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2020-05-04 Occupational exposure to contagion and the spread of COVID-19 in Europe

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Social contacts are a key transmission channel of infectious diseases spread by the respiratory or close-contact route, such as COVID-19. There is no evidence, however, on the question of whether the nature and the organisation of work affect the spread of COVID-19 in different countries. ...

2020-01-16 Increasing female labour force participation in Poland

authors:

Iga Magda

policy paper

I would like to thank Jan Rutkowski for his support in preparing the paper and all valuable remarks and Mateusz Smoter for his helpful comments. The content of this publication reflects the opinions of the author, which may diverge from the position of the Institute ...

2019-12-16 Not studying or working. A challenge for public policy?

authors:

Mateusz Smoter

policy paper

This publication was created as part of the “Youth Employment PartnerSHIP” project, which seeks to combat unemployment among young people. It measures the effectiveness of instruments to support young people who aren’t working or studying in four countries: Poland, Spain, Italy and Hungary. The project ...

2019-11-06 Trends in occupational segregation by gender in a post-communist country

authors:

Jan Gromadzki

working paper

The communist states promoted women’s participation in the labour market and encouraged women to enter male-dominated occupations, which should have resulted in relatively low levels of occupational segregation by gender. I show that after the transition to the market economy, the level of occupational segregation ...

2019-06-12 Gender Pay Gap Patterns in Domestic and Foreign-Owned Firms

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Katarzyna Sałach

Iga Magda

working paper

We investigate differences in gender wage gaps between foreign-owned and domestically-owned firms in Poland, a country that has experienced large FDI inflows over the past three decades. We show that according to standard estimates of adjusted gender wage gaps, these differences are much larger in ...

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

authors:

Jan Witajewski-Baltvilks

Daniel Kiewra

Aleksander Szpor

report

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

authors:

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?

authors:

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

authors:

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

authors:

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 ...