Uwarunkowania rynku pracy a konkurencyjność przedsiębiorstw przemysłu mleczarskiego (na przykładzie województwa lubelskiego)

The important factors influencing milk enterprises competitiveness involve: labor market local conditionings including labor force resources' size and their changes direction, inhabitants demographic structure, unemployment rate as well as education and professional qualifications level. They have great impact on labor cost level as well as on the level of labor effectiveness and productiveness. Survey shows that Lublin region's de-population, low level of country inhabitants share in Lublin region total population as well as inhabitants aging negatively influences competitiveness ex ante of surveyed entities. Apart from showed suitable labor factor quality, the level of labor effectiveness was identified low what hampered potential use of competitive advantage resulting from less than average labor cost. Above mentioned can result from over-employment in some surveyed entities connected with difficulties with labor factor management. Associated with above difficulties there is potential relation between regional labor conditions - accessibility, quality and price implicating and milk enterprises competitiveness. There is a necessity to rise the labor effectiveness to maintain or increase the competitiveness of milk factories in Lublin region.