Professor: In the next ten years there will be a gap in the labor market that will have to be filled by foreigners

Professor of social and demographic politics of the University of Tallinn Lauri Leppik announced in the air of radio Äripäev, that in ten years, when the current 10-19-year-olds enter the labor

market, the situation with the labor shortage will improve. Workers. Photo illustrative. Photo: Ethan Ethan Sarkar / Pexels

Professor of social and demographic politics at Tallinn University Lauri Leppik has declared on the air of radio Äripäev, that in ten years, when the current

10-19 year olds enter the labor market, the situation with the labor shortage will better.

“Because in the age group of 20-29 year-olds there are simply fewer young people than among 10-19-year-olds, this will have consequences: in the future of Estonian entrepreneurs will face a temporary labor shortage which will have to be solved by immigration,” Leppik said.

He said, Although it is characteristic of the demographic pyramid that at a determined age people are fewer, in the Estonian labor market these differences aresharper.

Thedemographicpyramidhasbeendifferent.

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