By keeping so many people in place, the pandemic has made humanity’s demographic imbalance more obvious - rapidly aging rich nations produce too few new workers, while countries with a surplus of young people often lack work for all. The global drive to attract foreigners with skills, especially those that fall somewhere between physical labor and a physics Ph.D., aims to smooth out a bumpy emergence from the pandemic.ĬOVID disruptions have pushed many people to retire, resign or just not return to work. ![]() And in Australia, where mines, hospitals and pubs are all short-handed after nearly two years with a closed border, the government intends to roughly double the number of immigrants it allows into the country over the next year. Israel recently finalized a deal to bring health care workers from Nepal. Canada plans to give residency to 1.2 million new immigrants by 2023.
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