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4.4 ​Labour and income
4.4.1​ Labour market, unemployment dynamics
Source: ICU
Unemployment rate (%)
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 EFF
6.4 6.4 8.8 8.1 7.9 7.5 7.2 9.3 9.1 9.3 9.4 9.3 8.8
The flow of Ukrainian workers back into Poland rose to 94,000, nearly triple the 34,000 recorded in April​ by Poland’s border guards, reports the Warsaw daily Rzeczpospolita. Krzysztof Inglot, head of the Personnel Service employment agency, estimates that as many as 400,000 Ukrainians left Poland in March, when the coronavirus threat first loomed. On Monday, Polish ambassador Bartosz Cichocki agreed in Kyiv with Ukraine's Deputy Foreign Minister Vasyl Bodnar to simplify procedures for Ukrainians to obtain work permits and to cross the border.
In the three years since the visa-free regime started, on June 11, 2017, Ukrainians have made almost 50mn trips to the EU​, reports Ukraine’s State Border Service. With the explosion in discount air links, air became the most popular form of travel. Travel to the EU grew by 6.5% y/y, to 18.65mn. During the first two months of this year, travel was up 30%, to 3mn. Last year, nearly 1mn Ukrainians traveled to the EU by rail, with Ukrzaliznytsia maintaining 20 trains into the EU.
31​ UKRAINE Country Report​ July 2020 ​ ​www.intellinews.com