In 2010, it will be easier to find a job in small towns than in big cities, shows a report by the Polish Employers Confederation. 

In towns inhabited by fewer than 5,000 people as many as 64 percent of companies do not plan redundancies in 2010 and 36 percent want to employ more people.

In bigger towns - with 10,000 inhabitants – 30 percent of companies intend to hire new employees, 4 percent will make their employees redundant and the rest do not announce changes in employment.

The worst situation on the labour market is expected in big cities, where 30 percent of companies want to make redundancies but just 26 percent want to employ new people.  

The report shows that employment trends in Poland have changed since the climax of recession. In the first half of 2009 inhabitants of towns and villages migrated to big cities in search of jobs. Soon they might go back to their home towns, where 41 percent of service companies and 10 percent of production companies are willing to raise employment. 

The economic downturn this year has mostly affected young people. In 2006, 19 percent of people under 25 years old did not have a job. Currently the number of unemployed among young people has increased to 23 percent (400,000 people), which is twice the average unemployment rate in Poland (11 percent). (mg) 

Source: Metro