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2017-01-20 Labour market segmentation and the financial situation of the pension system in Poland

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Since 2014 Poland is the country with the highest share of temporary workers in the EU. Civil law contracts, a type of temporary contracts, allow payment of lower retirement pension contributions than implied by employment contracts. We use a cohort pension model to quantify the ...

2016-06-20 A routine transition? Causes and consequences of the changing content of jobs in Central and Eastern Europe

authors:

Roma Keister

Piotr Lewandowski

policy paper

In this paper, we study the shift from manual to cognitive work in 10 economies of Central and Eastern Europe. We highlight the growth in the non-routine cognitive component of jobs, but pay particular attention to the increase in routine cognitive tasks, a trend that ...

2016-05-20 Business cycles and on the job search

authors:

Marek Antosiewicz

Jacek Suda

working paper

We study steady state and business cycle properties of a model with heterogeneous firms and on-the-job search in the spirit of Moscarini and Postel-Vinay (2012). We extend the setup by including capital in the production function and show how this change influences model properties. The ...

2016-05-19 On the job search and working capital

authors:

Jacek Suda

working paper

We study the steady-state effects of working capital channel on the distribution of wages and reallocation of workers across employers. We first show that in a simple Burdett-Mortensen on-the-job search model, working capital channel matter for wage offers distributions of firms and wage distribution of ...

2016-05-17 The Impact of the Support Offered to Young People under the Operational Programme Knowledge Education Development. The First Thematic Study

authors:

Iga Magda

Henryk Kalinowski

report

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 ...

2016-04-29 Inequality of opportunity in Central and Eastern Europe: accounting for changes over time

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Michał Brzeziński

Iga Magda

working paper

We study changes in income inequality and inequality of opportunity (IO) in seven Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. Using EU SILC 2005 and 2011 data, we make a first attempt to apply inequality decompositions based on RIF regression to the problem of changes in ...

2016-04-27 Minimum Wage Violation In Central And Eastern Europe

authors:

Piotr Lewandowski

Karolina Goraus

working paper

Minimum wages continue to be at the centre of the policy debates in both developed and emerging economies. Such policies can only be effective if (1) the existing regulatory system does not have gaps that allow for the payment of wages below the minimum wage, ...

2016-02-27 Technology Or Upskilling? Trends In The Task Composition Of Jobs In Central And Eastern Europe

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In this paper we analyse the changes in the task content of jobs in Central and Eastern European countries between 1998 and 2013. We link the O*NET data on occupational characteristics with EU-LFS, following the approach of Autor, Levy and Murnane (2003) as well as ...

2015-11-28 Can endogenous technology choices explain wage inequality dynamics?

authors:

Jan Witajewski-Baltvilks

working paper

The paper studies the dynamics of college wage premium across OECD countries. It reports that countries which experienced college wage premium growth higher than that of other countries also witnessed a higher growth of the skills supply ten years earlier. Regression results suggest that this ...

2015-08-30 What drives the labour wedge? A comparison between CEE countries and the Euro Area

authors:

Małgorzata Skibińska

working paper

We use a structural macroeconomic model with search and matching frictions on the labour market to analyse the differences in the business cycle fluctuations of the labour wedge between two CEE countries and the Euro Area. Our results indicate that the observed higher volatility of ...

2015-06-29 Do entrants take it all? The evolution of task content of jobs in Poland

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In this paper we analyse changes in the task content of jobs in Poland between 1996 and 2014. We follow the Autor, Levy & Murnane (2003) and Acemoglu and Autor (2011) approach using the O*NET 2003 and 2014 data and Polish LFS at 4-digit occupation ...

2015-05-31 Labour market segmentation and pensions in the Polish defined-contribution scheme

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In this paper we apply a cohort model of the pension scheme to analyse the impact of labour market segmentation, in particular the use of contracts on mandate, on expected retirement benefits in Poland. Heterogeneity of labour force and impact of differences in years of ...