Tuesday, May 10, 2016

4 million Poles considering emigration for work on the West – Polish Radio

Today, they want to leave mostly young people from the east of the country, with smaller cities and less educated.


 

emigration considering 19.1 per cent. active or potential participants in the labor market in Poland; is about 4 percent points. more than last year – emphasize the authors of the study. At the same time they point out that a group of nearly 4 million people, or 13 percent. the entire adult population of the country.

7.1 percent. (Approx. 1.5 million people) to leave the Polish labor is strong and is planning to within the next year – indicated.

According to the report, for 78.8 percent. respondents most important motivation to go abroad are wages higher than in Poland. In contrast, 58.9 percent. a reason for emigration is considered a higher standard of living in the West.

The third place (44 percent). Respondents indicated the opportunity to travel and explore the world; This result, according to experts Work Service can attest to the generational change that has taken place in the country and the market entry of young people for whom life experiences are important, not the stabilization of the profession.

 

gladly to Germany

The most important direction of migration are other EU countries; Poles most went to Germany (34 percent.), The UK (18 percent.), The Netherlands (6 percent.), And Spain (5 per cent.).

A large number of respondents could not clearly identify the country, where he would like to work. According to the authors, this may mean that consideration of departure is in the phase of wishes.

The main barrier to emigration in the case of 70.6 percent. respondents remain attachment to family and friends in Poland. 36.9 percent. the country keeps an attractive work place. For 23.8 percent. obstacle is ignorance of foreign languages.

 

More migrants in the East

More often declared a desire to leave the people of the eastern region (covering the province. Świętokrzyskie, Lesser, Podkarpackie, Lublin and Podlasie) – this applied to 32 per cent. respondents. The least frequent – southwest (province. Lower Silesia, Opole, Silesia) and central (woj. Mazowieckie and Łódzkie): 9 percent respectively. and 10 percent.

According to Work Service greater desire to emigrate due to the level of employment in the area of ​​residence. In the east, the average unemployment rate is higher than in Poland, is also a smaller number of investments – he added.

The study also indicates that the desire departure affects also the size of the place of residence; the decision to emigrate usually take rural residents (38 percent.) and cities with a population of less than 100 thousand. Men (33 percent.).

 

want to emigrate, young

Emigration usually consider young persons under 35 years of age – a total of 62 per cent. The decision also affects education – wants to leave 32 percent. those who have completed only primary school, and 29 per cent. – High school graduates. The authors note, however, that the desire to leave the country for work declared only 19 percent. graduates of vocational schools and 20 percent. people after graduation.

The impact of the decision also have a lack of income, and in the case of workers – wages of less than 2 thousand. zł.

Krzysztof Inglot of Work Service indicated that if potential immigrants received an offer to work for at least 2.4 thousand. zł in Poland would be willing to stay in the country. Salary of 2.4 thousand. zł considered “decision threshold” to move to other Polish cities, but not abroad.

Only 17.4 percent. of respondents want to emigrate to the Polish fixed, far more often men than women.

President of Work Service Maciej Witucki said that people today are leaving and returning; exhausted, the percentage of those who want to settle abroad permanently, improved market while at work in Poland, as evidenced by, among others, fewer and fewer immigrants with higher education.

The desire to emigrate there is also the impact of a possible reform of the system of granting social allowances in the EU – 73 percent. It claims that the reduction of benefits will not change their decision to emigrate.

Work Service also points out that more and more often in the labor market in Poland, immigrants fill a gap arising from the Poles traveling to the West. Currently in the country on the basis of the authorization has about 1 million foreigners, mostly Ukrainians. Foreigners do not compete well in the labor market with the Poles – take the work where the Poles do not want to work.

The Poles themselves while most would work with the Americans, the British, the Germans, and the Czech Republic.

Research Work commissioned service center Millward Brown conducted between 4 and 6 March on a representative sample of 671 people.

 

PAP, abo

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