UNEMPLOYMENT OF RURAL INHABITANTS AS A DISADVANTAGEOUS FACTOR OF LOCAL AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT

The aim of the paper is to present some selected issues of rural inhabitants’ unemployment on the base of own research with the reference to general situation on labour market in Poland. Empirical data analyzed in the paper comes from the research project entitled “Analysis and assessment of rural women situation on labour market” co-financed by the European Social Fund within Sectoral Operational Programme Human Resources Development realized in Department of Marketing and Agrarian Policy in Warsaw University of Life Sciences in the years 2006–2007. Findings from the research include some patterns which did not depend on the characteristic of rural region but there are also some factors which reveal regional diversification (internal and external factors).