According to Confebask, the CAV will have to increase its workforce by more than 400,000 people over three decades.

The general manager of Confebask, Eduardo Aretxagahas indicated that the Basque Autonomous Community (CAV) has a “problem” and will need a “demographic renaissance” if it is to maintain its current level of prosperity and well-being” and added that in three decades this will be necessary to to increase the working population by more than 400,000 people, of which approx 237,000 They are said to be intended to cover generational change 177,000 to maintain “past levels of economic growth.”

This reflection was carried out by the manager of Confebask, in the context of the ‘II International Conference on the Confluence of Education and Business’ organized by Zedarriak in the Guggenheim Museum Bilbaowhere he warned that the decline in the working population in Euskadi will be accentuated in the coming decades.

“There are 400,000 people, everything will be missing,” said Arechaga, who added that “a large part” of those registered in Lanbide do not have the qualifications needed.

The head of Confebask recalled that, according to the surveys conducted among companies by Adegi, Cebek and SEA, eight out of ten companies They say they’re having trouble hiring the people they need, up from nearly five in 10 in 2016. That is why there is an increase.

After indicating that in 2010 the number of people of working age in the Basque Autonomous Community began to disappear, he stated that in this decade until 2030, almost 25% of the current working population – about 240,000 people – will be in trouble. retire. Furthermore, 700,000 people, who represent By 2050, 70% of current employees will retire.

“Demographic winter”

Given this ‘panorama’ he has defended that Euskadi ‘a immigration strategy for employment to help overcome this demographic winter” and be able to maintain business competitiveness and thus “current levels of prosperity and well-being.

In this sense, he pointed out that they, together with the Basque Government, are leading the implementation of a ‘relevant’ pilot project to recruit qualified jobs “from beyond our borders”, which they hope to launch in June, according to the employers’ association.

Confebask has indicated that it is necessary to analyze ‘where and what’ it wants to attract and that in its opinion this should be the case. Latin America and the rest of the state” and both professional and student profiles in double degrees.

In that sense, he pointed out that they are going to tackle a project of recruitment in Latin America in the field of industry and technology and together with universities, a plan for double international master’s degrees will be developed. Another initiative will be to attract VET students, both from Latin America and other communities.