2. The German Job Roulette

3. Index The German Job Roulette- What is it? Historical backgrund Facts and consequences Ways to get out Current news Sources Surprise : )‏

4. What is it? Globalization has split the German workforce No security for jobs Imbalances between winners and losers in Globaliziation -> Germans losers, Eastern Europeans winners

5. Historical Background Globaliziation power served Germany: - German goods were global leaders -German workers most qualified, highest wages, safe jobs, best social benefits  Model economy

6. Mid- 90's: 1,3 Mio. workers fired in construction sector --> upcoming service and export industry wasn't used by unemployed 2004: workers from the East pushed into Germany ( subsidized by Brussels)‏  Record of unemployment

7. Facts and consequences Lost jobs in agriculture and coal mining by replacement from cheap workers Increase of economy, per capita income, investments, etc. Companies relocate jobs in the East  Finding work in the automotive industy or chemical engineering (germanys growth sectors)‏  Hundrets lost jobs or had to wait long for their wages  Germany biggest investor in the East

8. highly motivated, disciplined, unbeatably cheap workers ( e.g. Seasonal Workers)‏ highly motivated, disciplined, unbeatably cheap workers ( e.g. Seasonal Workers)‏ Still employed earn less, work more Still employed earn less, work more High qualified workers difficult to replace High qualified workers difficult to replace  Germans victims of globalization (too expensive), can't compete with foreigners  Acception to save jobs  Winners of globalization

9. Seasonal workers Thierman has asparagus plantage in Kirchdorf (900 soccer fields) -> main supplier for Aldi + Edeka Polish are needed: more motivated as Germans more workforce by training Is obliged to take a part of the team from labor office Direct competition with Greeks-> Turks Spaniards->North Africans Zurück

10. Ways to get out Intervention by the state against capitalism, job migration Introduction of minimum wages in East Minimum Wage e.g. artificcially raised wages --> companies would flee, free to locate were they want Everybody earns from low prices Germans could compete again Problem with Hartz VI receivers

11. Rules for companies No more 1€-jobs, lowwage jobs (1/5 of emploees) -> raise of unemployment Loss of jobs - test of min. wage in costruction industry led to 650.000 unemployed Illegal employment No banning for exploitation Employees: No one can stop people to get money for a better living standart

12. Current news Economy grows again (2,4% per year)‏ People want German quality back Less unemployed (8,7%)‏

13. Sources http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirtschaft_Deutschl ands http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirtschaft_Deutschl ands http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,498041,00.gif http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/jfa0258l.jp g http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/jfa0258l.jp g Spiegel Special, International edition No. 7 / 2005 „Globalization“

14. Thanks for your attention and Merry X-Mas : )‏