This paper presents the results of a case study of local economic development in Dolina Strugu, Podkarpackie voivodship, Poland. Its aim is to analyse local development problems and chances, to investigate the potential of endogenous initiatives to support economic development, and to examine...

Since the beginning of the 1990s, the gap in economic development between rural and urban regions in Poland has continuously grown. Increasing income disparities and the lack of job opportunities have already led to an outflow of young people out of and an increasing obsolescence in rural areas....

This documentation summarises the technical information about the Poland farm survey 2000. This survey was recently carried out in co-operation with Polish partners by the Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO) in Halle (Saale), Germany. The topics covered in...

In this paper, the labour supply of married women in Poland is studied using the Polish Labour Force Survey of February 1993 on three competing econometric models, viz. Tobit, Three Regime Tobit and Heckit. It is shown that the choice of model has an influence on conclusions drawn. In...

We analyse the duration of unemployment spells in Poland using data from the Polish Labour Force Survey of August 1994. The effects on the duration of unemployment of important socio-economic and demographic characteristics are explored besides the impacts of the unemployment benefit system and...