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

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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 ...

2015-01-13 Intergenerational educational mobility and completed fertility

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Zuzanna Brzozowska

working paper

This paper investigates the role of intergenerational social mobility in completed fertility of women born between 1948 and 1972 in Poland. It examines the hypothesis of acculturation, which implies that fertility of the mobiles will be in between that seen in their parents’ (origin) and ...

2014-11-25 Employment in Poland 2013 – Labour in the Age of Structural Change

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2014-10-20 Dual labour markets, minimum wage and inequalities

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This brief is a summary of the „2014 Conference on dual labour markets, minimum wage and inequalities” which took place in Warsaw. It briefly discusses the main causes of labour market duality in the developed countries, consequences of duality and some of the policy implications ...

2014-08-04 Does flexible employment pay? European evidence on the wage perspectives of female workers

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Monika Potoczna

Iga Magda

working paper

The aim of this paper is to explore three issues relating to the financial dimension of female labour market outcomes. Firstly we analyze the gender pay differentials, adding to the existing literature an age - and distribution specific gender pay gaps. Next, we investigate the ...

2014-06-06 Women on the European Labour Market

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Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak

policy paper

2014-06-06 Health, productivity and ageing

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Maciej Lis

Iga Magda

working paper

In this paper we provide a comparative cross-country analysis of individual age-wage profiles for different health statuses. Using semi-parametric regressions run on EU-SILC data we aim at answering the question on the relationship between individual health and productivity and its changes in the life cycle, ...

2014-05-20 Dual labour market in Poland – proposals for overcoming the deadlock

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The report discusses the phenomenon of dual labour market, which in Poland involves abuse of the possibility to hire employees under civil law contracts. The report also presents solutions aimed at curbing this phenomenon. We propose introducing a so-called single contract, adapted to the Polish ...

2014-05-16 What if you were German? – DSGE approach to the Great Recession on labour markets

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Piotr Lewandowski

Marek Antosiewicz

working paper

In this paper we utilize an open economy DSGE model to analyse factors behind the Great Recession and its transmission into labour markets of selected Southern European countries. We introduce a number of shocks which form potential sources of macroeconomic disturbances, in particular: foreign demand, ...

2014-01-08 Women as a potential of the European labour force

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Iga Magda

Agnieszka Kamińska

Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak

working paper

The aim of this paper is to investigate the problems and the best solutions to the challenge of increasing women's participation on the European labour market, to alleviate the consequences of the demographic changes and maintain the European welfare state. We intentionally focus on women's ...

2013-10-27 Employment in Poland 2012 – Labour market during the recovery from the crisis

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2013-09-23 Gender dimension of the labour markets over the past two decades

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Position of females on the European labour market has improved strongly over the past two decades. Changes in women’s employment were not only positive, but also managed to alleviate the negative developments in male employment rates, becoming thus a major driving force behind the efforts ...