Celem opracowania jest analiza zmian na rynku pracy w powiecie ostrowieckim w okresie przejścia od systemu gospodarki centralnie planowanej do pełnej gospodarki rynkowej. Badany powiat tworzy w strukturze przestrzenno-ekonomicznej województwa świętokrzyskiego wyraźnie domknięty rynek pracy, rozumiany jako obszar posiadający określoną liczbę miejsc pracy dostępnych bez zmiany miejsca zamieszkania.
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Changes of employment in the Ostrowiecki poviat resulted from general market mechanisms and impacts of local and national authorities. Tendencies of these changes are related to the tendencies observed on voivodship and national labour market. Analyses of changes of non-agricultural employment in the poviat confirm a domination of main centre - Ostrowiec Świetokrzyski. Changes observed on labour market in the mentioned above city decide about changes in the poviat. Negative phenomena that was observing after 1989 is a permanent and systematic-decrease of employment about 4 procent annually. In the structure of cconomv any positive change was not observed. However, decrease of share in employment of branches as industry and construction was notices, but simultaneously decrease of share in employment in services branch: trade, transport and communication was also noticed. Changes concerning a property sector after 1994 confirm a growth of number of private enterprises and permanent decrease of employment in public sector. An advantageous phenomenon is an enterprise privatisation. Positive change in economy of the poviat is an affluence of representatives of foreign investors, including trade, service, as well as production enterprises. Some functional changes were observed in particular gminas of the Ostrowiecki poviat. Centres with domination of industry function, which in 1988 focused about 90,4 procent employed persons was presently decayed. Currently, trade and service centres play the most meaning in the structure of poviat employment (88,7 procent employed persons).(original abstract)