Word: polese
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The positions migrants are filling, economists say, are either ones that locals don't want or new positions altogether. In fact, the infusion of educated labor drove growth in host countries' most dynamic sectors. Izabela Chudzicka, 26, arrived with a diploma in economics and now stars in her own Polish...
Nor are there significant indications of all this slowing down. Budget flights from Poland are still full of young people ready to sample a new life. In addition to Chudzicka's TV show, Ireland alone boasts six Polish newspapers, two radio programs and at least a dozen Polish websites. Poles...
It's a similar picture across the Irish Sea. A report this year from the Von Hügel Institute in Cambridge suggested that, with the influx of East Europeans, Catholicism could soon be the dominant religion in Britain, which hasn't been the case since, oh, 1550. Construction on the...
Indeed, if there is one characteristic that distinguishes Poles, whether they are wielding a wrench or a stethoscope, it's a capacity for work--at least, that's what many employers say. Jarek Czernek, the general manager of Aluglass Ireland, a business that installs glass siding, says the 100 fellow...
A majority of expatriate Poles expect to go home within two years--if they can. True, Poland's economy is growing at a healthy 5.9% clip, but its unemployment rate, at 15%, is the worst in the E.U. A stolid business culture does little to attract the brightest and best...