Rynek pracy w Polsce w latach 2016–2018 - uwarunkowania i prognozy

In the years 2016–2018, the situation on the labour market in Poland improved considerably. The number of employed persons increased, and the unemployment rate dropped to a historic low level. Still, the market has several structural weaknesses, such as gaps in the personnel’s qualifications versus the needs of entrepreneurs, omnipresent unstable forms of employment, rigidity of the labour code, hidden unemployment in agriculture, and low effectiveness of the labour agencies. As a result, little progress can be observed with regard to Poles’ professional activity, which, consequently, hampers the process of meeting the demographic challenges due to the decreasing population and the Polish society’s aging.