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2025-12-08 Refugees and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Ukrainians in Poland

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We examine business creation by Ukrainian refugees in Poland following the Russian invasion. We find that Ukrainians started 38,833 firms in 2022–23, accounting for 7% of all registrations. Our survey shows that 58% of post-invasion Ukrainian founders are refugees, and cross-county regressions show that a ...

2025-10-28 Relief or Retrofit? Designing ETS-2 Revenue Recycling to Reduce Energy Poverty in Poland

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Marek Antosiewicz

Jakub Sokołowski

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We examine how to design and sequence policy instruments to safeguard vulnerable households under rising carbon prices. We focus on the European Union’s new Emissions Trading System for buildings and transport (ETS-2) and the accompanying Social Climate Fund (SCF), which aim to reconcile climate ambition ...

2025-07-28 Between efficiency and democracy: Explaining support and resistance towards energy transition and prosumer solutions in Polish and Czech housing cooperatives

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Krzysztof Niedziałkowski

The decarbonisation of multi-family buildings is crucial for Europe’s energy transition, yet the role of collective forms of housing governance in this process remains poorly understood. This paper examines how institutional dynamics shape energy investments in Poland and Czechia. Using institutional theory and 61 semi-structured ...

2025-05-29 Working from Home and Job Satisfaction: A Mediating Effect of Organisational Culture

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Zuzanna Kowalik

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The widespread shift to remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated a debate on its impact on employee satisfaction. Despite assumptions that greater flexibility and autonomy would inherently boost job satisfaction, research findings have been inconsistent. A key mechanism that might help explain these mixed ...

2025-03-31 Peer effects and inequalities in technology uptake. Evidence from a large-scale subsidy programme

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The success of energy transition in addressing climate change depends on several factors, including the affordability of new technologies and the influence of peers within communities. However, concerns about affordability raise questions about how economic inequalities shape peer effects and whether they create barriers to ...

2025-03-28 Workers’ exposure to AI across development

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This paper develops a task-adjusted, country-specific measure of workers’ exposure to Artificial Intelligence (AI) across 108 countries. Building on Felten et al. (2021), we adapt the Artificial Intelligence Occupational Exposure (AIOE) index to worker-level PIAAC data and extend it globally using comparable surveys and regression-based ...

2025-03-07 The effects of automation on workers’ wages

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Karol Madoń

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This study examines the impact of automation on workers' wages across 20 European countries between 2010–2018. Overall, it identifies a net positive effect of robot adoption on average wages at the sectoral level, especially pronounced among routine manual and nonroutine manual occupations. Importantly, these effects ...

2025-03-07 The relationship between Artificial Intelligence (AI) exposure and return to education

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Karol Madoń

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This paper studies the relationship between exposure to artificial intelligence (AI) and workers’ wages across European countries. Overall, a positive relationship between exposure to AI and workers’ wages is found, however it differs considerably between workers and countries. High-skilled workers experience far higher wage premiums ...

2025-03-06 The Role of Job Task Routinization in Shaping Return Intentions: Evidence from Ukrainian War Refugees in Poland

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This paper studies how job task routinization shapes return intentions of Ukrainian war refugees in Poland following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Using two waves of nationwide survey data from 2022 and 2023 with worker-level measures of job tasks, we document widespread occupational ...

2024-12-17 Energy commons during crisis: Understanding housing cooperative strategies through dramaturgical sociology

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The importance of energy as a common good becomes especially pronounced during crises. This paper reconstructs the response of housing cooperatives – a specific type of energy community – to the energy crisis. To this end, we apply eighteen impression management strategies inspired by Erving ...

2024-11-04 Universal Child Benefit and Child Poverty: The Role of Fertility Adjustments

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Jan Gromadzki

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I study fertility adjustments after the introduction of a large universal child benefit in Poland. The program caused a six percent increase in the number of births. Patterns of selection into parenthood changed significantly and persistently, with a weakening of positive selection based on education ...

2024-09-10 Automation, Trade Unions and Involuntary Atypical Employment

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Wojciech Szymczak

Piotr Lewandowski

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We study the effect of the adoption of automation technologies – industrial robots, software and databases – on the incidence of atypical employment in 13 E.U. countries between 2006 and 2018. We combine survey microdata with sectoral information on technology use and exploit the variation ...