present a comprehensive statistical and econometric analysis of employment, unemployment and participation in Poland in the … with some policy prescriptions. At the moment Poland exhibits the highest unemployment rate in OECD and one of the lowest … increase of unemployment in 1998- 1999 and its later persistence. We find that the supply-side characteristics and sectoral …

-2005, and we assess to what extent these disturbances are responsible for different dynamics of unemployment and employment … and increase in unemployment levels in Europe, which came about in Poland after the year 2000, are due to the … employment and unemployment rates are due to the development of labour-intensive manufacturing. We argue that only the largest …

demand shocks) were of foremost importance to unemployment and employment fluctuations in the region. At the same time, we …