wouter van ooijen wrote:

>> BTW, this afternoon I was watching the 12PM news and I have learned that
>> a company in the vibration sensors market, here in Switzerland, was
>> hiring and they have about 30 positions open. As their HR manager said,
>> they are looking in EU and others countries 'cause there are not enough
>> qualified people here.
> 
> Here in the Netherlands I too hear over and over that we do not have
> enough well-educated people. Turkey is not EC yet, but maybe some
> agreement already exists to make working here possible.

I always hear, for many years now, these tales of engineers and programmers
being scarce, sometimes from the USA, sometimes from various places in
Europe. Funny thing is that this rarely seems to correlate with an increase
in the offered wages. As I think there's something to the idea that the
relationship between offer and supply controls the price, I'd expect that
such a scarcity results in increasing salary offers. Until this happens,
I'm reasonably reluctant in believing there's actually a short of supply.
Maybe there's a short of supply at the offered wages... but that's a
different thing :)

Gerhard

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