TY - JOUR

T1 - Job creation and labour market flexibility

T2 - miracle or mirage on the Polish labour market?

AU - Ingham, Hilary

AU - Ingham, Mike

PY - 2011/7

Y1 - 2011/7

N2 - Poland's post‐communist economic performance has been generally good. However, for many years, its growth was jobless; it exhibited very high unemployment rates and made little progress towards the targets set for EU Member States and accession countries. Unexpectedly, in 2003, the country's labour market began to exhibit a new dynamism, with employment growing strongly and unemployment tumbling. This apparent improvement coincided with a liberalisation of its Labour Code. Unfortunately, the measures introduced to increase flexibility are at variance with the EU's Fixed‐term Work Directive and will likely need to be modified, which may conceivably reverse the recent developments that form the focus of this article.

AB - Poland's post‐communist economic performance has been generally good. However, for many years, its growth was jobless; it exhibited very high unemployment rates and made little progress towards the targets set for EU Member States and accession countries. Unexpectedly, in 2003, the country's labour market began to exhibit a new dynamism, with employment growing strongly and unemployment tumbling. This apparent improvement coincided with a liberalisation of its Labour Code. Unfortunately, the measures introduced to increase flexibility are at variance with the EU's Fixed‐term Work Directive and will likely need to be modified, which may conceivably reverse the recent developments that form the focus of this article.

U2 - 10.1111/j.1468-2338.2011.00631.x

DO - 10.1111/j.1468-2338.2011.00631.x

M3 - Journal article

VL - 42

SP - 339

EP - 357

JO - Industrial Relations Journal

JF - Industrial Relations Journal

SN - 0019-8692

IS - 4

ER -