Press release No. N 007 of 14 February 2020
The number of new apprentices is falling less rapidly in many occupational groups of the crafts sector than the relevant average for all vocational training occupations. This is shown by a special evaluation the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) has carried out as the Skilled Immigration Act is entering into force on 1 March 2020. The total number of new apprenticeship contracts concluded in the years 2008 to 2018 decreased by 14.1%, from 607,600 to 521,900.
In these ten years, the number of new contracts of people holding a foreign citizenship almost doubled, from 31,100 to 61,000. Over the same period, the number of new apprenticeship contracts concluded for selected shortage occupations in the crafts sector which are on the labour shortage list of the Federal Employment Agency fell only slightly by 0.8% from approximately 135,000 to 134,000.
