This blog has already covered the benefits at a macro level for Portugal and Madeira. Such as strengthening a weak demographic situation due to an aging population and low birth rates. Supplementing local manpower shortages, both skilled and unskilled. Making a huge contribution to social security income, and taking comparatively little money out …. andContinue reading “What are the Madeirans gaining or losing as a result of the deep divide between them and legal immigrants?”
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The matters at the heart of widening divisions between Madeirans and immigrants. The employment of immigrants in precious jobs opportunities. This allegedly leading to increasing emigration of Madeirans to find work away from home. Also there is a wide perception that high immigration puts a downward pressure on wage structures for local people.
This has the origin of Fransisco Gomes of the extreme right political party, Chega, although often mentioned in social media too. Madeira is in a golden age of employment. Unemployment is at its lowest level for many years, and continuing to decline. The difficulty in filling vacancies has seen employers searching for staff overseas forContinue reading “The matters at the heart of widening divisions between Madeirans and immigrants. The employment of immigrants in precious jobs opportunities. This allegedly leading to increasing emigration of Madeirans to find work away from home. Also there is a wide perception that high immigration puts a downward pressure on wage structures for local people.”