The relationship between level of education and duration of job seeking regarding the unemployed in Poland

Abstract

The changes that occurred in the structure of unemployed in Poland during the time period 2007–2014 have been assessed in this article. Parts of the registered belonging to the following groups: 1) people with tertiary education, 2) post-secondary and vocational secondary, 3) general secondary, 4) basic vocational, 5) lower secondary and lower, were determined. The obtained results were compared with information on the unemployment rates in these groups. Additionally for each of the five specified groups the percentages of persons seeking jobs during: I) up to 3 months, II) over 3 months, but not longer than 6 months, III) over 6 months, but not longer than 12 months, IV) over 12 months, but not longer than 24 months, V) more than 24 months, were computed. In the next step the parametric test of significance was used to assess the scale of differences between identified fractions of the unemployed. The calculations were performed separately for eight consecutive years. Within the research carried out in this paper it was shown that in Poland persons with a university degree are able to find a new job the most quickly. The unemployed with general secondary education have to seek jobs longer, next are those with post-secondary and vocational secondary, then basic vocational and the longest – the unemployed with lower secondary, primary and incomplete primary education. This regularity concerned all the years examined and was not due to chance.