Poland with lowest vacancy rate in entire EU
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Polish employers were not looking for new employees before the Covid-19 pandemic began. The vacancy rate in the first quarter of 2020 in Poland was the lowest among all European Union countries and amounted to only 0.6 percent. The EU average was 1.9 percent.
Why is that important? This indicator illustrates what percentage of all jobs in a given economy are those on which employers actually want to hire someone in the near future. In Poland, this ratio in the first quarter was the lowest in the entire EU.
This is a worrying result, because it means that, compared to other EU Member States, we have the fewest vacancies that are waiting for the unemployed.
By far the most vacancies compared to all jobs in the economy are in the Czech Republic (5.7 percent), which is interesting because in January 2020 this country also had the lowest unemployment rate in the entire European Community (2 percent),
