Since the beginning of the full-scale war of Russia against Ukraine and the mass migration of refugees to the EU countries, 372,000 Ukrainian refugees have found jobs in Poland.

Most of them work in the following voivodeships: in Mazowiecki (82.8 thousand. ), Lower Silesia (39.5 thousand. ), Lodz (36.4 thousand. ), Wielkopolska (34.5 thousand. This is reported by the analytical center of the international employment agency Gremi Personal with reference to the Ministry of Family and Social Policy of the Republic of Poland..

Gremi Personal CEO Tomasz Bogdevich notes that, compared to 2021, the demand for vacancies in the agency from the Poles increased by 9%, including those positions traditionally occupied by employees from Ukraine.

There are several explanations for this growth: first: the rise in the cost of living in Poland, high inflation (according to the forecast of the European Commission, annual inflation in Poland will be 12.2%) and an increase in mortgage rates.

Bogdevich also noted that the Poles are beginning to master professions that were almost ignored before.. They became interested, for example, in work in the food industry and in logistics.

A certain paradox is that with various challenges to the economy, the unemployment rate usually grows, but now instead we see the opposite process - the unemployment rate is declining at a record high, ”Bogdevich emphasized..

Earlier, in an interview with ZN. UA, an expert in the field of migration policy Andrey Gaydutsky said that the longer our refugees live abroad, the higher the risk that they will not return home.

Although the Ukrainian economy after the war will need workers more than ever. And the restoration of Ukraine without a sufficient number of workers, even if there is money, is impossible. In his opinion, in our realities, we should focus on attracting migrants from post-Soviet countries.

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