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Development of competencies in the information society

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Frank R.

Tudomanyos es Muszaki Tajekoztatas ( Scientific and Technical Information; Hungarian journal of library and information science)

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2006

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vol. 53

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issue 9

391-403

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On today's labour market, recruitment tendencies show a somewhat decreased interest in workforce with specialised knowledge, while there seems to be a strong need for people who are ready to acquire new knowledge, skills and competencies. In the information age, digital and information literacy have become essential competencies. The basics of information literacy can be acquired by distance learning or at special courses organised by libraries. During the timeframe of the current research, part-time students of the Szombathely Teachers' Training College acquired the basics of research methodology via a distance learning course of 12 hours. The knowledge acquired at the course was then transformed into competencies doing practical exercises at the college library. The experiences of this project as well as outcomes of other user education courses at public libraries were examined by tests and questionnaires. The findings showed that the applied method successfully contributed to the development of the information literacy competencies of the participants. However, it was also shown that even when choosing the downloadable electronic format, participants printed it out prior to learning.

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Badanie „Wejście młodych ludzi na rynek pracy” w II kwartale 2009 r. – wybrane zagadnienia

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Mathea E., Mistrzak A.

Prace i Materiały Wydziału Zarządzania Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego

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2011

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vol. 2

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issue 3

165-176

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The article presents results of the Labour Force Survey module survey “Entry of young person into the labour market in 2009”. It contains information enabling the assessment of the impact of the young people’s educational level on their job, expectations regarding the first job and their status on the labour market. The survey was conducted by the Central Statistical Office in the 2nd quarter of 2009 and provided data on the employment situation of the population aged 15-34.

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POLICY CHALLENGES IN GERMANY AND POLAND: WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THE SHARE DATA (Wyzwania dla polityki spoleczno-gospodarczej w Niemczech i w Polsce na podstawie danych SHARE 24)

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Myck M.

Ekonomia. Rynek, Gospodarka, Społeczeństwo

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2011

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issue 27

24-38

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The paper compares a set of health and labour market outcomes for three populations from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). We analyse differences between the Polish aged 50+ and the respective German population divided into those who prior to the unification in 1989 lived in the East and West Germany. In terms of most analysed outcomes we find a 'West-East gradient' with the most favourable statistics found for the west German population and the worst for Poland. The unfavourable situation on the labour market in Poland goes along poor health and lifestyle outcomes on most measures, and it seems that employment and health-related policies should be designed in combination to address the problems. The East–West divide in Germany still seems to present a policy challenge. We find important differences in such outcomes as labour market arrangements and such health outcomes as incidence of high blood pressure and diabetes. The East–West gradient is also found in the so-called underused capacity, i.e. the proportion of healthy individuals aged 50-65 who are not employed. The main factor behind this in Poland is retirement, while the difference in Germany is largely caused by higher levels of unemployment in the east.

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Labour Market in Health Sector - Neglected Field of Governance

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Golinowska S.

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2008

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vol. 35

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issue 7(412)

1-5

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According to the thesis stated in the article, the labour market of the health sector is the analytically neglected area, which influences the weaknesses of the process of labour resources managing and, as a consequence, the lower efficiency of functioning in relation to the possible level. Moreover, this kind of weakness in the health sector management increases the danger of maintaining the serious unbalance between the labour supply and the labour demand. Such an unbalance is already present and is increasing; additionally, it has a global character. The lack of specialists in the medical professions is estimated globally at around 4,3 mln employed. Simultaneously, there is a huge increase of needs on the demand side. The main factor of increase of health needs - the increase of income - is nowadays intensified by the demographic and epidemiological changes, connected mainly with the population aging process. It is stressed in the article that in order to fight efficiently the shrinking of labour resources of medical professions, one should undertake immediate actions in the field of education, improvement of working conditions and wages of doctors and nurses, and introduce the institution of social dialogue into the current system of collective bargaining in Poland.

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Cooperation between Labour Offices and Employment Agencies

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Kukulak-Dolata I.

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2008

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vol. 35

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issue 1(406)

8-13

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In the presented article the results of research on cooperation between the county labour offices and employment agencies were shown. The research was conducted in 2007 as a part of a project 'The potential and perspectives of cooperation between the employment agencies and public employment services', which was co-funded with resources form the European Social Fund. Up-to-date fields of cooperation and its frequency were covered in the analysis. The public service staff were asked their opinions about continuing the cooperation in the future. If a situation where there was no cooperation with the employment agencies occurred, the crucial thing was to evaluate the reasons of such a state.

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Poles' Economic Migration after the EU Enlargement

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Marek E.

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2008

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vol. 35

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issue 11-12(416-417)

23-27

EN

Many Poles have emigrated to the European Union countries to work. In years 2004-2007, total volume of such migration is estimated at 1860 thousand people, mainly to the Great Britain, Germany, and Ireland. Mass emigration causes a number of demographic and economic problems in Poland, in that also in the labour market. Because of approaching recession in the western countries returning and an increase in the unemployment should be expected.

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Flexicurity – koncepcja i jej weryfikacja w okresie kryzysu i spowolnienia po 2007 roku

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Gładzicka-Janowska A.

Optimum. Studia Ekonomiczne

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2013

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issue 3(63)

195-216

EN

The term flexicurity redefines the relationship between employers and employees in the labour market. Flexicurity attempts to strike a balance between the flexibility of employment and the competitiveness of en¬trepreneurs. Denmark and the Netherlands, which have successfully applied flexicurity solutions, are looked up to when it comes to the implementation of these solutions. Long before the economic crisis and down¬turn, flexicurity solutions had proven to be an effective tool to maintain the lowest levels of unemployment among the EU countries. The article presents the results of research on the relationships between the unemployment rate and the flexibility of labour market during the period of the economic crisis and downturn after 2007.

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Labor Migrants in Social Hierarchy of Ukrainian Society: Status, Values, Life Strategies, Lifestyles

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Prybytkowa I.

Studia Socjologiczne

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2004

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issue 4(175)

61-89

EN

The autoress presents the results of her research of the labour migration in the Ukraine under transformation of economic and social relations. The principal attention is paid to the status positions of labour migrants in the social hierarchy of Ukrainian society, the system of their values and life strategies, the style and a mode of life, the behaviour at the labour market, public feelings. The foreign policy orientations and home politics priorities of labour migrants, their market intentions and expectations, self-appraisal of the participation level in decision-making and protest potential are examined as well. It is stated that representatives of this stratum can be regarded as a resource of forming middle class the Ukraine.

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STRATEGIES OF SOCIAL POLICY (Strategiczne kierunki rozwoju polityki spolecznej)

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Barr N.

Problemy Polityki Społecznej. Studia i Dyskusje

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2007

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vol. 10

15-22

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The article is a translation of the opening speech, delivered by Nicholas Barr at the 5th International Research Conference on Social Security, 5-7.03.2007, Warsaw, titled 'Social Security and the Labour Market: a mismatch?'. The starting point of the article is the presentation of the economic social change during the last 50 years. The further parts discuss its influence on social policy, with the focus point on the changes in strategic policy directions. The last part of the article presents the spheres of mismatch between the labour market and social security with the clear suggestions for social policy reforms.

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Expansion of higher education, 'graduate unemployment' and the market value of a degree

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Kertesi G., Kollo J.

Kozgazdasagi Szemle (Economic Review)

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2006

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vol. 53

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issue 3

201-225

EN

It is often argued that the expansion of higher education, which has doubled the annual flows of college and university graduates onto the Hungarian labour market, is inevitably conducive to high unemployment among high-skilled youth, and/or a dramatic fall in their returns from higher education. The paper looks at the evolution of the employment, unemployment, and relative wages of graduates from higher education, using data from the Labour Force Survey (1995-2003) and the Wage Survey (1992-2004). The analysis relates to age cohorts across and within occupations, and discusses the possible effects on older and less skilled workers. Young people's returns on higher education increased substantially in 1992-2000, and fell thereafter, especially in the business sector. Workers with a secondary-school background lost jobs and experienced falling relative wages in occupations subject to huge inflows of university graduates. However, the employment ratios were rising and unemployment falling, among university graduates and among less educated workers 'ousted' by them. The results suggest that after a decade of skill upgrading and excess demand for highly skilled youth, the markets are now moving along more or less stable demand curves.

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Statystyczna weryfikacja założeń i celów strategii lizbońskiej w sferze zatrudnienia w 2009 roku. Polska na tle krajów Unii Europejskiej

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Malina A.

Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego w Krakowie

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2011

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issue 876

85-104

EN

The article presents Lisbon Strategy premises and goals for employment on UE territory, focusing especially on directives concerning EU employment rates (total, women’s and older workers employment rates). The analysis indicates that, compared with other EU countries, the situation in Poland in 2004–2009 was not an auspicious one for women, men or older workers (aged 55–64). The gap between projections for 2010 – 50% employment for older workers, works out for Poland to 18 percentage points; for women the figure breaks down to 7 percentage points while for men it is about 10 percentage points. A similar situation can be observed in Hungary and Italy. The analysis shows that changes in both the employment and unemployment rates in 2004–2009 in Poland, like those in the EU’s new member states, should be seen as positive.

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Badanie realizacji celów strategii lizbońskiej w obszarze rynku pracy w krajach Unii Europejskiej

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Malina A.

Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego w Krakowie

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2012

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issue 880

21-30

EN

The paper presents assumptions and targets formulated in the Lisbon Strategy for employment on UE territory. It focuses on directives concerning EU employment rates (total, women’s and older workers’ employment rates). The analysis indicates that the situation in Poland in 2008–2009, compared with EU countries, was not a favourable one. It also considers the employment rates of women, men and older workers (aged 55–64). The gap between projections for 2010 – a 50% rate of older workers rates and the Polish respective figure amounts to 18 percentage points, the gap for the women’s rate was 7.6 percentage points, and the gap for the men’s rate was 10.8 percentage points. A similar situation was observed in Hungary and Italy. Only Malta saw a higher distance between these indicators. The analysis shows that changes in employment and unemployment rates from 2004 to 2009 in Poland, like those in other new EU members, should be considered positive.

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Uncertainty and the demand for redistribution in Hungary

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Molnar G., Kapitany Z.

Kozgazdasagi Szemle (Economic Review)

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2007

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vol. 54

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issue 3

201-232

EN

The main objective determinants of demand for redistribution are labour-market participation, education, family structure (to some extent), and income mobility. Demand from people of low education and living on the border between activity and inactivity - the unemployed, disability pensioners, casual workers, and people living on benefits - is higher than from others, irrespective of income level. Redistribution is favoured to a less than average extent by entrepreneurs, managers and chief executives. Long-term downwardly mobile people favour income redistribution more than others, but long-term upward mobility does not decrease demand and may even increase it. The authors analyse systematic differences between factual relative and subjective income mobility. This mobility perception difference shows that perceived, not actual relative income position is the strong determinant. Underestimation of relative income position can be an important cause of high demand. A very low proportion of people are strongly opposed to redistribution. Those dissatisfied are more favourably inclined. Labour-market expectations are crucial influences on demand; the greater the employment anxiety, the greater the support for redistribution. The same applies to belief that inequalities are increasing. The most frustrated are the indecisive, with no clear idea of their future, and they are the most averse to the rich. It emerges that perception of income mobility is state-dependent and influenced mostly by uncertainty. The main policy conclusion is that reducing uncertainty on the labour market and raising educational attainment may be the most efficient government tools for lowering demand for redistribution, rather than directly increasing income.

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Mobility, uncertainty and subjective welfare in Hungary.

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Molnar G., Kapitany Z.

Kozgazdasagi Szemle (Economic Review)

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2006

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vol. 53

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issue 10

845-872

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One of the decisive factors behind satisfaction (subjective welfare) is income mobility. Individuals usually judge change in their income position in terms of change in relative position, not in level of income. So the study analyses in the main the effect on satisfaction exerted in Hungary by objective and subjective indices of relative income mobility, in the 2000-2002 period, when the rate of growth in real incomes was exceptionally high. The findings confirm that in upwardly mobile families with increasing incomes in the period examined, the rise in relative income position did not bring added satisfaction: those whose relative position had improved were less satisfied than their attained income level would warrant. This situation pertains primarily because of uncertainty about the objective variables, when those whose incomes are rising do not expect the positive trends to persist. Those in a marginal labour market situation are more dissatisfied than others, regardless of their income, and this dissatisfaction may spread to family members in a different position. This combined sphere makes up almost a third of Hungary's population. Negative labour-market expectations are likewise factors that reduce satisfaction.

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The adjustment cost of the Association Agreement in the Hungarian food industry

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Ferto I.

Kozgazdasagi Szemle (Economic Review)

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2006

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vol. 53

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issue 9

799-811

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The article examines the structure of Hungary's food trade expansion over the 1995- 2003 transition period and its implications for labour-market adjustment. An econometric analysis of trade and employment data suggests that changes in domestic consumption and productivity have significant influence on employment changes. Strong positive and significant effects on these are also exerted by market concentration, while FDI has no influence on them. The results do not provide clear support for the smooth-adjustment hypothesis of intra-industry trade. However, the results should be interpreted with care, due to sensitivity to choice of period and lag structure.

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Szkolnictwo wyższe w Polsce a rynek pracy

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Grzejszczak R.

Zarządzanie i Finanse

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2012

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vol. 1

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issue 2

483-493

EN

The paper presents relations between graduate education in Poland and the labour market. Nowadays the graduates are often unemployed and this trend augments. Who is responsible for this social phenomenon? Students? Universities? Or the state with its unreasonable politics on education?

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EFFICIENCY OF THE ACTIVE LABOUR MARKET POLICIES: EVIDENCE FROM THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC

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Karasová K., Baláž V., Polačková Z.

Ekonomický časopis (Journal of Economics)

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2019

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vol. 67

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issue 1

3 – 32

EN

This paper analyses the performance of active labour market policies (ALMP) in Slovakia. We found limited evidence of the economic efficiency of the ALMP in Slovakia. We quantify the relative importance of the ALMP compared to other factors for the employability of job seekers. ALMP performance relates to a host of external factors, such as business cycles, the number of local job vacancies, discrimination towards some ethnic minorities, and levels of regional development. Furthermore, we quantify policy effectiveness of the most important ALMP instruments. The concluding part of the paper points towards the importance of the ongoing demographic transition for revamping the current structure of ALMP.

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REGIME SWITCHING MODELLING OF UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN EASTERN EUROPE

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Lukianenko I., Oliskevych M., Bazhenova O.

Ekonomický časopis (Journal of Economics)

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2020

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vol. 68

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issue 4

380 – 408

EN

This paper investigates the unemployment rate dynamics in Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Bulgaria, Romania and Ukraine during 2000 – 2017. To analyse the dynamics of unemployment rate we constructed econometric regression models with nonlinearities that arose due to discrete changes in modes. We developed Markov switching model that allowed capturing the regularities by modelling the asymmetry in the unemployment rate during contractionary and expansionary states of the labour market. We evaluated two regimes of unemployment behaviour that were associated with high and low unemployment levels and estimated the transition probabilities of regime change and average expected durations in each regime. The comparison of mean and volatility of different regimes and the one-step ahead predictions of the regime probabilities for different countries revealed the labour market specifics for each country and showed differences in the flexibility of their reactions to changing economic environment.

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ZHODNOTENIE VÝVOJA TRHU PRÁCE NA SLOVENSKU V ROKU 2005 A JEHO KRÁTKODOBÝ VÝHĽAD

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Morvay K.

Ekonomický časopis (Journal of Economics)

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2006

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vol. 54

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issue 5

457-467

EN

In the previous years, the development of the macroeconomic parameters was favourable, except the labour market. The trends in an unemployment rate, as well as a development of the real wages seemed not to be in the accord with the high economic growth. In 2005, the development on the labour market was different, and more favourable than in the previous the other kinds of imbalance - higher growth of the real wages compared with lower growth of a productivity. This article explains changes in the development trends in the year 2005, makes statements to some discussed topics (risks of imbalance between wage growth and productivity growth or the scope of tax wedge) and indicates the possible development projections in the years 2006 and 2007.

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Pojęcie grywalizacji wobec zjawisk związanych z rynkiem pracy

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Litwin M.

Homo Ludens

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2014

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issue 1(6)

75-85

EN

Employers look for talented people who are not afraid of challenges. Job advertisements and the recruitment process constitute a kind of game in which the prize is the job. Through a variety of tasks and the way the interview is conducted, recruiters try to find a person who meets all of their expectations. It is for the candidate to decide how to engage in this challenge. It also happens that the applicant creates the rules of the game to catch the attention of the employer and be remembered. This paper is an attempt to answer the question if and how the concept of gamification may be appropriate to describe this process.

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