Poland in transition: Labor market data collection

Monthly Labor Review

Volumn 122, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 9-21

  Socha, Mieczyslaw Waclaw ^a   Weisberg, Yaacov ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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References (17)

1. Data relating to Poland's macroeconomic performance come from statistical yearbooks of the Polish Central Statistical Office.
2. See M. W. Socha and U. Sztanderska, "Recent Developments in the Polish Labor Markets: Structural Adjustment in Employment," in H. Lehmann and J. Wadsworth, eds., Labor Market by Design: Labor Market Policies and Creative Use of Household Surveys in Transition Economies (London, Munich, and Cologne, Weltforum Veralg, 1996), pp. 31-45.
3. See Susan Powers, "Statistical needs in Eastern Europe," Monthly Labor Review, March 1992, pp. 18-28.
4. U. Sztanderska, "Changes in the Labor Market: From Rapid Collapse to Step-by-Step Reconstruction of the Demand for Labor," in National Report on Human Development: The Changing Role of the State, Poland '97 (Warsaw, United Nations Development Program, 1997).
5. Ibid.
6. The registration of jobseekers and unemployed workers at the labor offices opened up access to all opportunities offered under labor market policies, as well as to some welfare benefits, including unemployment benefits, free health services, social security benefits, access to job offers reported to Labor Offices, and opportunities to participate in public works, subsidized employment, and training and retraining. Most notably, recent high school and college graduates were strongly motivated to be unemployed by the existing structure of unemployment benefits.
7. This focus is based on the Marxian distinction between productive and nonproductive labor.
8. During the years 1951-55, the Central Statistical Office was forced to discontinue open publications, including the Statistical Yearbook. After a break, the 1955 yearbook was published in 1956. The first Statistical Yearbook of Labor was issued in 1969.
9. For a comprehensive description of the development of the Household Budget Survey, see J. Kordos, "Forty Years of the Household Budget Surveys in Poland," Statistics in Transition, December 1996.
10. For more details about the introduction of the Labor Force Survey, see Labour Force Survey in Poland, November 1997 (Warsaw, Central Statistical Office, 1998); and J. Witkowski and A. Szarkowski, "The Polish Labour Force Survey," Statistics in Transition, June 1994.
11. For more details about the introduction of the Labor Force Survey, see Labour Force Survey in Poland, November 1997 (Warsaw, Central Statistical Office, 1998); and J. Witkowski and A. Szarkowski, "The Polish Labour Force Survey," Statistics in Transition, June 1994.
12. Labour Force Survey in Poland, November 1997 (Warsaw, Central Statistical Office, 1998), p. ix; see also A. Szarkowski, "The Labor Force Survey: Outline of Sampling and Estimation Design," mimeo (Warsaw, Central Statistical Office, 1994).
13. Labour Force Survey in Poland, November 1997 (Warsaw, Central Statistical Office, 1998), p. ix; see also A. Szarkowski, "The Labor Force Survey: Outline of Sampling and Estimation Design," mimeo (Warsaw, Central Statistical Office, 1994).
14. Attrition of the panels was 7.5 percent; see M. Gora and H. Lehmann, "How Divergent Is Regianal Labor Market Adjustment," Discussion Paper No. 21 (Munich, Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, February 1995), p. 2.
15. The Labor Force Survey collects information only on net remuneration, not on wage rates.
16. See J. Rutkowski, "High Skills Pay Off: The Changing Wage Structure during Economic Transition," Economics of Transition, May 1996, pp. 90-92.
17. M. Gora, The Labour Market in Poland: 1990-1995; Empirical and Methodological Studies (Warsaw, SGH, 1996). A more restrictive policy of granting unemployment benefits implemented during the last 2 years could decrease the numbers of unemployed persons who are not actively looking for a job.