English Abstract: Growth in the European Union since the outbreak of the global financial crisis is slower (1) than before the crisis, (2) than the trend would indicate, (3) than forecast and (4) than in the United States. The factors driving its weakness lie more on the supply side than the...

Polish Abstract: W artykule zaprezentowano teoretyczne i empiryczne zagadnienia dotyczące roli menedżera w procesie zarządzania zmianą w przedsiębiorstwie, wychodząc z założenia, że większość współczesnych przedsiębiorstw przechodzi permanentne przeob− rażenia związane z...

Revised: 2006-05.-- Published as an article in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, vol. 18, issue 1, pp. 165-179.

In this paper an alternative view of the relation between the wage level, wage dispersion, training incentives and employment is presented. We provide some theoretical arguments which cast doubt on the standard thesis that unemployment - especially in Germany - is mainly caused by labor market...