Migrants in the European Union constitute a much higher share of occupations in which national authorities have identified a labor shortage than in occupations without labor shortages, as of 2021. Migrants comprised almost ** percent of the workforce in all labor shortage occupations in the EU that year, while they made up just *** percent of the workforce in non-shortage occupations. Many European governments see increasing targeted labor migration for work in sectors experiencing shortages as a key way of relieving the widespread labor and skills shortages being experience across the continent.Â
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