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2019-05-30 Just coal transition in the Silesia Region. Implications for the labour market

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The role of hard coal in the economy of the Silesian voivodship will continue to decrease. Decarbonisation will entail far-reaching economic and social changes. IBS research (Witajewski-Baltvilks et al. 2018) shows that according to the scenario of an ambitious climate policy, the number of miners ...

2019-04-23 Technology, Skills, and Globalization: Explaining International Differences in Routine and Nonroutine Work Using Survey Data

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The shift away from manual and routine cognitive work, and towards non-routine cognitive work is a key feature of labor markets. There is no evidence, however, if the relative importance of various tasks differs between workers performing seemingly similar jobs in different countries. We develop ...

2019-03-05 Firms and wage inequality in Central and Eastern Europe

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Recent studies show that firms are playing an increasingly important role in shaping wage inequality in advanced economies. We contribute to this literature by analysing wage inequality patterns and their firm dimension in Central and Eastern European countries. We use large, linked employer-employee datasets with ...

2019-02-18 The Added Worker Effect, Employment Contracts, and the Reasons for the Wife’s Inactivity

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Jan Gromadzki

working paper

The recent literature provide compelling evidence of the existence of a significant added worker effect (AWE) - wives increase their labour supply in response to the job displacement of their husbands. However, little is known about the heterogeneity of the effect. I study the variation ...

2019-01-31 Gender wage gap in the workplace: Does the age of the firm matter?

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Iga Magda

Ewa Cukrowska-Torzewska

working paper

We contribute to the literature on firm-level determinants of gender wage inequalities by studying the link between a firm’s age and the size of its gender pay gap. Using European Structure of Earnings data for eight European countries, we find that in all of these ...

2018-12-19 Wage premia for skills: The complementarity of cognitive and non-cognitive skills

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Marta Palczyńska

working paper

This paper provides evidence on the association between individuals' cognitive abilities, personality traits, and earnings. I find that cognitive skills and certain personality traits are complements. In particular, I find that cognitive skills and emotional stability are complementary, with neurotic individuals having significantly lower returns ...

2018-12-12 Do female managers help to lower within-firm gender pay gaps? Public institutions vs. private enterprises

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Iga Magda

Ewa Cukrowska-Torzewska

working paper

We analyse the link between the presence of female managers and the size of the firm-level gender pay gap. We look separately at the private and public sector, basing on a large linked employer-employee dataset for Poland. Using a non-parametric and parametric decompositions, we find ...

2018-11-17 The Impact of the Support Offered to Young People under the Operational Programme Knowledge Education Development. The Second Thematic Study

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This report was published under the project “Evaluation of support provided for young people under the Operational Programme Knowledge Education Development (OP KED)” commissioned by the Polish Ministry of Investment and Economic Development, financed from the European Social Fund. The project is realised by the ...

2018-10-25 Managing coal sector transition under the ambitious emission reduction scenario in Poland. Focus on labour

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Piotr Lewandowski

Marek Antosiewicz

Jan Witajewski-Baltvilks

Jan Baran

Aleksander Szpor

report

This report presents the main economic facts on the role of coal in the Polish economy, and analyses the implications of the transition away from coal for coal consumption and coal mining employment in Poland. Poland’s energy mix relies on coal, most of which is ...

2018-10-23 Prospects of green growth in coal-dependent regions of Poland. Macroeconomic analysis of Śląskie Voivodeship and Konin Subregion

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Jan Witajewski-Baltvilks

Jakub Sawulski

report

The purpose of this report is to identify potential engines of economic growth in two regions of Poland: Śląskie Voivodeship and Konin Subregion. Currently, the economy in both regions is largely dependent on coal mining. A likely drop in demand for coal due to the ...

2018-06-25 How does technology change the nature of work? Poland vs. the EU

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Piotr Lewandowski

policy paper

*I would like to express my gratitude to Wojciech Hardy for his help in preparing the diagrams and collaboration in writing scientific articles which were the starting point for this paper. I would also like to thank Roma Keister and Szymon Górka for collaboration in ...

2018-05-29 The Impact of the Support Offered to Young People under the Operational Programme Knowledge Education Development. Third Report of Outcome Indicators Measurement

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This publication is the third of a planned series of five reports of outcome indicators measurements under the project “Evaluation of support provided for young people under the Operational Programme Knowledge Education Development (OP KED)” commissioned by the Polish Ministry of Investment and Economic Development, ...