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Rural Labour Markets and Peripherization Processes in Poland

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Part of the book series: Perspectives on Geographical Marginality ((PGEO,volume 4))

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Social and economic development as well as living conditions in Poland are to a large extent connected to the situation of the labour market: stability of employment, structure and collocation of work resources, adjustment to changing needs of economy and external conditions, i.e. attractiveness and pull factors of foreign labour markets. Likewise, the development of rural areas is closely related to the success or lack of success in nearby urban centres and strongly dependent on fluctuating rural labour resources as well as on externalities and endogenous conditions of the rural labour market. This study attempts to assesses the trends of the rural labour market in the development of rural areas in Poland, taking into account changes in the countryside labour resources (and therefore labour supply) as well as to examine causes that affect the direction of these changes. It also identifies the conditions and ability to maintain or increase the demand for labour in the countryside due to declining employment in agriculture (particularly stable workplaces in the agricultural and non-agricultural sector in rural areas).

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Voivodeship—Polish administration unit on the NUTS2 level (region). Poland is divided into 16 regional administrative units (Dolnośląskie, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Lubelskie, Lubuskie, Łódzkie, Małopolskie, Mazowieckie, Opolskie, Podkarpackie, Podlaskie, Pomorskie, Śląskie, Świętokrzyskie, Warmińsko-Mazurskie, Wielkopolskie, Zachodniopomorskie—the names of voivodeships (regions) according to the official nomenclature of the EU).

  2. 2.

    The term multifunctional development of rural areas was defined by numerous Polish experts in various scientific and practical fields i.e. Jerzy Bański, Adam Czarnecki, Jerzy Falkowski, Marcin Feltynowski, Krystian Heffner, Michał Jasiulewicz, Marek Kłodziński, Andrzej Stasiak and Jerzy Wilkin a synthetic approach with a critical discussion of the works of the authors mentioned in Czarnecki (2009).

  3. 3.

    See Chap. 15 by Burger in this volume.

  4. 4.

    For a discussion of this term, see Chap. 3 by Marada in this volume.

  5. 5.

    Only through growing regional centers, particularly in regions without metropolis, the competitiveness of regions can be maintained, applying preferences for the polarization and diffusion policy at national level (cf. Heffner 2005; National Strategy of Regional Development 2010–2020: Regions, Cities, Rural Areas 2010).

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Heffner, K. (2019). Rural Labour Markets and Peripherization Processes in Poland. In: Leimgruber, W., Chang, Cy. (eds) Rural Areas Between Regional Needs and Global Challenges. Perspectives on Geographical Marginality, vol 4. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04393-3_4

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