MAŁOPOLSKIE INSTYTUCJE RYNKU PRACY I ICH ROLA W PRZECIWDZIAŁANIU BEZROBOCIU W GRUPIE 50+
LESSER POLAND LABOUR MARKET INSTITUTIONS AND THEIR ROLE IN COMBATING UNEMPLOYMENT AMONG PEOPLE 50+

Summary/Abstract: Unemployment is an important economic problem – at the local, regional and global level. It is seen as an element which influences directly or indirectly various social dysfunctions. This is mainly due to the role that work plays in society, which is one of the factors of production – along with capital and land. Its economic significance comes primarily – on a global basis – from multiplying the social product and influencing the economic growth, while for an individual is a way to raise funds and to meet specific human needs. Lack of employment, understood as a state of inactivity of people ready and able to work, creates various negative consequences – like social and economic, psychological, biological and political developments. Unemployment is also a problem because it affects every society without exception, almost everyone, regardless of profession, social status, and age. One such group are those who are on a ‘border’ activity, i.e. those aged over 50 years, people sometimes referred to as ‘approaching retirement age’. It is true that in Polish conditions is difficult at present – in a situation of introducing regulations which increase the retirement age (to 67 years) and equalizing in this area men and women – treating people from the 50+ group as ‘ending economic activity’, moreover, from a psychological point of view, this level of human development is called the ‘period of late adulthood’ given the nature of effective psychosocial functioning of the unit. The reality, however, shows that in the absence of qualifications, health status and the lack of other predispositions required by today's employers, and for other reasons, they are exposed to a greater extent to the loss of a job or the difficulty of finding it, but – as is speech – the reasons for this are rather different

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