In the early 2000s, Poland's unemployment rate reached 20%. That is now a distant memory, as employment has increased … noticeably and the unemployment rate had dropped to 3.4% in 2021. The labor force participation of older workers increased … underemployed. During the Covid-19 pandemic the slowdown in economic growth and increase in unemployment were small. …

search requirements for older unemployed workers aims to increase their re-employment rates. Abolishing the exemption from … job search requirements for the older unemployed has been shown to initiate higher outflow rates from unemployment for …