Professional Passivity in Poland and Selected Groups of the EU Countries

Abstract

Professional passivity constitutes a subject of research presented in the paper. Analyses of populations which are professionally passive at the background of other participants of the labour market (employed and unemployed – i.e. professionally active) in Poland and the European Union were conducted. Analyses of internal structure of the populations which remain professionally passive was performed in the paper accounting for division of the declared population in the BAEL researches the cause of the professional passivity in Poland and three groups of countries – all (27) member states of the European Union and countries of so called Old Union (EU-15) and New Union (EU-12). The analyses concerning the above mentioned scope also focused on the groups of women and men. The time scope of conducted analyses includes period from 2002 to 2012.