Assessment of the Labour Market During the COVID-19 Pandemic

• Authors: Anna Borucka , Marta Chapska , Ewa Żaboklicka , Rafał Parczewski

Abstracts

EN

The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted governments to take radical measures to contain the virus and protect their citizens. These included successive restrictions on social distance, which have led to closing many enterprises in various industries and dismissing their employees. Introducing restrictions has significantly weakened many countries’ economies. Stock markets have noted sharp declines. Therefore, public protection has led to severe consequences for the labour market. Attempts at defining them have been undertaken in the body of literature. However, they focus mainly on analysing selected indicators. According to the authors, it is worth analysing the correlation between the number of deaths as the variable that best reflects the disease’s severity and selected unemployment rates. It was assumed that the number of deaths is a factor significantly distinguishing the periods before and after the pandemic. Therefore, it is possible to assess the correlation between the pandemic and the labour market condition.

Keywords

EN

labour market; COVID-19 pandemic; deaths; unemployment; Poland

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Polish Political Science Yearbook
• Year: 2023
• Issue: 1(52)
• Pages: 149-164

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Anna Borucka

• Military University of Technology (Poland)

• https://orcid.org/0000000278929640

author

Marta Chapska

• Military University of Technology (Poland)

• https://orcid.org/0000000318028602

author

Ewa Żaboklicka

• Military University of Technology (Poland)

• https://orcid.org/0000000247116567

author

Rafał Parczewski

• Military University of Technology (Poland)

• https://orcid.org/0000000226030596

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/ppsy202236

Biblioteka Nauki

2197899