GLOBALIZATION AS THE DETERMINANT OF HIGH-TECH SECTORS DEVELOPMENT

Modern, innovative and competitive economy should be complex, harmonious, coherent, flexible and open. This means, without limitation, that economy is composed of main fields determining its modern development, its capacity to be transformed through the reallocation of production factors, as well as its ability to face international competition. The direction and dynamics of changes taking place in highly developed countries indicate shifts towards high-tech industries and modern Knowledge Intensive Services. The development of high-tech sectors is determined by a number of factors of exogenous and endogenous characteristics, among which the features of a modern global economy, i.e. globalization, integration and the internationalization of production are highly important. From the point of view of structural policy and the labour market it is, therefore, essential to identify the fastest growing areas of the Polish economy, characterized by high growth in employment and productivity. Hence, the aim of this article is to determine trends in the evolution of employment structures in various sectors of economy in Poland compared to other European Union countries, with particular emphasis on high-tech sectors.