Ekonomiczno-społeczne uwarunkowania bezrobocia na ziemi bialskiej

The research deals with unemployment in the Biała Podlaska Region. Their purpose was to analyse the socio-economic conditions that affect the rate of unemployment in the Biała Podlaska Region. A survey research was conducted among people living in towns, in the region, and among other inhabitants of Biała Podlaska. The results are based to a large extent on an analysis of the frequency of survey responses. The research have shown that a large part of subjects adopt a pessimistic attitude to the fact that Poland has joined the European Union, an effect of their fear of the increase of competition and unemployment. The inhabitants of the Biała Podlaska Region think that the most important factor affecting unemployment is the loss of the status of an administrative unit. According to the subjects, the most important things for the Biała Podlaska Region are the following: development of farm and food industry, economic development of the region in relation to the Union programmes for the development of small and medium enterprises, and collaboration with Byelorussia.