Institutional Determinants of Regional Diversity of Labor Market in Poland

• Authors: Woźniak-Jęchorek Beata
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article focuses on regional diversity of the Polish Labor Market from institutional perspective. The Polish Labor Market is geographically diverse in terms of unemployment and employment rates, and also in terms of economic development. At the end of 2013 the difference between the lowest and the highest unemployment rate in the Polish regions was 12.1% (Wielkopolska located in the West Poland has unemployment rate of 9.6% and Warmia - Mazury in the East has unemployment of 21.7%). The question arises whether this difference comes from the structural or institutional sources. The paper describe the character of Polish Labor Market, whereas in the second part, it traces the impact of institutional variables such as real wage, Kaitz index and Gender gap on the regional unemployment rate in 2002–2012 in Poland.

Keywords

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institutional economics; labor market; institutional unemployment; labor market’s institutions

• Publisher: Instytut Badań Gospodarczych
• Journal: Equilibrium. Quarterly Journal of Economics and Economic Policy
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 129-151

Contributors

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Woźniak-Jęchorek Beata