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Job creation and labour market flexibility: miracle or mirage on the Polish labour market?
Author(s) -
Ingham Hilary,
Ingham Mike
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
industrial relations journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.525
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1468-2338
pISSN - 0019-8692
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2338.2011.00631.x
Subject(s) - dynamism , labour market flexibility , unemployment , accession , economics , labour economics , flexibility (engineering) , directive , job creation , work (physics) , liberalization , market economy , european union , international economics , macroeconomics , mechanical engineering , physics , management , quantum mechanics , computer science , engineering , programming language
Poland's post‐communist economic performance has been generally good. However, for many years, its growth was jobless; it exhibited very high unemployment rates and made little progress towards the targets set for EU Member States and accession countries. Unexpectedly, in 2003, the country's labour market began to exhibit a new dynamism, with employment growing strongly and unemployment tumbling. This apparent improvement coincided with a liberalisation of its Labour Code. Unfortunately, the measures introduced to increase flexibility are at variance with the EU's Fixed‐term Work Directive and will likely need to be modified, which may conceivably reverse the recent developments that form the focus of this article.