Polish Abstract: Celem podjętych w niniejszym artykule badań jest analiza cech osób starszych studiujących na UTW, która pozwoliłaby na wyodrębnienie czynników skłaniających ich do podjęcia takiej formy aktywności. Analizie podlegały dane 757 studentów UTW Uniwersytetu...

Monitoring of poverty indexes and structure of household expenditures is one of diagnostic and warning tool for social politics. Well-being or poverty of selected households’ groups can be illustrated not only by mentioned categories, but also by possession of consumer durables. Thus, there is...

The paper aims at assessing selected approaches to measuring effectiveness of tertiary education and their applicability. The applied methods, among others, include classical methods (ANOVA, Mincerian earnings function, correspondence analysis, hierarchical agglomerative clustering), as well as...

There is a need to measure the efficiency and effectiveness of higher education in its various aspects, including the area of non-monetary benefits of higher education. Education relates to the wider economic and social effects and human welfare depends partly on earnings but also on...

During the last few years the Polish job and labor market has been improving significantly. Both, the number of unemployed and the unemployment rate have dropped, and employment has increased in Poland. Despite these positive trends, unemployment is still one of the most crucial social challenge...