More than 123,000 Greeks found jobs in Germany last year, an 11 percent rise on 2011, according to recent figures.
They were just some of the Europeans to benefit from the lowest jobless rate Germany has seen in 20 years, according to figures released Thursday by the Federal Employment Agency. Over 253,000 Italians, more than 50,000 Spaniards and nearly 57,000 Portuguese also found jobs in the continent’s top economy last year.
The biggest demand in Germany was for qualified professionals to work in the industrial sector, leading to a significant increase in the number of engineers from southern Europe who moved there over the past year. Nevertheless, many emigrants ended up in some of the country’s 7 million low-paying jobs known popularly as minijobs, and which partly explain the German economic miracle.
Although official forecasts point to a stalled labor market in 2013, a survey by Manpower among 1,000 businesspeople shows that nine percent are planning to hire more people in the first quarter of the year.
Munich, the Bavarian capital, is the city that created the most jobs in all of Germany last year.
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