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The subject of the studies presented in the article was an assessment of the demand for employment of foreigners in Polish companies (based in the Opole Voivodeship). It involved CAWI and PAPI research. In 2007–2008, the research was conducted among 91 employers employing foreign workforce and it was carried out for the second time in 2014–2015 with 70 participating entrepreneurs. The aim of the research was to determine the reasons for employing foreigners and factors, which could encourage companies to consider ...

The article explores the problem of optimising university training structure to increase focus on the labour market. The proposed solution is constructed using a deterministic approach in which the following vectors are formed: the phase vector, whose coordinates are the values of the parameters describing the training process in higher education institutions at a certain fixed point in time; the controlling action vector (control vector) that allows influencing (by means of funding, the school-leaving exam score ...

The aim of our study is to define and interpret macro-structural changes in a contemporary society that have determined a transformation of the way of life of selected social strata, and pushed their social status down. The author’s intention is to highlight an individual impact of social changes, with a focus on the phenomenon of social exclusion of selected strata that consists of ever increasing number of individuals; that means their reduced chances to participate in economic, social and cultural life of the c...