ANALYSIS OF EXPENDITURES ON LABOR MARKET POLICY IN POLAND DURING THE YEARS 1990-2008

• Authors: Cicha Marlena
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Labor market policy implemented within the frameworks of active and passive programs financed from the Labor Fund is an element of the Polish model of combating unemployment. The role of these programs represents activation of the unemployed, promotion of employment and mitigating activities. High implementation costs of that policy, however, cause that for years it has been the subject of fierce critique that frequently questions the sense of its application. The fundamental problem that appears in the analysis of the role of those programs is the share of the expenditures on active forms of preventing unemployment in the total expenditures involved in implementation of that policy. The Labor Fund, since the beginning of its functioning, has been considered to be mainly a passive funds serving generally the mitigation measures for the unemployed. For 19 years they consumed { of the funds allocated for implementation of all the measures. Only during the last 4 years the evolution in the approach to implementation of the labor market programs and changes in the structure of expenditures for the purpose could be observed. That is why it seems that presentation of the level and structure of expenditures from the Labor Fund since the beginning of its operation (1990-2008) is useful to present the changes that take place in both the level and the structure of Labor Fund expenditures for active and passive labor market programs. Additionally, presentation of the correlation between the changes in the expenditures of the Labor Fund and the level of unemployment seems interesting.

Keywords

EN

ACTIVE INSTRUMENTS OF THE LABOR MARKET; LABOR FUND; LABOR MARKET POLICY

Discipline

• ECONOMICS: ECONOMICS

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
• Journal: Olsztyn Economic Journal
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 124-134
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Cicha Marlena

• Marlena Cicha, Chair of Social Policy, University of Warmia and Mazury, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11PLAAAA091327