The government of Poland is right to try to increase minimum wage coverage of workers, but its proposal how to do it has several drawbacks which can hurt jobs.
The draft Polish budget for 2016 was prepared in unusual conditions. It was originally adopted in September 2015 by the coalition government of the Civic Platform (PO) and the Polish People’s Party (PSL). When Law and Justice (PiS) seized power, a new draft budget was prepared, yet in many respects it was similar to the draft made by the previous coalition government.
Conference on jobs and development took place on December 3-4 in New Delhi with a focus on labour regulations, informality, demography and job creation in South Asia.
Conference on urbanization, structural change, and employment took place in Hong Kong on December 11-13 as a part of the Network on Jobs and Development activities.
In majority of CEE countries, trade union membership declined sharply after the economic transition.
IBS seminar about newest results of the research about energy poverty in Poland. Phenomenon had concerned 6.4 million people in 2013.
A workshop on matters such as urbanisation and labour regulations, in the particular context of labour markets in SubSaharan Africa, took place in Cape Town.
On 24th of November 2015 at the Institute for Structural Research took place a seminar about the fiscal transparency. The meeting was organized by Centre for Eastern Studies within the project „V4 Civil Servants Mobility Program – Focus Ukraine”.
The conference proved its international character and provided a unique opportunity in Poland to learn about and discuss recent research on a range of issues touching upon labour, technology, education, regulations and inequalities.
In the World Bank videoblog Piotr Lewandowski explains how the nature of jobs in Poland had changed since the economic transition.
