In Germany, there has been a significant increase in the employment rate among Ukrainian refugees over the past three years. While in the summer of 2022 only 16% of Ukrainians who were forced to leave the country due to the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation were employed, today this figure has reached 51%.
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Increased Job Satisfaction Among Ukrainians
The level of job satisfaction among Ukrainian citizens who have found refuge in Germany has also noticeably improved. In 2023, among respondents aged 20 to 50, 87% reported being “satisfied” or “very satisfied” with their jobs, and this figure has now risen to 94%. A significant number of Ukrainians were able to find work after completing integration and language courses.
“Many have managed to find work after completing integration and language courses,” said Andreas Ette, the head of the study at the Federal Institute for Demographic Research.
Trends in the Migration of Young Men from Ukraine
At the same time, there is a growing discontent in Germany regarding the increasing number of young men arriving from Ukraine. After Ukraine allowed men aged 18 to 22 to leave the country, the number of applications for temporary protection of type S significantly increased, particularly in Switzerland. Over a few weeks, the number of applications rose from 3 at the end of August to 185 in mid-October, accounting for one-third of all new applications. However, according to the latest data, the situation is gradually stabilizing.
Similar trends are observed in Poland. Here, the number of young Ukrainians aged 18–22 who arrived in the country increased from 19 individuals per week in mid-August to over 1,000 in mid-September. At the same time, the Polish Border Guard noted that these figures do not account for the number of citizens who returned to Ukraine, nor that the same individual may have crossed the border multiple times. Therefore, the actual number of those who left and did not return may be almost half of the reported figures.