ABSTRACT

In general, the aggregate growth of labour resources depends on a number of factors, such as population growth, changes in the age structure of the population, the participation rates of each group in employment, the average working hours per year, wage rates and labour mobility. The general tendencies governing the behaviour of each of these factors individually as well as their inter-relationships have varied over time. The scope of government policy to influence the behaviour of each of these factors has also differed. In the CPEs, the planner must provide short-, medium-and long-term labour resources estimates or forecasts for the construction of employment plans. They form a part of the overall socio-economic plans and specify, among other things, the necessary labour inputs to achieve the objectives of the plan, setting up ‘labour balances’ (‘bilansy siły roboczej’). The government adopts certain socio-economic measures which attempt to regulate the supply of labour directly and indirectly in accordance with the basic objectives of the socioeconomic plan.