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2025-12-04 Varieties of domestic energy deprivation in private multi-apartment buildings. Insights from Poland, Portugal and Greece.

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Peggy Kaloumenou

This report presents a framework for measuring local exposure to energy poverty in municipalities and tests it using administrative data from different national contexts. The framework helps municipalities identify which buildings or small areas face the greatest risk of energy deprivation, addressing a common lack ...

2025-12-04 Stakeholders Engagement Strategies for Pilots

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Peggy Kaloumenou

Pedro Palma

Magdalena Wojtuch-Krasuska

Document sets out the strategic and operational framework for engaging key actors involved in addressing energy poverty in three pilot municipalities: Piraeus (Greece), Rumia (Poland), and Torres Vedras (Portugal). It outlines the importance, objectives, and expected outcomes of stakeholder engagement and explains how these activities ...

2025-11-24 Fostering Inclusion of Workers in Vulnerable Situations: Practices and Policies at Company-Level. Evidence from qualitative interviews in four countries: Norway, Germany, Romania, Poland

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Justyna Katarzyna Bell

Iuliana Precupetu

Elisabeth Ugreninov

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This working paper examines how company-level strategies intersect with national policy contexts to promote the inclusion of vulnerable workers across the three phases of employment: recruitment, career development, and retention. Using qualitative interviews with employers in Germany, Norway, Poland, and Romania, we explore how organisations ...

2025-11-21 New and changing risks oflabour marketattachment – the future of work

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Mateusz Krząkała

Iga Magda

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This working paper aims to deepen the understanding of the new factors associated with the risk of underemployment, unemployment and inactivity, while at the same time investigating the new dimensions of labour market vulnerability. The first part of the paper provides a descriptive analysis of ...

2025-10-20 Organizational Context of Ethnic Discrimination. Results from a Cross-National Survey Experiment.

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Using a vignette experiment conducted in Germany, Norway, Poland, and Romania, we analyze whether employers discriminate job candidates based on their origin. We focus on how organizational context and recruitment practices shape hiring decisions. The results show that candidates of foreign origin are invited to ...

2025-10-20 Understanding energy poverty at the local level and the role of multi-apartment buildings

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This report lays the conceptual foundation for addressing energy poverty in Europe, with particular attention to the challenges posed by private multi-apartment buildings (MABs). It reviews EU, national, and local policy frameworks, and highlights barriers such as poor building performance, fragmented ownership and decision-making, financing ...

2025-07-28 How context shapes care-based discrimination in hiring: evidence from a cross-national factorial survey experiment

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This study examines how the candidate’s partnership status and organizational context shapes care-based discrimination in hiring through a cross-national factorial survey experiment conducted in Germany, Norway, Poland, and Romania. Recruiters evaluated fictional job candidates with randomly varied characteristics including gender, partnership status, and parenthood. We ...

2025-07-07 Analysis of indicators and datasets for energy poverty assessment: The case of private multi-family buildings

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Pedro Palma

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This report aims to provide valuable insights for the municipalities of Piraeus (Greece), Rumia (Poland), and Torres Vedras (Portugal) to address energy poverty in private multi-apartment buildings within their territories, within the context of the LOCATEE project. It reviews 68 energy poverty assessment approaches published ...

2025-05-14 Impact of health and skills on the risk of weak labour market attachment

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Marta Palczyńska

Katarzyna Lipowska

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This study examines how skills use influences labor market attachment among individuals with health limitations using European Union Labour Force Survey data from 2022. Our analysis reveals that digital and social skills use significantly improve employment prospects within this population, while cognitive skills show a ...

2021-03-26 What works for whom? Youth labour market policy in Poland

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This paper compares the relative effectiveness of selected active labour market policies available to young unemployed people in Poland in the years 2015-2016. We use rich administrative data and propensity score matching techniques to control for the non-random selection of unemployed individuals into alternative interventions. ...

2021-03-26 Outreach activities of public employment services in Poland

authors:

Mateusz Smoter

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This publication was created as part of the “Youth Employment PartnerSHIP” project, which seeks to combat unemployment among young people. It measures the effectiveness of instruments to support young people who aren’t working or studying in four countries: Poland, Spain, Italy and Hungary. The project ...

2021-03-15 Counterfactual evaluation of youth employment policies. Methodological guide

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