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Aydan zouz, commissioner for immigration, refugees and integration, told the Financial Times that only a quarter to a third of the newcomers would enter the labour market over the next five years, and for many others we will need up to 10.

The Institute for Employment Research (IAB) found only 45 per cent of Syrian refugees in Germany have a school-leaving certificate and 23 per cent a college degree.

Statistics from the Federal Labour Agency show the employment rate among refugees stands at just 17 per cent.

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It said 484,000 of the refugees are looking for work, up from 322,000 last July an increase of 50 per cent.

Of those, 178,500 are officially unemployed, meaning they not only have no work but are not enrolled in any training programmes or language courses up 27 per cent on last July.

The figures will be hard to swallow for Angela Merkel as she seeks a fourth term as chancellor in elections this September.

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Ms Merkels poll ratings plummeted in 2015 when she responded to Europes migrant crisis by announcing a deeply unpopular open-door policy.

It was hoped the arrival of so many working-age, highly-motivated immigrants would help end Germanys skills shortage and solve a demographic crisis posed by its dangerously low birth rate.

Dieter Zetsche, chief executive of carmaker Daimler, said the refugees could lay the foundation for the next German economic miracle.

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Moroccan Police look at immigrants trying to jump the six-meter-high fence in Ceuta, Spanish enclave on the north of Africa, 09 December 2016.

But the truth about the migrants lack of qualifications and language skills is now sinking in.

Ms zouz told the FT: There has been a shift in perceptions.

Many of the first Syrian refugees to arrive in Germany were doctors and engineers, but they were succeeded by many, many more who lacked skills.

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