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Why Poland’s Yacht Builders Are Among World Leaders

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Greaves S.

Zarządzanie Publiczne / Public Governance

2021

issue 2(56)

83-99

Objective: To demonstrate how a high-skilled competitively-priced Polish labour force, thriving amid enlightened manufacturing policies which are far from a coalition of coincidences, has created a specialist yacht-building sector – and a superyacht one with exceptional potential. Research Design & Methods: This theoretical and empirical study sets out, after defining and describing the superyacht sector by reviewing limited existing research, to apply basic quantitative methods – correlation and regression - to isolate the demand and production factors most likely to explain and ensure continued success. From limited data and previous research it produces a clear result; manufacturing nations with a strong labour market, upholding a highly-skilled, cost-competitive workforce, compared with boatyards in nascent or mature boatbuilding nations, are delivering persistent prosperity with promise of further growth. This, for the first time, weighs the comparative importance of supply-side factors that drive production and points the way for further work to understand its success. Warsaw’s support for manufacturing has quietly created ideal conditions for a niche sector to flourish, success also within reach of countries with a similar labour pool. Findings: A positive relationship between overall global fleet size and numbers of millionaires in producer countries is confirmed by correlation and then regression analyses prove three hypotheses. First, the dominant influence of competitive labour resources; second, the much lesser (though still important) role of tax policy among other factors, such as industry path dependency and education levels, which can also be expected to be key economic drivers of growth. A third, subsidiary, hypothesis also holds: that a sector with special advantages – in this case luxury products in a resilient marketplace – can outperform other manufacturing segments. The findings confirm the global superyacht market presents significant opportunities for sustained expansion and enterprise for producers like Poland. Implications/Recommendations: The EU recognises the importance of marine industries to trade and enterprise. However, to take advantage of assured superyacht market growth, policymakers need to continue to nurture a skilled labour pool with funding and training support. They could also cut corporation tax to specifically support boatbuilders, perhaps introducing a lower tier for innovating and expanding industries under Industrial Revolution 0.4 strategies. Contribution/Value Added: An in-depth examination of a specific sector with appeal to work and wealth creators worldwide, identifying a special labour market premium in Poland and previously unrecognised upside opportunities for all market participants.

Between fraternal help and economic realism. The employment of Polish workers in Czechoslovakia (1945-1950)

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Dvořák T.

Historia Slavorum Occidentis

2020

issue 4 (27)

101-131

The paper deals with the topic of the employment of the Polish workers in post- -war Czechoslovakia. Analysed are mainly the features of the Czechoslovak workforce policy with some insight into the political context of the Czechoslovak-Polish relations. Despite the tensions, the employment of Polish citizens in Czechoslovak coal mines continued after the war in line with the laws of supply and demand. The advantages of the temporary border crossing, were enjoyed and quietly tolerated by both parties. First, with the start of the five- and six-year Plans in both countries, this development conformed with the demands of the centrally directed policy for the distribution of workforce stemming from a planned economy. From its very beginning, recruitment of Polish agricultural workers represented a method employed by the government in its attempt to cope with the permanent shortage of workers in the post-war Czechoslovak labour market. Just like the other emergency measures, it was accompanied by disproportions in economic costs. The influence of political symbols which were detrimental to the economy were also among the specific attributes of this arrangements. The development in both cases reveals a change in the economic as well as political thinking on the threshold of the communist rule.

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Why Poland’s Yacht Builders Are Among World Leaders

Between fraternal help and economic realism. The employment of Polish workers in Czechoslovakia (1945-1950)