Archiwa J21 - IBS - Instytut Badań Strukturalnych

2023-10-02 Housing cooperatives facing the energy transition. Insights from Poland and Czechia

authors:

Wojciech Bełch

This study constitutes preliminary analytical material concerning the adaptative capacity of housing cooperatives to accommodate energy transition in Poland and Czechia. This report comprehensively utilises administrative data from Polish and Czech national registers for the first time. These data have been employed to (1) compare ...

2023-06-28 The role of Global Value Chains for worker tasks and wage inequality

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This paper studies the relationship between global value chain (GVC) participation, worker-level routine task intensity, and wage inequality within countries. Using unique survey data from 38 countries, we find that higher GVC participation is associated with more routine-intensive work, especially among workers in offshorable occupations. ...

2023-05-24 Distributional effects of carbon pricing in Poland

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The report aims to indicate the potential effects of climate policy and point out mechanisms to reduce inequalities caused by increased energy prices. Based on the macroeconomic model and microsimulation, we present the effects of carbon pricing and its consequences for economic sectors and households ...

2022-12-08 Job quality gaps between migrant and native gig workers: evidence from Poland

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The gig economy has grown worldwide, opening labour markets but raising concerns about precariousness. Using a tailored, quantitative survey in Poland, we study taxi and delivery platform drivers' working conditions and job quality. We focus on the gaps between natives and migrants, who constitute about ...

2022-11-28 The global divergence in the de-routinisation of jobs

authors:

Simone Schotte

Piotr Lewandowski

Albert Park

We establish new stylised facts about the global evolution and distribution of routine and non-routine work, relaxing the common assumption that occupations are identical globally. We combine survey data and regression models to predict the country-specific routine-task intensity of occupations in 87 countries employing over ...

2022-11-22 Mapping the indirect employment of hard coal mining: a case study of Upper Silesia, Poland

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It is insufficient to calculate the number of jobs in the mining industry to determine the labour market effects of a coal phase-out. This paper estimates the scale of mining-related and mining-dependent jobs in Europe’s largest hard coal mining region: Upper Silesia. In addition, we ...

2022-09-28 Mismatch in preferences for working from home – evidence from discrete choice experiments with workers and employers

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We study preferences for remote work using a large-scale discrete choice study with 10,000 workers and 1,500 employers in Poland. Workers value remote work more than employers. On average, workers are willing to sacrifice 2.9% of earnings for remote work, with hybrid work from home ...

2022-04-13 Working from home during a pandemic – a discrete choice experiment in Poland

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The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed working from home from a rarity to a widely adopted job amenity. We study workers’ willingness to pay for working from home, and how it may be affected by subjective and objective assessments of COVID-19-related risks. We conducted a discrete ...

2021-08-24 Labor supply effects of a universal cash transfer

authors:

Jan Gromadzki

working paper

Unconditional cash transfers in the form of a universal basic income, a universal basic pension or a universal child benefit are increasingly being discussed in many countries. In this article, I investigate the labor supply effects of the introduction of a large unconditional cash benefit. ...

2021-06-17 The coal phase-out and the labour market transition pathways: the case of Poland

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We study the labour market transition pathways driven by the coal phase-out in Poland between 1990 and 2050. First, we apply the concept of branching points to describe the transformation of coal mining in the context of three labour market trends: structural changes, demographically driven ...

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 ...

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

authors:

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 ...