"Disability insurance - the insurance against the loss of the ability to work - is a substantial part of social security expenditures in many countries. The benefit recipiency rates in disability insurance vary strikingly across European countries and the US. This paper investigates the extent...

"Disability insurance - the insurance against the loss of the ability to work - is a substantial part of social security expenditures in many countries. The benefit recipiency rates in disability insurance vary strikingly across European countries and the US. This paper investigates the extent...

"The paper analyses the directions of inter-regional migration in Poland in the years 1995-2002 and points out some major factors that cause the migration. The analyses indicate the voivodships with the largest net migration flows (Mazowieckie, Pomorskie) are characterized by high relative GDP...

"The article describes (concentrates on the description of) the employment development and social problems related to labour market situation in Poland during the transition period (before the EU accession). It consists of four parts. The first gives an overview of basic tendencies in labour...

"This article explores the process of labour market integration in the border region of Saxony, Poland and the Czech Republic. The underlying understanding of integration is combining institutional factors and the behaviour of market players. The sources of this conceptual framework stem from...

"In addition to government policies concerning the disabled and those funded by the social insurance authorities, in a considerable number of industrial countries there are special legal systems for the securing and promotion of occupational integration, which are based on the legal obligation...

"In diesem Beitrag werden Probleme der polnischen Beschäftigungspolitik diskutiert. Besonders berücksichtigt werden dabei die Ungleichgewichte des Arbeitsmarktes sowie Fehler in der polnischen Beschäftigungspolitik. Der Autor versucht mögliche Gründe für die versteckte Arbeitslosigkeit,...

"In the transformation countries of eastern central Europe, eastern Germany, Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary, the political and economic process of reform is well advanced. Eastern Germany is, as a result of the reunification, already fully integrated into the European Union,...