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2021-02-16 Evaluation of internship contract in Spain

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The internship contract (IC) was originally designed to promote an appropriate employment transition for young people with higher education from their formative years to their working lives. Employers are supposed to invest in human capital and, in correspondence, they can benefit from lower wages and ...

2021-02-10 Can a short-term job trial programme kick-start young jobseekers’ career?

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In this paper, we perform a counterfactual evaluation of a publicly funded short-term hiring subsidy designed for young jobseekers in Hungary: namely, the 90-day job trial programme, which was introduced in 2015 a part of the Youth Guarantee scheme. The analysis is based on a ...

2021-02-02 Counterfactual impact evaluation of hiring incentives and EPL reduction on youth employment in Italy

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This study uses a counterfactual approach based on administrative registry data to evaluate the impact on youth employment of two selected demand-side public policies implemented in Italy in 2015: a rebate of social security costs (Law 190/2014, art. 1, c. 118) and a reduction in ...

2020-09-25 First estimates of the effects of COVID19 on young workers in Italy

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Italy has been among the first European countries to experience a widespread diffusion of the virus. With the aim of reducing the pressure on the overloaded healthcare system, several measures have been put in place under the guiding principle of social distancing to reduce individuals’ ...

2020-06-17 The global distribution of routine and non-routine work

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Studies of the effects of technology and globalization on employment and inequality commonly assume that occupations are identical around the world in the job tasks they require. To relax this assumption, we develop a regression-based methodology to predict the country-specific routine task intensity (RTI) of ...

2020-06-08 The gender dimension of occupational exposure to contagion in Europe

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We study the gender dimension of occupational exposure to contagious diseases spread by the respiratory or close-contact route. We show that in Europe, women are more exposed to contagion, as they are more likely than men to work in occupations that require contact with diseases, ...

2020-06-03 The heterogenous regional effects of minimum wages in Poland

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Piotr Lewandowski

Maciej Albinowski

working paper

Since 2008, Poland has been among the EU countries that have increased their minimum wage levels the most, following period in the mid-2000s during which the country’s minimum wage was barely raised. We evaluate the impact of these minimum wage hikes on employment and wage ...

2020-05-17 The Impact of the Support Offered to Young People under the Operational Programme Knowledge Education Development. The Final Report

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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 ...

2020-05-06 Overeducation and wages: the role of cognitive skills and personality traits

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Marta Palczyńska

working paper

This article investigates the role of personality traits and cognitive skills as potential determinants of overeducation and in explaining overeducation wage penalty. Using a representative survey of the Polish working-age population, with well-established measures of cognitive skills and personality traits, I find that accounting for ...

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

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Piotr Lewandowski

working paper

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

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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?

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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 ...