In Poland, the employment rate is growing, unlike in the EU
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According to Eurostat data, the employment rate increased significantly during the pandemic in Poland. An increase by almost two percentage points places us in second place among the European Union countries in terms of the percentage of employed persons. According to the Polish Economic Institute (PIE), a public economic think tank, greater growth was recorded only in Hungary. In Poland, employment increased by 1.9 percentage points, while in Hungary by as much as 3.4 percentage points (compared to the last quarter of 2019).
Taking into account the figures, at the end of the second quarter of 2021, almost 3 million people were working less than before the pandemic in the entire European Union.
Poland is currently ranked 13th in the EU in terms of the employment rate. At the end of the second quarter of this year, it was 75.3 percent, which is why we are overtaken not only by Western European countries but also by those from Central and Eastern Europe. The highest rates are in the Netherlands (82 percent) and Sweden (80.8 percent). `The lowest in Greece (61.2 percent) and Italy (62.0 percent). It follows that in Poland, despite the increase in employment after the pandemic, there is still a lot of room for growth, PIE analysts indicate.
