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2019-07-10 Evaluating an old-age voluntary saving scheme under incomplete rationality
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We provide ex ante welfare, fiscal and general macroeconomic evaluation of the voluntary old-age saving scheme recently introduced in Poland (Pracownicze Plany Kapitałowe, Employees’ Capital Plans). ECPs provide tax redemptions as well as lump-sum transfers with the objective to foster old-age savings. Reduction in capital ...
2019-05-30 Just coal transition in the Silesia Region. Implications for the labour market
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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 ...
2018-11-17 The Impact of the Support Offered to Young People under the Operational Programme Knowledge Education Development. The Second Thematic Study
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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 ...
2018-05-29 The Impact of the Support Offered to Young People under the Operational Programme Knowledge Education Development. Third Report of Outcome Indicators Measurement
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This publication is the third of a planned series of five reports of outcome indicators measurements 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, ...
2017-09-29 Childhood circumstances, personality traits and adult-life economic outcomes in developing countries: Evidence from STEP
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This paper studies the associations between childhood circumstances (e.g. parental background, early-life socio-economic status, negative economic shocks during childhood, etc.), personality traits (the Big Five, grit) and adult-life economic outcomes (educational attainment, employment opportunity, wages, life satisfaction, and obesity) in nine developing countries. The data ...
2017-06-26 The Impact of the Support Offered to Young People under the Operational Programme Knowledge Education Development. Second Report of Outcome Indicators Measurement
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This publication is the second of a planned series of five reports of outcome indicators measurements 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 Economic Development, financed from ...
2016-05-17 The Impact of the Support Offered to Young People under the Operational Programme Knowledge Education Development. The First Thematic Study
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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 ...
2014-12-17 Agricultural development and structural change
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The paper advocates public support for the development of agriculture as a way to facilitate structural change in developing countries. In the first chapter we describe the global transformation in agriculture that has taken place over last few decades. Despite fast population growth, the growth ...
2011-12-01 Sticky wage Nash bargaing model with incomplete information
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We develop a novel method of introducing real wage rigidity into an otherwise standard search and matching model. Wages are constantly renegotiated through Nash wage bargaining, however negotiations are based on imperfect information regarding the productivity level and consequently marginal productivity. The imperfect information mechanism ...
2010-10-27 Large scale, multi-sector DSGE model as a climate policy assessment tool
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We assess the macroeconomic impact on Polish economy of the diversified package of about 120 different GHG mitigation levers, which were identified in the bottom-up sectoral analysis. For this purpose, we constructed a large scale, multi-sector dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model of Polish economy. ...
2010-06-22 A Note on Aggregation of Heterogeneous Expectations in a New Keynesian Economy
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This paper discusses conditions for aggregation of heterogeneous expectations in a new-keynesian economy. I show that aggregation result depends on the way agents form cross-expectations, i.e. expectations on other agents’ decision variables, and I determine a maximal class of cross-expectations operators that support aggregation. Interpretation ...
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