Italy helps Poland solve its unemployment problem

Poland has had a high unemployment rate for a long time now. Under the new Polish government the unemployment rate has dropped from about 18% down to about 16%. And now that Italy has opened its labor market suddenly to Polish employees, Poland may see another reduction in its unemployment rate. New labour market opens for Poles

The Polish government is very quick to announce a reduction in the unemployment rate. But what is lacking is information about the number of jobs that are being filled by Polish people in Poland. Though unemployment is going down in Poland, employment is not growing as much as on employment is going down.

Poland is exporting its talented laborers to European Union countries and is experiencing a labor shortage in the country.Can Poland woo back its emigrants?

Poland has become the largest recipient of funds from the European Union. But many industries are complaining that they are on able to find people to fill job openings to do the work created by these funds coming into the country. Even the agricultural minister wants to be able to bring people in from Ukraine because Polish workers who used to do the jobs have gone to Spain to get much more money than they can earn in Poland.

The city of Wroclaw has created an incentive program to try and lure workers back to Poland. The Polish government is considering an incentive program to try to keep people in Poland.

The Polish Government, of course, is very happy that the labor market in Italy is open to Polish workers since this will make people in Poland happy and the Government will be able to show a further decrease in unemployment.

How long this will be able to go on before the brain drain has a serious impact on the economy, and it is serious enough to get the Polish government's attention to recognize that there is a problem, remains to be seen..

Source: The material without changes is copied from the Polish Outlook by Masterplan.