Wybrane problemy współczesnych rynków pracy na przykładzie województwa śląskiego

The main purpose of this study is to describe selected aspects of the modern labour market of the Silesian voivodeship and to show these factors, of which meaning will grow in the future. Particularly, demographic conditionality of labor market in future was an object of the interest. A so-called the jobless growth was another considered problem. In order to de-scribe the relation between the economic growth rate and the employment growth rate in the Silesian voivodeship a segmented regression model was applied. The last part of the paper was devoted to problems of the innovation of the economy. The analysis of the relationship between the gross expenses on the research and development (domestic and provincial) and the value GDP was conducted.