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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 ...

2022-11-28 The global divergence in the de-routinisation of jobs

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Simone Schotte

Piotr Lewandowski

Albert Park

We establish new stylised facts about the global evolution and distribution of routine and non-routine work, relaxing the common assumption that occupations are identical globally. We combine survey data and regression models to predict the country-specific routine-task intensity of occupations in 87 countries employing over ...

2022-11-22 Mapping the indirect employment of hard coal mining: a case study of Upper Silesia, Poland

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It is insufficient to calculate the number of jobs in the mining industry to determine the labour market effects of a coal phase-out. This paper estimates the scale of mining-related and mining-dependent jobs in Europe’s largest hard coal mining region: Upper Silesia. In addition, we ...

2022-09-28 Young women on the labour market in Hungary and Poland

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The gender employment gap between young, prime-age men and women in Poland and Hungary is large in comparison to that in other EU countries. This is mainly due to the low employment rates among women with young children who withdraw from the labour market due ...

2022-09-28 Mismatch in preferences for working from home – evidence from discrete choice experiments with workers and employers

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We study preferences for remote work using a large-scale discrete choice study with 10,000 workers and 1,500 employers in Poland. Workers value remote work more than employers. On average, workers are willing to sacrifice 2.9% of earnings for remote work, with hybrid work from home ...

2022-09-12 The Impact of ICT and Robots on Labour Market Outcomes of Demographic Groups in Europe

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Piotr Lewandowski

Maciej Albinowski

working paper

We study the age- and gender-specific labour market effects of two key modern technologies – Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), and robots – in 14 European countries between 2010-2018. To identify the causal effects of technology adoption, we utilize the variation of technology adoption between ...

2022-07-22 How PES strategies for reaching young NEETs can be improved?

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policy brief

The purpose of this policy brief is to call attention to the lack of outreach to vulnerable youth by focusing on the experiences of four European countries (Spain, Hungary, Italy, and Poland). We also show why the PES might not make sufficient efforts to incentivise ...

2022-07-06 Informing young unemployed people about support measures – does it work?

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Mateusz Smoter

report

We conducted a survey experiment in Poland to investigate how providing young people from the NEET group with information affected their rate of registration with the public employment services. The individuals assigned to the treatment group received information about the services offered by the PES. ...

2022-04-13 Working from home during a pandemic – a discrete choice experiment in Poland

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The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed working from home from a rarity to a widely adopted job amenity. We study workers’ willingness to pay for working from home, and how it may be affected by subjective and objective assessments of COVID-19-related risks. We conducted a discrete ...

2022-01-12 The impact of robots on labour market transitions in Europe.

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We study the effects of robot exposure on worker flows in 16 European countries between 1998-2017. Overall, we find small negative effects on job separations and small positive effects on job findings. Labour costs are shown to be a major driver of cross-country differences: the ...

2021-09-30 Flexibility of working time arrangements and female labor market outcome

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Katarzyna Lipowska

Iga Magda

working paper

We use data from 2019 EU LFS to study gender and parenthood gaps in flexibility in working time arrangements. We find that overall in Europe, there is no statistically significant gender difference in access to flexible work arrangements. However, women are less likely than men ...

2021-08-24 Labor supply effects of a universal cash transfer

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Jan Gromadzki

working paper

Unconditional cash transfers in the form of a universal basic income, a universal basic pension or a universal child benefit are increasingly being discussed in many countries. In this article, I investigate the labor supply effects of the introduction of a large unconditional cash benefit. ...