Wykształcenie a problemy rynku pracy
Education and problems of the labour market

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to answer the question whether it would be appropriate to reduce the percentage of young people who decide to complete the higher education before taking up employment. Increasing lack of employees in Poland and the attempts undertaken by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education in order to improve the quality of academic education by moving away from mass education, make this question extremely current. The research uses data for the years 2008—2017 taken from the resources of the OECD, Statistics Poland and the Public Opinion Research Center. The results of the conducted analyses, considering all levels of education, indicated that people who completed tertiary education, both in Poland and abroad, are characterised by the highest economic activity rate and are the most willing to take part in vocational programmes at an adult age. For many years, graduates of higher education institutions in Poland have been the least exposed to unemployment. Taking into account other benefits from education — in individual and social terms — the claim that the economic or social development of the country will be facilitated by the reduction of the percentage of young people obtaining higher education is not justified.

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