FORMATION PROFESSIONNELLE ET MARCHE DE L'EMPLOI ET MARCHE DE L'EMPLOI -- LA DIFFICILE INTEGRATION DES IMMIGRES EN ALLEMAGNE.

Germany hosts a significant immigrant population, whose composition is a result of its recruitment policy in the sixties in various countries of southern Europe. It is also due to the massive arrival of ethnic Germans emigrating from former populating areas in Eastern Europe. Since that time, no real politics of integration has been conducted. Those immigrants have been left to their own devices, with disastrous results in terms of vocational training and integration into the labour market. The unemployment rate of immigrants is double that of Germans and, if they succeed in finding a job, their wages are often low. Today the situation is notably different. With a birth rate under 1.4 children per woman for over thirty, Germany can no longer ignore this immigrant population that, including their descendants, numbers almost 15 million. That is why a couple of years ago, the federal government and the regions, as well as employers, employees and immigrants associations forged a significant pact designed to improve the mechanisms which integrate immigrants. This paper examines the various barriers to immigrants in the German labour market and the remedial measures that have been undertaken. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]