PHENOMEN OF UNDEREMPLOYMENT IN THE LABOUR MARKET IN POLAND

Abstract

The aim of the article was to analyze the phenomenon of underemployment
in terms of gender equality in the labor market in Poland between 2005-2019.
The article investigates whether the same tendencies of changes occure amongst
underempolyed men and women. In addition, the part-time employment was outlined
together with the employed and unemployed in Poland within the above-mentioned
years in order to examine the research problem more extensively. The author of the
article used simple statistical tools, such as: analysis of the dynamics of changes in the
form of a measure of relative increase with a variable base and the average rates of
changes of the phenomenon over time. The conducted research allowed to determine
the average values in individual years and indicate the periods with the highest and the
lowest results. Moreover, the applied tools made it possible to determine the annual
changes among the underemployed, employed and unemployed. The article uses data
gained from the International Labor Organization together with literature related to the
topic of the examination including foreign literature.