Abstract

The purpose of the article was to discuss the impact of administrative reforms on the dynamics and the direction of changes occurring in the labour market structure of cities. In the existing research the view prevails that the loss of the voivodship capital function contributes strongly to the socio-economic degradation of the city. In Poland, this discussion has been caused by an administrative reform, as a result of which 49 existing voivodships and the related 49 voivodship capitals were replaced by 16 voivodships and 18 regional capitals. The carried out research focused on both these Polish urban centres which lost their voivodship status and the ones which retained it and become the centres of new, large regions. The Bray-Curtis measure was used to analyse the studied transformations. The data for 2005 and 2016 were used in the research. The conducted study allowed the identification of groups of the cities characterised by a similar range of changes in labour market structure. The research focused on answering the question whether retaining or losing the status of a voivodship city is related to the scale of these changes. The research results presented in the article seem to confirm that the role of administrative changes in the development of cities is not as extensive as it has commonly been attributed. The actual reasons for the economic growth of large centres, or the shrinking of some former voivodship cities, cannot be reduced to the effects of the reform itself. They result, to a much greater extent, from the processes of deindustrialisation, predominantly related to the regression of the declining industry sectors.

Highlights

  • The labour market is an example of the market developed in the course of a historical process, the importance of which is essential for the proper functioning of economy in national, regional, and local dimensions

  • The purpose of the article is to determine the dynamics and to evaluate changes occurring labour market structure of larger Polish cities, including the division into voivodship cities and the ones which lost this function as a result of the aforementioned reform covering the and the ones which lost this function as a result of the aforementioned reform system of public administration

  • In the group of regional capitals these shares were, on average, higher and their growth was more dynamic than in the cities deprived of the capital status

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Introduction

The labour market is an example of the market developed in the course of a historical process, the importance of which is essential for the proper functioning of economy in national, regional, and local dimensions. The subject literature is dominated by the opinion that administrative changes exert large impact on the labour market. This problem was discussed by e.g., P. It translates a dominating opinion, among researchers, about the negative impact of administrative functions’ loss by cities and the development of political debate in the country

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