Study finds immigrants helped create 1.3 million jobs in Germany

In 2014, entrepreneurs and small-business owners with foreign backgrounds created some 1.3 million jobs in Germany, according to a new report released last Thursday.

The study, published by the Bertelsmann Foundation, one of Germany's largest nonprofits, found a 36 percent rise in such job creation over the past decade; in 2005, immigrants helped introduce some 947,000 jobs. This advance came while the number of people with immigrant backgrounds in Germany increased by just 9 percent during the same period.

The study found that immigrant businesses encompass a diverse range of activities — only 28 percent of business owners with foreign roots "are active within the restaurant and retail sectors, marking a 10 percent decrease since 2005," Deutsche Welle reports. "Many are present in other service sectors, including construction or manufacturing."    (Washington Post)

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