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5 Law & Admin. Post-Soviet Eur. 4 (2018)

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LAW AND ADMINISTRATION
IN POST-SOVIET EUROPE
Vol. 1/2018: 4-12

DOI: 10.2478/lape-2018-0001
Pawel Antoszak
Uniwersytet Kazimierza Wielkiego w Bydgoszczy
Regional Differences
in Wage in Some European Countries
Key words: diversity, salaries, wages, Europe, region, branches of the national economy, employee, employer

Admission
Problems remuneration are fundamental and impor-
tant issues of the modern economy and economics. It
concerns the human factor and provided by his work
and the expectations of employees with the work-
-related in the form of wages. Attitudes and behavior of
people and involving their actions, skills and knowledge
,,translate the same time for certain expenditures and
tangible effects as in the economy as a whole system and
in each of its divisions or business organizations.
Among the various aspects of the evolution of wages
in a market economy deserves special attention regional
wage differentiation in selected European countries. It
is when the result of various factors: demographic - so-
cial (including age, sex and education) and economic
(economic development, labor market situation, the
economic attractiveness). Knowledge of the level and
diversity of remuneration for the work may be used in
the European economy (and so the scale micro- and
macro) to efforts to increase efficiency and improve the
competitive position of enterprises and to a more ra-

tional management of human resources in the region
and country. Level, dynamics and relationships wage
in business organizations depend on the situation on
the labor market, and thus require a detailed and con-
tinuous monitoring and analysis and evaluation. Wage
differentiation points because among other things, how
much should be paid to different positions in order to
obtain, among others, employees with the desired qual-
ifications.
In Europe, the current notice at the same time and
a situation in which there are professional and social
groups that achieve relatively diverse and high level of
income. For example. There are already people who
within a month time, they are able to earn more than
others for a lifetime. This situation raises specific discus-
sions and emotions in different environments. The more
that a dozen or so years ago, differences in income, in-
cluding wage and were small'. Also, the level, relation-
' H. Karaszewska, Evolution of wages in Poland in the pe-
riod of change of the economic system, Publishing Nicolaus Co-
pernicus University in Torun, Torun 2003, p. 169.
2 W. Jarmolowicz, M. Knapinska, Remuneration for the float