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Regionalne zróżnicowanie bezrobocia
Unemployment diversification in regions

Author(s): Tomasz Tokarski
Subject(s): Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Główny Urząd Statystyczny
Keywords: comparative spatial analysis; labour market; regional diversity; unemployment rate; gross domestic product; GDP

Summary/Abstract: The article includes analysis results of the GDP growth rate influence on unemployment rates in voivodships in years 1995–2006. Results of the study are as follows: firstly, unemployment rates increased/decreased the most quickly in these voivodships where they were prior formed on a high level, and secondly, high GDP growth rates are usually accompanied, ceteris paribus, by low increases of unemployment rates. This means, that the spatial diversification of unemployment in Poland is fairly stable, and depends on spatial diversification of the economic growth.

  • Issue Year: 55/2010
  • Issue No: 05
  • Page Range: 41-56
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish
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