Imperial Germany allows mass immigration of skilled workers

[futurist]

What if Imperial Germany would have implemented an immigration policy which would have allowed skilled workers (in other words, high-IQ workers) to immigrate to Germany en masse?

The logic behind such an immigration policy would be to help Germany's population (something which would certainly be beneficial for Germany as it faces an increasingly powerful Russia next door) increase but also to reduce the risk of immigrants taking jobs away from Germans. If the immigrants to Germany will be skilled/high-IQ, then they will probably be more likely to create their own businesses and thus to create additional jobs for Germans.

Basically, I am thinking of a German immigration policy similar to the one that Canada and Australia have today--with one major exception. Specifically, due to the different values of the times, Germany's immigration policy is only going to accept Christians and Jews and not people of other religions. I strongly doubt that Germans would have been willing to accept a massive numbers of immigrants who are neither Christian nor Jewish in the late 19th and early 20th centuries--and even accepting a lot of Jews is going to be something which the German leadership is actually going to need to get its people to accept.

Anyway, any thoughts on this?

Also, just how much larger is Germany's population going to be in this scenario? In addition to this, what about if the World Wars never occur in this scenario?

[futurist]

For the record, I was also thinking of the German government actively recruiting smart individuals in other countries and giving them scholarships to study in Germany as well as a pathway to acquiring German citizenship.

[Krall]

I'd like to quickly address a couple of misconceptions in your first post. Firstly that "skilled" workers have high IQs and "unskilled" workers have low IQs, which is not the case, intelligence is not the same thing as the skills that are economically valuable at a given time. Secondly that "unskilled" immigration would take jobs from Germans and not create more jobs - just because "unskilled", poor workers would not personally employ other people doesn't mean that they wouldn't create more economic activity themselves, increasing demand and thus creating jobs elsewhere.

Anyway, I'm not sure how much this kind of policy would've changed things - it seems that the patterns of German migration in the 19th and early 20th century included high levels of emigration, which was apparently sometimes encouraged by government bodies due to fears of overpopulation. Germany would have benefited more from being able to retain its own population as it grew, than trying to attract strictly "skilled" immigrants.