India’s remittance economy..."

swarajyamag.com/insta/big-fore…
Australia: "VICTORIA'S meat processors are pleading for access to overseas workers, as the farm labour shortage threatens to spill over into another key industry..."

The real migrant crisis....

google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t…
The real migrant crisis....
"[South Korea's] Working age population declines by 750,000 over 4 years... [S. Korea had] a fertility rate of 2.8 in 1980. But the figure declined to 1.5 in 2000, 1.2 in 2010 and 0.9 in 2019..."

koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20…
"Only about 50 per cent of Malaysian workers have returned to Singapore for work since cross-border travel resumed five months ago... renovation and food and beverage (F&B) services, are still struggling to cope with the manpower shortage."

straitstimes.com/business/econo…
"workforce of ... health practitioners is going largely untapped due to [US] licensing and credentialing barriers... 165,000 foreign-trained immigrants in the U.S. hold degrees in health-related fields but are unemployed or underemployed...

news-medical.net/news/20210125/…
"Manufacturers in China are finding it more difficult to hire workers.... The government’s fourth-quarter list of 100 jobs with the greatest labor shortage showed manufacturing-related positions accounted for 36...."

cnbc.com/2021/01/27/chi…
"There is a global lemon shortage, due in part to Covid-19, and it could mean some necessary changes for gin drinkers... The New Zealand citrus season is many months away, and American growers have been hit with a labour shortage due to Covid-19."

odt.co.nz/lifestyle/food…
"Sarawak employers are still in the dark as they face manpower shortage, particularly for foreign workers, to keep their businesses running amid the Covid-19 pandemic."

theborneopost.com/2021/01/31/ind…
""Universally from the [Australian] farmers I've talked to, the last harvest was the most difficult they can remember purely because of the issue of inexperienced labour."

(proposal is to lure workers from NZ, which is facing its own ag labor shortages)

farmweekly.com.au/story/7104086/…
By improving child care options, newly arrived immigrant female workers in Italy have increased the number of native births by roughly 2 per cent.

econstor.eu/bitstream/1041…
"Japan's population shrank by a record 420,000 people last year....[due] in large part to a 60% plunge in foreign arrivals... If the inflow of foreigners continues to be disrupted, the labor shortage will quickly worsen..."

asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Soci…
" "There aren't many daffodil growers left [in the UK]. Field workers are skilled, they require good wages and they are in demand.... We have fewer migrants workers coming...."

bbc.com/news/business-…
"At the end of 2020, it was estimated there was a shortfall of 1 million tech professionals [in the US]... to recruit enough workers... reform immigration policies that prevent international students from working after they graduate."

insidesources.com/immigration-re…
"Russia Eyes Measures to Tackle Migrant Labor Shortage... Close to half of all migrants living in Russia before the pandemic have left the country."

themoscowtimes.com/2021/02/10/rus…
"...[Thailand's] blue-collar workforce of 10 million was not sufficient to meet Thailand’s needs ... migrant workers cover the labour shortage...regulations should be amended to make it easier for them to work in Thailand."

thestar.com.my/aseanplus/asea…
The real migration crisis: not enough migrants
The real migrant crisis....
"[Canadian] Researcher predicts labour shortage due to loss of international enrollment in universities"

thechronicleherald.ca/news/local/res…
The real migrant crisis
"Pandemic travel ban triggers spike in global food prices:
Shortage of labor for harvests causes key index to surge to six-year high"

asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Data…
"Japan ... raised the normal retirement age from 50 to 65 in four decades. And it could further extend the retirement age to 70 in the near future. Yet Japan has not been able to overcome its pension fund crisis and labor shortage..."

epaper.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202103/03/WS…
"In the US... migrant workers [make up] approximately 73% of non-owner [dairy] farm and ranch employers in the nation.... Currently farmers are facing a massive labour shortage, and that impact was felt before the Covid-19 pandemic"

ruralnewsgroup.co.nz/dairy-news/dai…
"[In Canada] more than 20 per cent of all job vacancies were in health care and social assistance, more than any other industry. If nothing is done to change this situation, the shortage of labour will become acute...."

theglobeandmail.com/business/comme…
"The price of fresh fruit and vegetables is set to soar in coming months as severe labour shortages cripple the horticulture sector ...
Australia’s virtual lockout of working holiday makers and migrants... has hit producers hard"

smh.com.au/politics/feder…
The real migrant crisis..
Demand for migrants is high and growing
"Exodus of foreign workers ‘a threat to UK recovery’ Construction, care and hospitality industries all at risk from major shortage of employees, say business leaders"

theguardian.com/world/2021/mar…
"The gap between jobs needing to be filed and the skilled talent pool capable of filling them continues to grow wider in many industries... The ability to retain labor from abroad is essential to closing this gap,"

lexology.com/library/detail…
[In South Africa] "78% of employers struggle to recruit critically skilled resources and 74% indicate that an international search would help to find these resources.” [tho note source is a international recruiting agency...]

businesstech.co.za/news/business/…
This will create the ultimate migration crisis...

"Malaysia offers 8,600 jobs for locals to pick fruit for palm oil giants... Despite offering higher wages and perks, efforts to recruit locals have had little success"

straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/m…
The global competition for migrants is heating up.

"Irish builders are leaving the country to find work....Hundreds of workers have moved to England and continental Europe in recent months, fuelling concerns the country will face a skills shortage when the industry reopens."

newstalk.com/news/its-like-…
“Hong Kong’s IT sector facing shortage of skilled talent as Covid-19 keeps foreigners away and locals mull migration”

scmp.com/news/hong-kong…
“Coronavirus: Migrant influx 'critical' to post-pandemic revival...[Australia] facing a shortage of skilled labour almost unprecedented in our history ...”

google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t…
"[Australian] Farmers are slashing the size of strawberry crops or not planting at all out of fear fruit will rot on the ground amid a picker shortage that is expected to jack up prices at the supermarket."

abc.net.au/news/2021-03-1…
"18,500 vacant positions in the [Israel] tech sector... unable to hire local talent, companies are being forced.. overseas, with 27% of Israeli companies saying they had already opened development centers or software testing facilities in other countries"

calcalistech.com/ctech/articles…
"the number of foreign guest workers has been... declining since 2015 due to Russia's deteriorating economy & the weakening of the ruble. In the long term, Russia risks facing a major lack of manpower as many migrants seek work in Europe, Turkey & Iran"

today.rtl.lu/news/world/a/1…
The real migrant crisis
"The South Korean government and National Assembly are looking to ease regulations on employing foreign nationals and for immigration in the face of labor shortages brought on by the prolonged pandemic."

koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20…
"A survey of dairy farmers conducted by the Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers (RABDF) in December and January, found 63 per cent of farmers struggled to recruit in the last five years."

westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/farming/1…
"Grand Cru Bordeaux estate Château Pédesclaux in Pauillac has enlisted the help of refugees in order to fill labour shortages brought about by the pandemic."

thedrinksbusiness.com/2021/03/refuge…
The real migrant crisis is coming for China...

asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Soci…
"Malaysian plantation firm charters flight for Bangladeshi workers amid labour crunch"

news.trust.org/item/202104081…
"It is a matter of survival for [Australian] businesses in the accommodation, hospitality, cafes and restaurants sectors to access skilled migration. But there is also a critical need for more professionals such as... engineers, surveyors & veterinarians"

miragenews.com/acute-skills-s…
"[China's] working age population has shrunk by more than 5 million people in the last decade as births have dropped... that’s forcing companies to relocate or increase automation...."

cnbc.com/2021/04/09/chi…
"In the future, the [Hungarian] hospitality and hotel industry could suffer from a chronic labor shortage, as the sector has lost much of its popularity among young people as career choices...."

bbj.hu/budapest/trave…
"{Australian] Farm labour crisis sparks competition among states to get overseas workers"

queenslandcountrylife.com.au/story/7202668/…
"Taiwan has planned to loosen rules to attract foreign talent since last year...This is one of the government’s answers to Taiwan's low birth rate and ensuing labor shortage."

www2.staffingindustry.com/row.../Editori…
"The COVID-19 pandemic [in the US] has thrown the century-old problem of finding, hiring, and keeping truck drivers into sharp relief...solving the shortage will take more than pay and additional time at home..."

joc.com/trucking-logis…
The COVID-19 situation caused significant agricultural challenges [in Norway] due to border shuts and quarantine requirements that lead to a shortage of foreign workers, mainly affecting the fruit, vegetable, and berry sector..."

schengenvisainfo.com/news/norway-to…
"The [labor] shortage is occurring in almost every industry in [Quebec] from tourism to manufacturing.... Analysts say lawmakers need to increase immigration levels so that more foreign workers can be hired"

globalnews.ca/news/7764505/q…
"Chamber of Commerce: Finland needs target of 30,000 for skills-based immigration"

helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finlan…
"Between visa issues and COVID, Jersey Shore attractions worry about labor shortage"

nj.com/coronavirus/20…
Note the very reasonable responses to this tweet... not all labor shortages are the result of the real migrant crisis....

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The real migrant crisis
A Norfolk [UK] strawberry grower fears he may not have enough seasonal workers to pick his crop this summer due to post-Brexit immigration red tape... he currently only has 11 of the 62 workers he will need to harvest his crop..."

edp24.co.uk/news/business/…
The real migration crisis
"Currently 1,586,494 expatriate workers are in Kuwait. 151,990 workers permanently left Kuwait in 2020, 350,000 workers are stuck abroad with valid residency. Kuwait is facing 31% of labor shortage...."

arabtimesonline.com/news/350000-ex…
The real migrant crisis
"Quebec plans to tackle its severe shortage of labour caused partly by the COVID-19 pandemic, but also its own government’s policies, by increasing immigration."

cimmigrationnews.com/quebec-to-tack…
"Builders in S'pore hoping for more govt help amid foreign worker crunch after new entry ban"

straitstimes.com/singapore/buil…
"About 2.7-million Americans age 55 or older are contemplating retirement years earlier than they’d imagined because of the pandemic, US government data shows."

businesslive.co.za/bd/world/ameri…
The real migration crisis: Not enough migrants...
The real migration crisis
"Singapore offers foreign worker levy rebate to companies facing labour shortage"

deccanherald.com/international/…
"One in 10 EU nationals in the UK are considering leaving after 30 June, the deadline for applications to remain lawfully in the country post-Brexit... respondents feared they would be victims of the Home Office’s hostile environment policy..."

theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
"Immigration Is A Road Safety Issue.... A long-running skill shortage in the [NZ] automotive sector threatens vehicle inspection and the industry's capacity to train for the future,..."

scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2105…
"The [Australian] hospitality industry alone needs 8,000 chefs and is calling on the government to start recruiting workers from overseas...."

thecaterer.com/news/hospitali…
"UK ‘faces labour shortage’ as Covid and Brexit fuel exodus of overseas workers... Experts say recovery at risk amid sharp fall in EU workers and dwindling interest in UK jobs from abroad"

theguardian.com/business/2021/…
"There are also far fewer foreign workers seeking employment in the UK, with overseas interest in UK jobs more than halving from before the pandemic...."

theguardian.com/business/2021/…
"The UK’s retail and hospitality employers are struggling to find staff as lockdown lifts due to the combined effects of the coronavirus and Brexit."

retail-week.com/people/uk-reta…
"Complaints from [US] businesses about not being able to find workers are actually the precursor to a long-term labor drought—what Emsi calls a sansdemic, literally “without people”—that’s been building for decades."

thedispatch.com/p/our-current-…
"It’s no wonder there’s a shortage of food service workers [in the US]; the job’s lousy" [Much to this: labor shortage (and so the real migrant crisis) is showing up first in less attractive jobs]

baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/…
"Labour-starved Australia offers cash to 'work in paradise.... Queensland is offering US$1,400 to anyone who moves there to work in the tourism sector'"

france24.com/en/live-news/2…
"Norway is short of ... foreign rafting guides,... Swedish battery-cell manufacturer Northvolt needs 3,000 workers... An EU report in December identified shortages in construction, engineering, software development and ... health care."

businesslive.co.za/bd/world/europ…
The real migrant crisis: not enough migrants.

Maine edition.

"S'pore's construction blues: Manpower shortage exacerbated by bar on South Asian workers"

straitstimes.com/business/compa…
If China wakes up to the potential role of immigration in fixing this problem, the real and global migrant crisis will get considerably more acute.

"The entire private sector is struggling to engage employees because of the exodus of foreign workers driven by the pandemic, Malta Employers’ Association head, Joe Farrugia said Friday."

timesofmalta.com/articles/view/…
"China's population is growing at its slowest rate in decades, while the number of people aged between 15 and 59 dropped below 900 million to about 63% of the population in 2020 — down some 7 percentage points from a decade earlier."

cnn.com/2021/05/31/eco…
"The number of migrant workers in Singaporean building sites, shipyards and factories plunged by 16 per cent in 2020 to 311,000, according to government statistics. The total number of international workers also decreased by 14 per cent."

dtnext.in/News/World/202…
"Who could possibly have known in advance that getting rid of 188,000 people from abroad who did jobs [in the UK] would leave us with a workforce that was 188,000 short?"

independent.co.uk/voices/tim-mar…
"The labour shortage was severe in manufacturing and for white-collar jobs, with companies in eastern Hungary importing thousands of workers from Ukraine...."

wsau.com/2021/06/08/ana…
"The [UK] Road Haulage Association... said there were about 60,000 driver shortages and that there used to be about 60,000 drivers from the EU...."

bbc.com/news/uk-wales-…
"international job search websites such as Adzuna have seen a "massive collapse" in the number of foreign workers seeking jobs in the UK."

bbc.com/news/business-…
“a big reason employers can’t fill jobs... In many cases, the workers they want simply don’t exist.”

etftrends.com/entrepreneur-e…
Exodus of EU workers leaves UK construction industry facing shortages
ft.com/content/6ddd9b…
More pay for working people is good. But no-one to fill jobs at a good wage is bad. The real migrant crisis is about jobs that can’t be filled (by natives or available migrants) even when the pay is good.

thenevadaindependent.com/article/its-no…
"Chicken wings prices have shot up 99% because farms can't get enough workers, a Buffalo, New York, restaurant owner said"

businessinsider.com/labor-shortage…
"Post-Brexit labour shortages deal blow to UK cannabis production"

The real marijuana crisis: not enough migrants

ft.com/content/496968…
"“The prices that people are asking [to work in UK construction] now... makes it uneconomical... There’s a massive, massive labour shortage...' [the] weekly pay of bricklayers had jumped by nearly 40% in the 12 months to April 2021”

building.co.uk/focus/so-much-…
"[Australian] Miners want skilled migration lifted to combat worker shortage"

thewest.com.au/business/minin…
"The [UK food] supply chain is creaking under pressure due to worker shortages ... There is a lack of drivers, as well as those working in harvesting, manufacturing, and packaging."

express.co.uk/life-style/foo…
"{a labor shortage in the [US] trucking industry has contributed to supply chain problems [in fuel supply].... the baby boomer drivers that are out there in their late 60s and 70s are starting to get out of it and go into retirement."

thedenverchannel.com/news/local-new…
"The [UK] poultry industry is reporting a 10% fall in the number of birds being slaughtered for meat in recent weeks... the industry heavily reliant on EU nationals... But migrants have been returning to their home countries"

bbc.com/news/business-…
"Restaurant owners in New Zealand will switch off their lights to raise awareness of the crippling skill shortage... calling for the government to make changes to the current visa rules to allow a significant portion of the migrant workforce to remain..."
hcamag.com/nz/news/genera…
"Film director James Cameron says he and wife Suzy have been unable to expand their vegetable growing operation in the Wairarapa due to the labour shortage gripping [New Zealand]... Lately they have resorted to grazing..."

nzherald.co.nz/business/out-o…
"Somerset cheesemaker Norseland says Brexit 'partly' behind factory staff shortage"

business-live.co.uk/manufacturing/…
"the [UK engineering] industry needs to attract more engineers or the UK will struggle to deliver major infrastructure schemes, the boss of Crossrail has warned."

building.co.uk/news/crossrail…
"[US] Immigrant and non-immigrant visas issued during the year ended October 2020 were down by nearly five million, or 54%, from 2019."

axios.com/immigration-la…
"German companies [are] already missing around 270,000 qualified men and women.... this at least partly due to a drop-off in skilled EU immigration, which includes craftspeople, engineers, nurses, care workers, cooks and metal workers...."

thelocal.de/20210623/germa…
The real migrant crisis: not *nearly* enough migrants to fill this gap.

"A shortage of doctors and nurses in Japan’s aging population contributed to the country’s sluggish Covid vaccine rollout, says Keio University professor Sayuri Shirai... In an aging society it’s very difficult to find doctors and nurses."

cnbc.com/2021/06/24/doc…
"The federal government’s Integration Commissioner, Annette Widmann-Mauz, has warned that Germany is facing a critical shortage of skilled workers, after migration to the federal republic dropped off significantly last year”

iamexpat.de/expat-info/ger…
"EU workers leaving ‘will leave UK industries in total crisis’...
A post-Brexit exodus has left the hospitality, construction and trucking sectors with severe labour shortages – and the worst is yet to come."

bigissue.com/latest/employm…
"22 new occupations have been added to [Australia's] Priority Migration Skilled Occupation List ... to address ongoing skills shortages" [list now includes auditors, surveyors, doctors, engineers, nurses, software engineers, social workers, chefs]

lexology.com/library/detail…
"farmers, & many other parts of the agricultural & food supply chain in the UK, have been heavily dependent upon European workers over the past 10-15 years but over one million EU nationals have left the UK in the last 12 months, & many may not return..."

businessleader.co.uk/could-a-nation…
"Sheffield ... schools might have to use dry pasta and fish fingers among other emergency standby ingredients [for school meals]... as a result of fewer drivers...."

thehill.com/policy/interna…
"Post-Brexit labour shortages deal blow to UK cannabis production"

californianewstimes.com/post-brexit-la…
"The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) said the government needed to immediately update its “shortage occupations list” to include several areas where employers are finding it difficult to recruit staff, including butchers, bricklayers and welders."

theguardian.com/business/2021/…
"The number of corporate calls [mentioning] “labor shortage” is surging,... until 2021, there had been fewer than 60 mentions per quarter of the phrase “labor shortage.” In the second quarter of 2021, [it] was referenced 136 times."

qz.com/2025987/from-f…
"Lloyds... said its monthly survey of [UK] businesses showed that almost a fifth report difficulties getting staff with the right skills.... 16 months of coronavirus restrictions and Britain’s exit from the European Union have inflicted long-term damage"

livemint.com/news/world/uk-…
"22% of employees in [UK] construction are 51-60... workers are entering retirement, leading to a significant loss of skills ... without anybody else coming in to plug the gaps."

pbctoday.co.uk/news/planning-…
"Malaysia, the world second-largest palm oil producer, is facing a labour shortfall of around 32,000 people due to corononavirus restrictions... estimated to cause ... $2.41 billion... in losses anually due to unharvested ripe palm oil fruits"

reuters.com/world/asia-pac…
"The [Thailand] Department of Fisheries is expediting the renewal of sea books for registering migrant workers to shore up labour shortages in the industry...."

bangkokpost.com/thailand/gener…
“Currently, if you’re an IT analyst, a vet or a graphic designer you can come back to UK, but it doesn’t include bathroom fitters, kitchen installers, fencers, tree surgeons, locksmiths. There’s a very long list.”

cityam.com/eu-nationals-l…

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Charles Kenny Profile picture
7 Apr
My new book for middle schoolers, Your World Better: Global Progress and What You Can Do About It, available to download free from my blog, or you can buy kindle or hard copies (with author payments going to UNICEF).

charleskenny.blogs.com/weblog/2021/04…
Broad message: America and the world are better places to live than they were when your parents or grandparents were young, but there’s still a lot wrong and some stuff getting worse. Working together, your generation can help fix that.
Motivated by talking to my kids and their friends, who seem a bit depressed about the state of the planet. (Who can blame them after the past year?) The idea is to tip readers back from helpless despair towards action motivated by realistic optimism.
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6 Apr
I just got vaccinated by a woman born in Vietnam, with a vaccine created by two Turkish refugees living in Germany and manufactured by a US company run by a Greek migrant. Thank you, world.
(Apologies re. "Turkish refugees" actually a Turkish migrant and a German born to Turkish parents).
See also the Ebola vaccine, a combination of donors help pay for the vaccinations, it was developed by researchers in US, Germany, Canada, vaccine trials in nine countries, support from WHO.
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19 Mar
I'm told people in the UK who ordered The Plague Cycle are going to have to wait a little longer to get it. In very partial recompense, I present my utterly arguable list of top ten pandemics, ranked by impact on human history....
1. Neanderthal herpes: Neanderthals were already at home and well adapted to life outside Africa before anatomically modern humans arrived. Why did the Neanderthals end up extinct?
...One (disputed) theory: the newcomers arrived with a herpesvirus that was particularly deadly to previously unexposed locals. Maybe there wouldn’t have been human history at all if it weren’t for this pandemic.
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24 Sep 20
A short thread on liberty and public health in the US, with snakes (guest appearance by a worm).
The rod of Asclepius, symbol of medicine –here on a CDC logo (l). Clinical parasitologist Rosemary Drisdelle thinks the rod might originally reference a treatment for the guinea worm –healers remove the worm from your leg by slowly winding its tail end around a match stick (r).
Public health has long been a factor in the expansion of government power: restricting the travel of goods and people, keeping the sick in their homes or sanitariums, mandates from pasteurization through sewage treatment to trash removal, wild animal control...
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15 Sep 20
Justin and Dev gave a test to 2,300 students in India that combined questions from TIMSS, PIRLS and tests given in West Africa and Latin America. That allowed them to accurately compare learning outcomes across 80 countries. Fantastic work, but depressing results.
Some findings: in poor countries, more spending per student associated with higher test scores (not so much in rich); family *and* national income both associated with higher scores; learning inequality higher where income inequality is higher; [...]
...Lower test scores for girls are strongly correlated with higher
rates of child marriage and desired fertility; test-score divergence between private and government schools is significantly larger in more unequal countries.

But read Jusitn's thread!
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7 Sep 20
Just for example, here’s H. Clinton on Kissinger: a "friend" whose counsel she has "relied on." No one should be friends with this man.
To be clear, Clinton is far from unique —Bloomberg, Albright, all sorts of Democrats have embraced the man alongside Trump and loads of Republicans.
Or take this example. Many people I admire going to this event at which Kissinger is the honorary chair.

prnewswire.com/news-releases/…
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