One in nine interviewees (11%) declare that after 1 May 2004 they worked abroad and one in a hundred (1%) that they still work outside Poland. For obvious reasons migrants who work and live abroad are not included.

Germany is still the most popular destination for economic migrants. In that country worked over a half of interviewees who experienced economic migration in the last ten years. One in four (26%) worked in the United Kingdom which was one of the first countries opening their labour market for Polish migrants after 2004 EU enlargement. Important economic migrants’ destinations are also the Benelux countries. One in ten (10%) worked in Netherlands and similar number found occupation in Belgium (9%).

More on that issue can be found in the CBOS report in Polish: “Post-Accession Labour Migration“.