IMMIGRATION OF THE UKRAINIAN EMPLOYEES TO POLAND – DYNAMICS AND SPECIFICITY OF PODKAPRACKIE LABOUR MARKET CHANGES

Abstract

In 2013-2017 Polish labour market was characterized by an intensive growth of the amount of declarations on entrusting work to a foreigner (filed by the employers) and work permits issued by Voivodes. Over 95% of all declarations registered in poviat labour offices and around 80% of all work permits, refered to Ukrainian workers. One of the voivodeships with the largest inflow of workforce from Ukraine was Podkaprackie Voivodeship. The aim of this study is to present the selected issues refer to dynamics and specificity of the Podkaprackie labour market changes caused by the mentioned Ukrainian workers inflow. Not only the dynamics of changes were analyzed, but also the efforts were made to examine in which sectors and groups of employees, the Ukrainians are employed and what is their correlation with the demand of the Podkarpackie labour market. The regional level situation analysis was presented on the analogous considerations in coutrywide background. The methods of desk research and statistical-descriptive analysis were used in this article. The statistical data used in this study are based on the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy database and show the effect of implementation of the Act of 20th April 2004 on the promotion of employment and labour market institutions (Journal of Laws of 2017, item 1065) by public administration bodies. They include the number of declarations on entrusting work to a foreigner and work permits registred in 2011-2017 in Poland and Podkarpackie Voivodeship. The analysis of empirical data was placed in the theory of the dual labour market and push-pull concept.