For fifty years, the Poland had gradually left its statute of Nation without industrial tradition and become a modern European country. Considerable efforts were in particular carried out in the field of education and the professional training. The level of the Polish labour force is today in the European average, even above in the technical fields, communication and information technologies.

The Polish labour force is one of the youngest in Europe. With the 35 % of the population of less than 25 years, more than ten million young people will return on the labour market in the twenty next years.

The Poles have certain qualities, which one does not find in the other central and eastern european countries. There is not a doubt that the Poles are courageous and undertaking, like illustrates it the quotation of Joseph Conrad (Józef Korzeniowski): "Only work enables us to be discovered in our own eyes, to show what one is and not only what one appears". This entrepreneurship is coupled with an analytical and sharp spirit of imagination and smartness like with a strong capacity of amendment to all the situations.

In spite of this gravitational profile, one hour of the total cost of the labour force rises in Poland only to 3 EUR, that is approximately four times less than in Spain and seven times less than in Germany. This low cost should not however be regarded like an advantage, but rather as an indicator of the limited competitiveness of the Polish labour.

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