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2016-04-04 Public finance in Poland – evolution, characteristics and perspectives

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The study is a description of public finance in Poland made by comparing the most important features of this sector in Poland and Central and Eastern European countries, European Union and OECD in the period 2004-2014. The following topics are discussed: scope of the public ...

2016-01-20 Energy poverty in Poland – buzzword or a real problem?

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Aleksander Szpor

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This publication presents the main arguments for the recognition of energy poverty as an important issue that deserves separate treatment in research and policies on poverty in general. For this purpose, references have been made to worldwide literature and to first definition, as well as ...

2015-01-20 Opening up opportunities: education reforms in Poland

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Maciej Jakubowski

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Poland is one of the few European countries that achieved strong improvement of student performance over the last decade. According to the OECD PISA results Poland moved from below to above the OECD average and now is close to top-performing countries. The score improvements are ...

2014-12-18 Computers at schools: it’s not enough to have them and it’s not enough to use them

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Maciej Jakubowski

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In this policy paper we discussed a broad range of topics covering student access to computers at home and school, different uses of computers for learning and the impact of ICT use on different groups of students. Introducing computers into schools generates both new opportunities ...

2014-12-17 Agricultural development and structural change

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Karol Pogorzelski

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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 ...

2014-11-20 Time for quality in vocational education

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Maciej Lis

Agata Miazga

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The aim of this text is to summarise the key changes in the situation of vocational education graduates on the labour market in the last 25 years in Poland. It presents the main changes in vocational education and the sources of the observed problems, while ...

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 ...

2014-06-06 Women on the European Labour Market

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Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak

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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 ...