THE CREATION OF NEW JOBS AND ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING
The article was created not only as a summary of the international conference organized under the auspices of the Minister of Finance Leszek Balcerowicz and the Minister of Labour Longin Komołowski on October 23–24, 1998 in Warsaw. It also contains comments and reflections of the author, who was a co-organizer and active participant of this conference. The thematic covers the basic issues of labour market development in the context of economic problems of the passing decade of the Polish transformation. The topics discussed concerned problems such as: labour market flexibility, employee mobility, skills of labour resources and education challenges. The debate also concerned: motivation instruments including payroll (minimum wage) and social benefits policies, that favour of restructuring, increase in the importance of regional policy and local government, and directions of transformation of two special branches of the Polish economic structure: mining and agriculture. It is worth assessing how, after twenty years, the same themes look in a completely different context: the country’s entry into the orbit of accelerated globalization, the effects of participation in the European Union, the radically changed situation on the labour market (instead of unemployment – low supply of labour resources and low professional activity) and a different paradigm for socio-economic development; increase of the economic role of the state and political regulations in the public policies