The paper focuses on different aspects of the training funds in the context of changes that were implemented in Poland in 2014, and launching the National Training Fund. The paper elaborates on the characteristics and typology of the training fund as an instrument to support lifelong learning, presents examples of selected training funds in the European Union, and outlines the evolution of the Polish regulations related to training fund between 2004 and 2015. In particular, papers discusses the building blocks of the National Training Fund, emphasizing its elements that will be of great importance to its effective utilization in the future.
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Artykuł poświęcony jest problematyce funduszy szkoleniowych w kontekście zmian, jakie wprowadzono w Polsce w 2014 r. w tym instrumencie, powołując do życia Krajowy Fundusz Szkoleniowy. W artykule przedstawiono charakterystykę i typologię funduszu szkoleniowego jako instrumentu wsparcia kształcenia ustawicznego, omówiono przykłady wybranych funduszy szkoleniowych w krajach Unii Europejskiej, by następnie przedstawić ewolucję polskich rozwiązań w latach 2004–2015. W szczególności skupiono się na konstrukcji Krajowego Funduszu Szkoleniowego, wskazując na elementy, które będą warunkowały jego efektywne wykorzystanie w przyszłości.
The aim of the paper is to presents results of the research study carried out in three Polish voivodships: kujawsko-pomorskie, lodzkie and wielkopolskie. The goal of the this study was to identify the needs and expectations of employers in the area of cooperation with Voluntary Labour Corps. The paper is divided into three main parts. First one focuses on employers’ skills demand. Second one elaborates on cooperation between VLC and employers, while the third one presents employers’ postulates towards VLC, which should lead to more effective cooperation. In the summary main conclusions and recommendations, stemming from research study, are presented.
This paper focuses on the relationship between Information and Communication Technologies, GDP growth and productivity in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. It elaborates on measures of the digital economy/information society, emphasizing the role of complementary factors to ICT that are crucial for the productive use of these General Purpose Technologies. The paper discusses the impact of technical progress, induced by the development of ICT, on sources of economic growth by describing changes in the contribution of ICT capital and non-ICT capital, labour and TFP to GDP growth in the CEE and EU-15 countries.
The following study raises the question of an inverse relationship between inflation and unemployment, which constitutes a crucial issue connected with conducting economic policy of a country, particularly monetary policy. The concept of the Philips curve, which describes this relationship, has evolved considerably over the last forty five years. As a result of this evolution, the model of the Phillips curve has been expanded to encompass expectations as well, which in turn has led to the development of the NAIRU theory. On the basis of this theory it is possible to determine the real cost of disinflation in relation to the level of unemployment. The research results connected with the Philips curve and NAIRU in Poland which have been presented in the study show that there exists a considerable difficulty connected with estimating the parameters of the Phillips curve and, as a consequence, with the value of NAIRU. The reasons for these problems can be associated with the violent changes occurring in the Polish economy, particularly in the first half of the 1990s. In this connection, the attempts o f determining NAIRU are mainly based on the statistical data coming from the later period. The value of NAIRU in Poland in the years 1995-2002 is estimated at 12-16% - which is a level commonly regarded as high. Due to the limitations presented above an unequivocal evaluation of monetary policy based on the NAIRU theory seems to be impossible.
The paper discusses the nature of technical change in the Polish labour market, referring to two dominant hypotheses: Skill-Biased Technical Change and Routinisation-Biased Technical Change. The goal of the study is to test the hypothesis of the polarisation of the Polish labour market. The empirical analysis revealed that the Polish labour market does not follow the typical polarisation path identified in developed countries. It appeared that the biggest decline in labour demand has not been observed in the middle of skills/wage distribution. Technical change has led to skills upgrading, however, employment and wages in the group of low-skilled workers have not deteriorated much. Moreover, major changes in the task content of jobs have occurred in Poland. These changes are consistent with patterns of the developed countries with the exception of routine cognitive tasks, for which demand has increased in the last decade. The results of the analysis are ambiguous – shifts in the structure of employment and wages in Poland seem to be stuck between scenarios offered by SBTC and RBTC hypotheses.
The paper discusses the role of Information and Communication Technologies for labour productivity in the Central and Eastern European countries, taking into account the consequences of the latest global economic crisis. It focuses on the factors (ICT complementarities) influencing the ICT diffusion trajectories, and thus having impact on labour productivity. The fixed effects models and least squares dummy variable (LSDV) regression was implemented with the use of panel data for 21 European Union member countries. The analysis revealed that only some complementary factors to ICT investments appeared significant to affect labour productivity in the CEE Region. It also showed that sources of labour productivity are sensitive to cyclical changes in the economy.
Celem artykułu jest usystematyzowanie wiedzy na temat specyfiki i struktury ofert pracy dostępnych w Internecie przez pryzmat oceny skali nierównowagi polskiego rynku pracy. Dane do analiz pochodzą z CBOP oraz autorskiego Systemu Internetowych Ofert Pracy (SIOP) opracowanego przez Instytut Pracy i Spraw Socjalnych i obejmują lata 2017–2018. Artykuł omawia aktualne trendy występujące na polskim rynku pracy. Przedstawia charakterystykę ofert pracy dostępnych w zasobach publicznych służb zatrudnienia (PSZ), a także internetowych ofert pracy zgromadzonych w SIOP. Wnioski z analiz wskazują na występowanie nierównowagi o charakterze niedoboru podaży, a także zmiany strategii rekrutacyjnych przedsiębiorstw, które coraz częściej sięgają po usługę pośrednictwa pracy świadczoną przez publiczne służby zatrudnienia.
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The goal of the paper is to systematise knowledge about the characteristics and structure of online job offers in the light of the scale of the imbalance of the Polish labour market. The analysis is based on data from CBOP and the System of Online Job Offers (SIOP) developed by the Institute of Labour and Social Studies and covers the years 2017–2018. The paper discusses actual trends on the Polish labour market. It presents the characteristics of job offers available in public resources of employment services as well as online job offers collected in SIOP. The conclusions point to the existence of supply-side disequilibrium on the Polish labour market as well as significant changes in the enterprises’ recruitment strategies that are more and more interested in the job placment service provided by PES.
W opracowaniu skoncentrowano się na zmianach w strukturze zawodowej i kwalifikacyj-nejna rynku pracy w Polsce. Wskazano także na ich przyczyny: zarówno zmianę techno-logiczną będącą pochodną postępu technicznego, wzrost ogólnego poziomu wykształcenia zasobów pracy, jak również reformy instytucjonalne, odnosząc się w szczególności do hipotezy polaryzacji rynku pracy. Następnie przedstawiono spodziewane zmiany w struk-turze zawodowej do 2022 roku, które zostały oparte na prognozie zatrudnienia według grup zawodów. Na tej podstawie zidentyfikowano wyzwania i możliwe napięcia, które mogą mieć miejsce w niektórych segmentach polskiego rynku pracy, a które wynikajązniedopasowania popytu i podaży w wymiarze kwalifikacyjno-zawodowym.
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The paper elaborates on changes in the employment structure by occupations and skills in Poland. It discusses drivers of these shifts — technical change, educational upgrading and institutional reforms — focusing on labour market polarisation hypothesis. Future deve-lopments on labour demand, based on the employment forecast by occupational groups till 2022, are presented. The papers concludes with possible challenges and tensions which may affect some segments of the Polish labour market, being a result of skills mismatch.
The study presents an analysis of the evolution and effects of labour market policy in the interwar period and after the economic transition in Poland. Labour market policy was created from scratch in 1918–1939. A similar situation took place after 1989, as labour market policy was practically non-existent during the period of centrallyplanned economy. There has been a perceptible change in the policy priorities in recent years – it has shifted from income-protection measures to active instruments, which should be assessed positively. Nevertheless, it seems that the capacity of labour market policy in Poland has not been fully utilized, hence the postulate of further reforms in order to increase the effectiveness of its impact was presented.
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