Poland's low unemployment rate

The jobless rate in Poland has dropped to 11.4 percent. Only a few years ago it was the highest in the EU, at 20 percent. Paweł Rożyński says this has nothing to do with government policy. "Successive administrations failed to adequately tackle joblessness. But our entry into the EU gave our economy a push, and created hundreds of thousands of jobs. More than a million Poles left the country seeking work abroad. But it's also not good for the country to have a jobless rate that is too low. The quality of services drops, too. Companies have to raise wages faster than warranted by the efficiency of work. That's how they lose to foreign competition. Now is the time to think about the next move. Perhaps the job market should be opened to Ukrainians, or Chinese?"

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