A survey of employed Ukrainians in Poland shows that 74.5% of them send funds to their relatives in Ukraine. A third of the respondents (35.4%) answered that they sent home more than half of their earnings, another 39.1% - less than half.

10.9% do not send anything, but 14.6% of respondents moved their families to their place in Poland, and the need for transfers disappeared, according to the analytical center of the international employment agency Gremi Personal.

The survey involved 1,550 Ukrainians who have been legally working in Poland since the beginning of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine.

Remittances from Ukrainian workers are one of the largest items of foreign currency inflow into the Ukrainian economy. According to the NBU, $4.3 billion was transferred from Poland to Ukraine in three quarters of 2021.

Almost $6.5 billion was transferred to Ukraine in the first six months of 2022, which is 6.2% less than in the same period last year. Incomes of Ukrainians fell by more than a third due to the exchange rate. However, the ban on men traveling abroad during the war in Ukraine pushed women to go to work in European countries..

“We predict an increase in wages in Poland in the fall and we are convinced that this will certainly become an impetus for larger transfers in order to support our relatives and the economy of Ukraine as a whole,” says Anna Dzhobolda, director of the Gremi Personal recruitment department..

Now the average salary for working specialties, which are mainly occupied by Ukrainians, is 28-32 thousand hryvnia per month (this is 3.5-4 thousand zlotys).

The agency adds that it is not worth waiting for the collapse of foreign exchange transfers to Ukraine due to the inability of men to go to work. After all, a lot of women have already been employed in Europe this year, so they largely compensate for this shortcoming..

For the first six months, 1 million 234.7 thousand Ukrainian refugees received the status of temporary protection in Poland. Of these, 372 thousand were officially employed, according to data from the Ministry of Family and Social Policy of the Republic of Poland and the UNHCR.

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The longer our refugees live abroad, the greater the risk that they will not return home. At the same time, 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.

How to bring Ukrainians home? What should be a balanced migration policy of Ukraine? Do we need to attract migrants from other countries? Read in Yulia Samaeva’s interview with Andriy Gaydutsky, an expert in the field of migration policy, “How to return people to Ukraine” and “30% of those who left for Poland after February 24 are already working there”.