In this paper we analyze the evolution and the determinants of in-work poverty in Poland, according to three poverty lines: relative, absolute, and the 1998-adjusted poverty line. We find that behind moderately high in-work poverty incidence in Poland there is very high in-work poverty in...

In this edition we address the issue of work across the lifespan which, in the face of the ongoing demographic changes and population ageing, is a key problem for the future of Poland and Europe. We discuss the impact of demographic changes on the labour market and examine what policy...

The report ‘Employment in Poland 2009 – Entrepreneurship for Work’ is the fi fth edition of the Employment in Poland series, a thorough study of the most significant processes occurring in the Polish and European labour markets. We hope that, as with previous editions, it will be an...

This report consists of four parts. In the first part, we look at the Polish economy from the macroeconomic point of view and analyse the labour markets in eight – out of ten – states which joined the European Union in May 2004. In this venture, we focus on identifying those aggregate...

This edition of Employment in Poland is devoted to the analysis of the impact of the 2007-2009 global financial crisis (the so called Great Recession) on the labour market, and of the public finance and public debt crisis, which constitutes the direct consequence of a recession in some of the...

This Report is a third in the series Employment in Poland. Its subtitle, which reads Security on a flexible labour market, is a reflection of one of the key dilemmas in social and economic policy, namely the necessity to reconcile the development of effective economic structures that react in a...

It is with great pleasure that we present the seventh edition of ‘Employment in Poland’. This edition is devoted to the issue of poverty. Growth of prosperity is not distributed evenly among the Polish citizens, and some of them still cannot satisfy even basic needs. The improvement of an...

This edition, entitled Labour in The Age of Structural Change, is devoted to the assessment of structural changes in Poland and otherEU and OECD countries, and their impact on the labour markets. The report is divided into four parts. The first part of the report entitled Labour Demand and the...

Employment in Poland 2010 – integration and globalisation is the sixth edition of the ‘Employment in Poland’ series. Similar to previous editions, we focus on selected processes that infl uence the Polish and European labour markets. This time we focus on European integration, understood...

The report discusses the phenomenon of dual labour market, which in Poland involves abuse of the possibility to hire employees under civil law contracts. The report also proposes solutions aimed at curbing this phenomenon. We propose introducing a so-called single contract, adapted to the Polish...