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2023-10-09 Automation and income inequality in Europe

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We study the effects of robot penetration on household income inequality in 14 European countries between 2006–2018, a period marked by the rapid adoption of industrial robots. We establish that, similarly to the United States, automation reduced relative hourly wages and employment of directly affected ...

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. ...

2023-06-15 The employment effects of a wage subsidy for the young during an economic recovery

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This study investigates the employment effects of a large-scale wage subsidy programme for the young unemployed that was introduced in 2016, during a period of recovery in the Polish economy. The focus is on the question of whether the effects differed between men and women. ...

2023-04-27 How to Avoid Another Yellow Vests Movement? Evaluating Preferences for a Carbon Tax with a Discrete Choice Experiment.

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Climate policy can trigger tensions in divided societies with low trust. We examine public preferences for policies to achieve energy security and climate change mitigation goals in the context of the energy crisis caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. We conducted a discrete choice experiment ...

2023-04-06 What if she earns more? Gender norms, income inequality, and the division of housework.

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Marta Palczyńska

Iga Magda

Ewa Cukrowska-Torzewska

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Using data from the “Generation and Gender Survey” for Poland, we study the relationship between women’s relative income within the household, as measured by the female share of total household income, and women’s involvement in housework. We find that households in which the woman contributes ...

2023-01-27 The Employment Effects of the Disability Education Gap in Europe

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We investigate the role of education in creating employment opportunities for persons with disabilities across the European Union. We use the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) for 2011-2019. We find that educational attainment is a major factor determining the probability of ...

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 ...

2022-11-22 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 ...

2022-10-13 #IamLGBT: Social Networks and Coming Out

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Przemysław Siemaszko

Jan Gromadzki

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In recent decades, there has been a marked increase in the number of people disclosing their LGBTQ identity. We propose a model of a game on a network with social learning to investigate the role of peer effects in coming out with decisions. We use ...

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 ...

2022-09-12 The Impact of ICT and Robots on Labour Market Outcomes of Demographic Groups in Europe

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Piotr Lewandowski

Maciej Albinowski

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We study the age- and gender-specific labour market effects of two key modern technologies – Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), and robots – in 14 European countries between 2010-2018. To identify the causal effects of technology adoption, we utilize the variation of technology adoption between ...

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 ...