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

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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

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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 ...

2015-03-19 Lower coverage but stronger unions? Institutional changes and union wage premia in central Europe

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In this paper Iga Magda (Warsaw School of Economics and Institute for Structural Research (IBS)), David Marsden (Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science) and Simone Moriconi (Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza, Università Cattolica di Milano and Centre for Research in ...

2015-03-16 Green, Pink & Silver? The Future of Labour in Europe

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Iga Magda

Agnieszka Kamińska

others

2015-02-26 The effects of minimum wage on a labour market with high temporary employment

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Piotr Lewandowski

Agnieszka Kamińska

working paper

In this paper, we use propensity score matching and a difference-in-differences estimator to study the impact of minimum wage hikes on labour market outcomes in Poland in 2002-2013. We focus on job separations, adjustments of hours worked, share of full-time jobs and of real wages. ...

2015-01-30 Uncertainty in the labour market: How does fixed-term employment affect fertility and mental health of the young generation?

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Wolfgang Auer

Natalia Danzer

working paper

Wolfgang Auer (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and Ifo Institute, Munich) and Natalia Danzer (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Ifo Institute, Munich, and IZA Bonn) study the short- to medium-run effects of starting a career on a fixed-term contract on fertility and health outcomes. We ...

2015-01-28 Youth unemployment and mental health: dominance approach. Evidence from Poland

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Martyna Kobus

Marcin Jakubek

working paper

Martyna Kobus (Institute of Economics of Polish Academy of Sciences) and Marcin Jakubek (Instytut Nauk Ekonomicznych PAN) present evidence on the relationship between mental health and unemployment among Polish youth. The literature establishes links between mental health and unemployment, but the evidence concerning youths is ...

2015-01-27 Crowding (out) the retirees? RDD application to raising effective retirement age in Poland

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Paweł Strzelecki

Joanna Tyrowicz

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As of 2007 increased labor force participation of the elderly has been observed in Poland. In 2009 a reform in the eligibility criteria narrowed the scope of early retirement opportunities for majority of the occupations. We rely on Polish LFS and employ regression discontinuity design ...

2015-01-21 In-Work Poverty in Poland: Diagnosis and Possible Remedies

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Piotr Lewandowski

Agnieszka Kamińska

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In this paper the authors analyze the evolution and the determinants of in-work poverty in Poland, according to three poverty lines: relative, absolute, and the 1998-adjusted poverty line. The authors find that behind moderately high in-work poverty incidence in Poland there is very high in-work ...

2015-01-15 Skill based labour demand and the wage growth of younger workers: Evidence from an unexpected pension reform

authors:

Alexander M. Danzer

working paper

Large-scale pension reforms can have redistributive wage effects across generations and education groups when the labour market suffers from skill mismatch. A quasi-experimental ‘retirement shock’ in Ukraine illustrates the effect of labour scarcity on wage growth and returns to education: it reveals that young and ...