Immigration and the Labour Market in Poland

Jan Klakla and Maciej Duszczyk

No 178, mBank - CASE Seminar Proceedings from CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research

Abstract: Over the last dozen years Poland became an immigration country. The 178th mBank-CASE Seminar proceedings is devoted to this process – from various perspectives. The data speak for themselves. Immigration provides significant support for the Polish labour market. Poland is facing a rapid population decline. According to projections by the Ministry of Finance in 2022, by 2030 the population of Poland could decrease from the current 37.75 million to 36.6 million, and by 2050 to 34.1 million. The percentage of people of working age will decrease, while the elderly population will increase. Immigration may provide a solution to this problem. In 2022, around 100,000 people from Belarus arrived in Poland, most of them actively participating in the labour market. In addition, there are 1.2 million Ukrainians who stayed in Poland after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It is therefore necessary to develop a long-term immigration, education and social policy to retain immigrants and integrate them into society and the labour market. This is what eminent experts who have been researching migration processes for years write about in the first two chapters of these Notebooks: Dr Maciej Duszczyk, as well as Dr Agata Górny and Dr Paweł Kaczmarczyk, from the Centre for Migration Research, operating within the University of Warsaw. The third chapter is devoted to the situation of female domestic workers.

Keywords: country of emigration; country of immigration; migration policy; visa policy; immigrant integration; war refugees; economic migrants; labour market; domestic work sector; Poland; Ukraine (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 J15 J48 J61 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 53
Date: 2024-05-22
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