Zuzanna Kowalik

researcher

A graduate of sociology at the University of Warsaw and economics at the Warsaw School of Economics. Holder of the scholarship of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Her academic interests focus on the labour market, sociology of work and socio-economic inequalities. She is also interested in architecture and urban studies. In her free time, she likes reading, doing yoga and going to music festivals.

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ESA 2024 – Tension, Trust and Transformation

conference

2024-09-04

Zuzanna Kowalik recently participated in the European Sociological Association’s conference, "Tension, Trust and Transformation," held in Porto from August 27 to August 30, 2024. This event brought together scholars to explore the complex dynamics influencing contemporary social transformations.

Peer Review on ‘Legislative and enforcement approaches to address psychosocial risks at work in the Member States’

conference

2024-07-01

On June 26-27, Zuzanna Kowalik participated in an event aimed at comparing the legislative practices of European Union countries in terms of their approach to psychosocial risks.

ABSL – IBS presents the results of a survey of business service centre employees

conference

2024-06-20

In June, Zuzanna Kowalik and Piotr Lewandowski took part in an event organized by the Association of Business Service Leaders (ABSL). This

Labour demand and technology – WELAR project workshop in Warsaw

workshop

2024-04-25

The one-day WELAR workshop brought together labour market economists from European universities and research institutes to discuss and reflect on ten papers on the impacts of AI, green transition and migration on labour demand.

42nd International Labour Process Conference

conference, conference

2024-04-10

From April 2nd to 5th, Zuzanna Kowalik was an active participant in the International Labour Process Conference held in Göttingen, Germany.

Untangled Final Conference

conference

2023-11-30

The conference took place in Leuven on 23 October 2023. Researchers originating from over 15 institutions presented the results of about 30 research papers. Zuzanna Kowalik and Karol Madoń represented IBS.

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Publications

2023-12-18 Automation In Shared Service Centres: Implications For Skills And Autonomy In A Global Organisation

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The offshoring-fuelled growth of the Central and Eastern European business services sector gave rise to shared service centres (SSCs), quasi-autonomous entities providing routine-intensive tasks for the central organisation. The advent of technologies like Intelligent Process Automation, Robotic Process Automation, and Artificial Intelligence jeopardises SSCs’ employment ...

2022-12-08 Job quality gaps between migrant and native gig workers: evidence from Poland

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The gig economy has grown worldwide, opening labour markets but raising concerns about precariousness. Using a tailored, quantitative survey in Poland, we study taxi and delivery platform drivers' working conditions and job quality. We focus on the gaps between natives and migrants, who constitute about ...

2020-09-28 The gender gap in aversion to COVID-19 exposure: evidence from professional tennis

Authors:

Zuzanna Kowalik

Piotr Lewandowski

working paper

We study the gender differences in aversion to COVID-19 exposure. We use a natural experiment of the 2020 US Open which was organised in the country with the highest number of COVID-19 cases and deaths and was the first major professional tennis tournament after the ...

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Projects

SkiLMeeT – Skills for labour markets in the green and digital transition

The project "SkiLMeeT: Skills for labour markets in the green and digital transition" aims to produce sound indicators that help better understand the extent of skills mismatches and shortages on the European labour market.

GDPoweR – Recovering workers’ data to negotiate and monitor collective agreements in the platform economy

The GDPoweR project aims to bolster industrial relations in the platform economy by analysing strategies used by platform workers, activists, trade unionists, and employer groups in negotiating pay and conditions.

The relationship between working from home, job quality and psychological well-being

The project aims to explore the links between working from home, job quality and psychological well-being.

WeLaR – Welfare systems and labour market policies for economic and social resilience in Europe

The project aims to present proposals for creating social welfare and labour market policies that will respond to the changes taking place under the influence of megatrends - digitisation, globalisation, climate change and demographic change - in labour markets and welfare state systems in Europe.

Untangled

Our goal in UNTANGLED is to examine the impact of globalisation, technological transformations and demographic change on labour markets in the European Union, and to recommend policies that will contribute to shared prosperity.

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