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The labor market in Poland : 2000-2021 : employment has been rising, but disadvantaged groups and low participation of older people pose challenges
Lewandowski, Piotr; Magda, Iga - 2023
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. …
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The changing nature of jobs in Central and Eastern Europe : restructuring and upskilling prevents job polarization but may leave countries vulnerable to routine-biased technical ch...
Lewandowski, Piotr - 2017
Job polarization can pose serious problems for emerging economies that rely on worker reallocation from low-skilled to middle-skilled jobs to converge toward advanced economies. Evidence from Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries shows that structural change and education expansion can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011634488
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The labor market in Poland, 2000−2016 : employment has been rising, but low participation of older people and a large share of temporary jobs pose challenges
Lewandowski, Piotr; Magda, Iga - 2018
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 has dropped to 5%. However, most of the net job creation has consisted of temporary jobs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798224