Monitoring of poverty indexes and structure of household expenditures is one of diagnostic and warning tool for social politics. Well-being or poverty of selected households’ groups can be illustrated not only by mentioned categories, but also by possession of consumer durables. Thus, there is...

The paper aims at assessing selected approaches to measuring effectiveness of tertiary education and their applicability. The applied methods, among others, include classical methods (ANOVA, Mincerian earnings function, correspondence analysis, hierarchical agglomerative clustering), as well as...

During the last few years the Polish job and labor market has been improving significantly. Both, the number of unemployed and the unemployment rate have dropped, and employment has increased in Poland. Despite these positive trends, unemployment is still one of the most crucial social challenge...

The Ministry of Science and Higher Education has launched the Competency Development Programme in the form of additional financial means for activities to equip students with unique, the so-called soft skills necessary in scientific careers and on the labour market. Courses developing skills...

The human capital development programs, partly financed by the means of European Social Fund, result in activities with the goal to equip students with skills not offered in traditional education and training system. Especially unique, so called soft skills seems to be necessary in contemporary...

The aim of the research is to apply the results of fuzzy measurement of consumer preferences on durable goods market for customer segmentation. New phenomena on durable goods market manifest itself in consumer behaviour. As a result, the brand acts as the most important feature while purchasing...