Globalization determines development of characteristics trends in global economy, politics, social life and coulture, regardless of the stage of advancement or physical geography. The prevailing liberalization of trade, currency and capital markets, multinational production, and technological advancement constitutes its driving force. It has caused Polish, transforming economy to subject to globalization effects. These influences can be both positive and negative. As a result of the spreading globalization, labour share in the national income has de-creased, suggesting that the meaning of work has weakened. On the other hand, as reported by the national labour market, globalization has brought unemployment, discrepancies in wage ranges between qualified and unqualified employees, and growth of the group of "working poor". The purpose of this article is to investigate the influence that change of labour share in the national income has on the level of wage discrepancies in Visegrad Group in years 1993-2011. The analysis covers review of literature on globalization, considering particularly labour share in the national income. It bases also on data from OECD and World Bank, to which induction as well as descriptive statistics were applied.
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