Wages have been rising by 16 percent year on year, while inflation has slowed to 4.1 percent. “They are beginning to feel as though their labour market has been drained,” according to Andrzej Kubisiak, a labour market expert at the Polish Economic Institute, a think tank. With falling unemployment, now at 9.3 percent, Ukrainian firms are seeking workers. More worryingly for Polish firms, Ukraine’s economy is bouncing back, with real growth at 3 percent in 2019, according to International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecasts. Yet while interest in Germany is growing, significant barriers for Ukrainian workers could slow the outflow. On March 1, Germany loosened its immigration rules to attract skilled workers from outside the EU. Yet now some fear that the tide could turn. Ukrainians have been crucial to plugging the labour gap as Poland faced its lowest unemployment in almost 30 years last year. Since then they have created 11 percent of Poland’s gross domestic product or GDP growth, according to the National Bank of Poland. Many escaped their fledgeling economy and the war in Ukraine’s east. Nearly two million Ukrainian migrants have arrived in Poland since 2014. The worry now is that they could turn back, or move on to Germany. In 2018 it took in more workers from outside the European Union than any other country – mostly from Ukraine. Warsaw, Poland – In recent years Poland has overseen one of the largest waves of migration in Europe.
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