More job shortages loom as Eastern Europeans go home: ABN Amro

Many eastern Europeans in the Netherlands will leave because the economies in their home countries are growing and wages there are rising, according to a new report by ABN Amro economists. Currently some 250,000 people from Poland, Romania and Bulgaria work in the Netherlands, often doing poorly paid work on short term contracts. Now eastern European economies are growing and populations are shrinking, wages are likely to rise, encouraging more people to return home. ‘Countries like the Netherlands, which are...