Tram drivers and bus drivers in local public transport in particular are older.
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Berlin The state of Hesse wants to know exactly. The Goethe University in Frankfurt calculated how demographics will affect the labor market in the coming years – right down to district level. For the district of Fulda, for example, it can be read that the number of annual retirements will increase from currently around 1,650 people to 2,850 by 2030. An increase of 73 percent in less than a decade.
What is happening on a small scale in the Fulda district can be seen on a large scale in Germany – the republic is aging rapidly: “The baby boomers are retiring, that applies to all occupational groups,” says Enzo Weber from the Institute for Labor Market and Occupational Research (IAB).
Without compensation, for example through immigration, demographics will reduce the potential labor force by seven million people by 2035. And that hits some professions particularly hard.
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