ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL PROFILE OF SEASONAL WORKERS FROM THE PODLASKIE PROVINCE WORKING IN GERMANY (Ekonomiczno-spoleczny profil podlaskich pracowników sezonowych pracujacych w Niemczech)

• Authors: Sulima Elzbieta
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Seasonal emigration is a common earning form among the Poles in the European labour market. Despite the fact that new labour markets are being open for the new member countries of the European Union, the interest in work in Germany is not less than it used to be. Therefore, the authoress wanted to determine demographic and social characteristics of seasonal workers leaving the Podlaskie Province for Germany and the effects of their decision. The research involves the comparative analysis, however the comparison is made with the results of another research relating to seasonal workers going to Germany which was carried out in a different period and place. The aim of this paper is to define a profile of a seasonal worker leaving the Podlaskie Province for Germany and determine the reasons for their decisions and the effects of seasonal working travels. The research carried out was aimed at the determination of demographic and social features of the workers (their age, sex, education, place of residence, vocational status), reasons for travels and the frequency of travels, earlier interest in the travels, appropriateness of seasonal work to their qualifications, migration forecast understood as a tendency to migration, characteristics of economic results, non-economic results of working abroad with the division into: positive and negative results as well as measurable costs of the travels. On the basis of the data collected during the research, a profile of a worker leaving the Podlaskie Province for Germany can be drawn. This is an unemployed man (not registered in an unemployment office) at the age of 30-34, married, with post-secondary school or vocational secondary school educational background who lives in the country.

Keywords

EN

SEASONAL MIGRATIONS; SEASONAL WORK IN GERMANY; SEASONAL WORKER; SEASONAL WORKER'S PROFILE

Discipline

• ECONOMICS: ECONOMICS

• Journal: Optimum. Studia Ekonomiczne
• Year: 2009
• Issue: 2(24)
• Pages: 126-142
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Sulima Elzbieta

• Elzbieta Sulima, Uniwersytet w Bialymstoku, Wydzial Ekonomii i Zarzadzania, ul. Warszawska 63, 15-062 Bialystok, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA07028