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Wewnątrzregionalne zróżnicowanie rynku pracy w Polsce
Intra-regional differences in the Polish labour market

Author(s): Tomasz Misiak, Tomasz Tokarski
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Social Sciences, Economy, Geography, Regional studies, National Economy, Regional Geography, Sociology, Labor relations, Demography and human biology, Human Resources in Economy, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Główny Urząd Statystyczny
Keywords: regional labour market; regional diversity; convergence; divergence

Summary/Abstract: The authors present a statistical analysis of the feature convergence and divergence processes describing the situation on the labor markets in voivodships. The analysis was conducted based on CSO data on the poviat registered unemployment rates and real gross wages. The paper discusses the theoretical aspects of the processes of σ- and β-convergence and real divergence and presents an analysis of intra-regional differences in registered unemployment rates and real gross wages as well as σ-process of convergence and divergence, and then estimates the parameters of β-convergence and divergence equations of the analyzed features.

  • Issue Year: 57/2012
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 68-89
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Polish