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Unemployment up to 14 percent
Unemployment in Poland rose by 0.6 percent in January, according to the latest monthly statistics released by the Central Statistical Office (GUS).
January's figures represented the worst since April 2013, although in February last year, during the typical winter rise in unemployment, the level was as high as 14.2 percent.
According to GUS, the highest rate of unemployment is in the Warmia-Masuria region of north-east Poland, where 22.4 percent of non-pensioned adults were registered as unemployed.
The lowest level of unemployment is in the west-central Wielkopolska province, where 10 percent were listed as without work. Mazovia, which includes Warsaw, was second best at 11.4 percent.
In total, over 2.26 Poles were registered as unemployed at the close of January 2014. (nh)
Half a million leave Poland in 2013
A leading demographer has estimated that up to 500,000 Poles emmigrated in 2013, as Poland's population shrinks still further since it joined the EU in 2004.
“Official statistics point towards what has been another huge wave of immigration,” affirmed Professor Krystyna Iglicka from Warsaw's Lazarski University.
“According to German data, some 200,000 Poles moved there last year. A similar number of our compatriots also went to the UK.
“Large groups have also started to seek their fortune in Norway and the Netherlands,” she added.
Professor Iglicka noted that a significant proportion of the immigrants are those joining family members who have already settled abroad.
If Iglicka's estimates are correct, it would mean that about 2.6 million Polish citizens currently live abroad, with the first major wave of immigration occurring after Poland joined the EU in 2004.
In 2013, about 2.1 people in Poland were registered as unemployed.
Agnieszka Zerek, who runs the Legalis legal advice office for Poles in the UK, says her clients generally find life easier in the UK than in Poland.
“It's easier to get a job, it's easier to maintain a family, it's easier to put money aside and save something,” she said. (nh)
Unemployment in Poland rose by 0.6 percent in January, according to the latest monthly statistics released by the Central Statistical Office (GUS).
January's figures represented the worst since April 2013, although in February last year, during the typical winter rise in unemployment, the level was as high as 14.2 percent.
According to GUS, the highest rate of unemployment is in the Warmia-Masuria region of north-east Poland, where 22.4 percent of non-pensioned adults were registered as unemployed.
The lowest level of unemployment is in the west-central Wielkopolska province, where 10 percent were listed as without work. Mazovia, which includes Warsaw, was second best at 11.4 percent.
In total, over 2.26 Poles were registered as unemployed at the close of January 2014. (nh)
Half a million leave Poland in 2013
A leading demographer has estimated that up to 500,000 Poles emmigrated in 2013, as Poland's population shrinks still further since it joined the EU in 2004.
“Official statistics point towards what has been another huge wave of immigration,” affirmed Professor Krystyna Iglicka from Warsaw's Lazarski University.
“According to German data, some 200,000 Poles moved there last year. A similar number of our compatriots also went to the UK.
“Large groups have also started to seek their fortune in Norway and the Netherlands,” she added.
Professor Iglicka noted that a significant proportion of the immigrants are those joining family members who have already settled abroad.
If Iglicka's estimates are correct, it would mean that about 2.6 million Polish citizens currently live abroad, with the first major wave of immigration occurring after Poland joined the EU in 2004.
In 2013, about 2.1 people in Poland were registered as unemployed.
Agnieszka Zerek, who runs the Legalis legal advice office for Poles in the UK, says her clients generally find life easier in the UK than in Poland.
“It's easier to get a job, it's easier to maintain a family, it's easier to put money aside and save something,” she said. (nh)
