Britain’s Poles now earn more than the natives
Possibly because the least successful migrants have left
Pawel labaj moved from Poland to Britain in 2005, one year after the country opened its labour market to eastern Europeans. He found work as a cleaner, then in a warehouse. Today, after “a lot of sweat and commitment”, he is a manager at Echo Personnel, which places workers in the sort of manual jobs that he used to do.
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