New Delhi, July 20 -- BERLIN - More than half of Germany's highest earners have actively explored working abroad in the past twelve months, according to a survey commissioned by the job platform Indeed, with 54 percent of households earning at least 6,000 euros per month applying for positions internationally or researching foreign labor markets in that period, a figure labor economists describe as a structural signal rather than a cyclical one.

288,000 German citizens relocated abroad in a single year, a Destatis figure representing one of the highest emigration totals on modern record for a country not experiencing acute political crisis. Germany's economy has contracted for two consecutive years. But the Indeed research suggests the m...