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Deputy Mayor Wiederkehr sees here a worrying democratic deficit and, as a consequence, wants to “force” naturalizations. The demand would exist: a fifth of EU citizens and half of third-country nationals declared that they wanted to become Austrians.
8 out of 1,000 naturalized
Due to restrictive requirements, Austria has had one of the lowest naturalization rates in the EU for years, as explained by study author Philipp Hammer from MA 17 (Integration and Diversity). In 2019, only eight out of every thousand people living in Vienna were naturalized with a foreign passport.
The good news could pay off in the education sector. Newcomers always have superior educational qualifications with them. Although only a fifth of those who immigrated until 1984 had a higher education (from Matura), it is 56 percent of those who have arrived since 2011.
However, 39 per cent of immigrants from third countries have a compulsory education certificate at most. A figure that is at least slowly falling: in 2010 it was 47 percent.
The level of education is aligned
In the meantime, the level of education of young people completing their training in Austria will adjust rapidly. If 68 percent of 15 to 19-year-olds with no immigration background complete a higher education, the figure is already 58 percent for those with a third-country immigration background.
However, for young people with a migration background from the EU, the number has dropped significantly to the current 61%, while the number of those with no more than compulsory schooling has almost doubled in recent years.
More than half of Viennese schoolchildren grow up multilingual, that is, with a first language other than German; the current figure is 52%. This can be a “great opportunity” for a return, but it should be used. Therefore, as agreed in the red-rose coalition agreement, language training should be expanded from kindergarten onward. In addition, the head of Neos wants parents to join, a corresponding funding approach should be worked out at the beginning of the year.
Up to 37 percent out of work
The highest unemployment rate is found by people with a low level of education and parents from abroad: 37 percent are unemployed here. Of those who also have a low level of education but scored highest in a third country, significantly fewer, 21 percent, are looking for work.
The lowest unemployment rate is found in Viennese with no history of migration and higher education: only four percent are unemployed here.
At the same time, no one earns better than men with no immigration history. Women with education from third countries earn an average of 1,500 euros less per month, but only a third of this difference can also be explained by different levels of education or previous employment. However, even women with no immigration history are paid significantly less than their male counterparts, and here, too, most of the pay gap cannot be explained by data.
Although women are more severely affected, or rather twice, men with a migratory background also earn significantly less than those with Austrian-born parents. There is the smallest pay gap compared to men with Austrian education and parents from EU countries, and even they earn an average of almost 600 euros net less, of which only about half can be explained.
New immigrants live the most expensive
At the same time, nobody lives more expensive and overcrowded than Viennese educated abroad who have immigrated since 2011. On average, you only have 28 square meters available per person and pay just under € 11 per square meter.
Those with no immigration history, on the other hand, live on average 43 square meters per capita and pay 7.60 euros per square meter for it.
In communal apartments, 51 percent of the tenants have a migratory background, which roughly corresponds to their share of the total population. By contrast, 82 percent of Viennese with no immigration background live in property.
As for the employees of the city of Vienna, approximately one in four people have a migrant background. Here the hospital operator Gesundheitsverbund (formerly KAV, note) stands out with 34.7 percent, while in the rest of urban units “only” 17.6 percent has foreign origin, as shown by the diversity monitor prepared in parallel .
Author Kurt Luger from MA 35 explained this with special initiatives in the course of which foreign nurses were recruited for hospitals in the past. In total, employees were born in 117 different countries, with three-quarters of the staff coming from just one country: Austria.
