Wzory ruchliwości pracowniczej we współczesnych teoriach rynku pracy

Abstract

Changes in the system of managing the national economy in Poland and the implementation of a conception of development based to a higher degree on economic coercion make it necessary to modify the aims and methods of the employment policy and to apply the mechanisms of the labour market. In contemporary economy and sociology there is a number of theories aiming at explaining behaviours of the labour market subjects. The article synthetically characterizes selected theories in 3 groups: 1) theories of behaviours on the labour market in flexible conditions of employment (The status attainment theory, the human capital theory, the job-search theory, the imperfect competition theory); 2) theories of behaviours in non-flexible conditions of employment (the job-competition theory, the vacancy competition theory) and 3) a dynamic model which reduces the shortcomings present in the previous conceptions, especially their static or semi-static character. The analyses of the above theories stress mainly the regularities of the employees' behaviours, conceived in terms of sociological categories of rewards and punishments, and especially in terms of increases and decreases in job-status in consequence of the employees' mobility.