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Foreigners in the labour market in Śląskie Voivodship

The aim of the paper is to show how the presence of foreigners in the Śląskie Voivodship labour market was changing in the years 2014–2017. The scale of the influx of foreign workers into the labour market in Śląskie Voivodship was examined on the basis of the data on the number of declarations of intention to employ a foreigner and work permits issued, obtained from the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy, and the information about the local labour market provided by the Statistical Office in Katowice. The paper also analyses the situation of both the unemployed and working foreigners, taking into account the type of the performed work and their legal status on the labour market, for the purpose of which result data from surveys of the labour market carried out by Statistics Poland were used. The study utilises methods of analysing time series, such as statistical indices and trend determination by the mechanical method (moving averages) and the analytical method (a classic method of least squares). The results of the study indicate significant changes in the situation of foreigners in the labour market in Śląskie Voivodship, and show that the demand for foreign workers, and thus their importance in the labour market have grown.