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Life in Poland is pretty great, What's the story with unemployment there these days? I read recently it was among the highest in Europe?
by rusk 9y ago
Life in Poland is pretty great,
What's the story with unemployment there these days? I read recently it was among the highest in Europe?
- nkkollaw 9y agoNope. You're probably confusing Poland with Greece. Poland's unemployment rate is about 100% better than Ireland, Italy, France, and others and almost 50% better than the EU. In big cities is perceptively non-existant among young people (my perception and my girlfriend's). Here is a chart: https://www.statista.com/statistics/268830/unemployment-rate-in-eu-countries/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/268830/unemployment-rate...
- rusk 9y agoOkay my bad. Hard to separate truth from fiction with everything that comes across in the media these days.
- the_mitsuhiko 9y agoWell it's not really surprising. People have been emigrating from Poland for a long time. This eventually has to show up in low unemployment numbers.
- rusk 9y agoI thought that too, but when I looked at the numbers they're far from having the highest level of emigration [0] in Europe either, at 11.5% ... [0] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DSts9UUW0AAKmXd.jpg:large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DSts9UUW0AAKmXd.jpg:large