The Polish Regional Labour Market Welfare Indicator And Its Links To Other Well-being Measures

• Authors: Marek Ręklewski , Maciej Ryczkowski

Title variants

Wskaźnik dobrobytu na rynku pracy w Polsce i jego związek z innymi miernikami dobrostanu

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

We propose and construct an indicator of labour market well-being in Poland for the year 2013. The indicator is positively related to the degree of civilizational welfare, social welfare, material welfare and psychological wellbeing in Poland. We conclude that ameliorating the labour market situation improves the quality of the public’s life. The link between our labour market indicator and the total fertility rate turned out to be statistically insignificant.

PL

W artykule zaproponowano i skonstruowano zagregowany miernik dobrobytu na rynku pracy w Polsce na przykładzie roku 2013. Miernik ten okazał się pozytywnie skorelowany z poziomem cywilizacyjnym, dobrostanem społecznym, dobrobytem materialnym i dobrostanem psychicznym. Oznacza to, że wraz z polepszeniem się sytuacji na rynku pracy poprawia się jakość życia społeczeństwa w Polsce. Nie wykazano statystycznie istotnego związku między dobrobytem na rynku pracy a współczynnikiem dzietności.

Keywords

EN

labour market; Weber median; delimitation; well-being indicators; welfare economics

PL

rynek pracy; mediana Webera; delimitacja; mierniki dobrobytu; ekonomia dobrobytu; rynek pracy; mediana Webera; delimitacja; mierniki dobrobytu; ekonomia dobrobytu

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 113-132

Dates

published

2016-09-30

Contributors

author

Marek Ręklewski

• Statistical Office in Bydgoszcz, Labour Market Methodology Section

author

Maciej Ryczkowski

• Statistical Office in Bydgoszcz, Labour Market Methodology Section; Nicolaus Copernicus University, Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management, The Department of Economics

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/cer-2016-0023