Size, Structure and Degree of Diversification of the Economic Base of the Small Mono-Functional Towns of the Podkarpackie Province

The article presents the changes in size, structure and degree of diversification of the economic base in relation to the changes in the total number of working people (including employees of micro-businesses) in small mono-functional towns of the Podkarpackie Province in the years 1999-2009. The small mono-functional towns are assumed to be those which, before the transformation of the economic system in Poland, were specialized industrial towns with population in 2009 not exceeding 20 thousand. Pursuant to said assumptions, there was conducted an analysis of seven towns of the Podkarpackie Province: Nowa Dęba, Sędziszów Małopolski, Nowa Sarzyna, Jedlicze, Zagórz, Rymanów and Kańczuga. This allowed for determining of present-day functions of the previously mono-industrial towns