Bezrobocie długookresowe w Polsce w latach 2004-2013

The aim of the paper is to analyse the scale and structure of long-term unemploy-ment in Poland in 2004-2013. The paper also attempts to answer the question which gro¬ups of people were most at risk of long-term unemployment. The conducted analyses have led to the following conclusions. In the analysed period, the number of long-term unemployed, the long-term unem-ployment rate and the percentage of long-term unemployed changed in the same direc-tion as the number of unemployed and the total unemployment rate. The following groups of people had the smallest share in the long-term unemploy¬ed pool in the analysed period: under 25 years old as well as 55 years old and older, with post-secondary education, secondary education and university education. The following groups had the greatest share in the long-term unemployed pool: aged 25-34 and from 45 to 55 years old, with vocational education. The econometric analyses show that unmarried people aged 55 or more with a low level of education were at the greatest risk of suffering long-term unemployment in the analysed period. Young people with higher education and secondary education were the least likely to be long-term unemployed.