German Jobs Increasingly Threatened by Economic Transformation

An employee on an assembly line in Zwickau, Germany.

Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg
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Germany’s labor market is increasingly weighed down by the country’s struggle to modernize its economy, according to a new study.

Surveying regional labor agencies, the Institute for Employment Research found that structural problems — like challenges with digitization and efforts to trim dependence on fossil fuels — are seen by more than a third as a key reason for job losses. That’s up from single digits in 2022.