According to an article on the BBC site today unemployment figures in Poland have dropped quite drastically.
Unfortunately, the reason for the drop is not domestic job creation but the mass exodus:
Polish unemployment has reached its lowest level in five years, spurred in part by the rush of people seeking work abroad, government figures show.
If you’re wondering where they’ve gone to, then you obviously haven’t been paying too much attention to what’s going on around you. Ireland now has more than 150 thousand Polish immigrants!
Krystian has mentioned some of the issues that they face on his English blog over the last few months, but one of his more recent posts is really distressing:
People leavinig Poland unprepared (without job, pleace to sleep) and without enough money to assure life without a job for at least one month , and without return ticket to Poland.
For those of us over 30 this probably all sounds too familiar. It wasn’t that long ago that we were leaving Ireland in our thousands to seek work abroad rather than face the desperation of the ever-growing dole queues.
If you want to worry yourself a bit about our future, then David McWilliams’ recent article should give you plenty of food for thought.
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