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300,000 Poles alone (and another 100,000 in Ireland). Latvian officials think at
least 50,000 people, or 2% of the population, have gone abroad to work; Lithuania
estimates more than 100,000, or 3%.
These departures leave labour-thirsty industries such as construction and
retailing short of workers at home. Either they must import labour from farther
east, or they must raise wages. Some poor rural regions are visibly depopulated,
with so many adults gone that children and old folk feel abandoned.
Yet most of the moans are overdone. For a start, the era of migration is
likely to be temporary. “We have ten years before the demographics kick in,” says
Mr Mansoor, “after which there just won't be the young people to emigrate.” That
is not wholly good news: most central and east European countries face the nasty
combination of a rich-country age structure with a poor-country economy. But it
highlights the biggest cause of migration now: a big pool of unemployed,
underpaid or under-appreciated people for whom going abroad makes a lot of
sense. (“The Brain-Drain Cycle”, The Economist, December 8
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2005)
