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2020-07-13 Consumer switching costs in a market with legal and pirate providers

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Despite a rich literature on switching costs in traditional markets, little has been said on the context of competition between pirate and legal providers. With a sizeable literature on the effects of piracy and its determinants, it is crucial to understand the specific barriers that ...

2020-07-02 Distributional effects of emission pricing in a carbon-intensive economy: the case of Poland

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Piotr Lewandowski

Marek Antosiewicz

Jan Witajewski-Baltvilks

J. Rodrigo Fuentes

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In this paper, we assess the distributional impact of introducing a carbon tax in Poland. We apply a two- step simulation procedure. First, we evaluate the economy-wide effects with a dynamic general equilibrium model. Second, we use a microsimulation model based on household budget survey ...

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 ...

2020-06-08 The gender dimension of occupational exposure to contagion in Europe

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We study the gender dimension of occupational exposure to contagious diseases spread by the respiratory or close-contact route. We show that in Europe, women are more exposed to contagion, as they are more likely than men to work in occupations that require contact with diseases, ...

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

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Piotr Lewandowski

Maciej Albinowski

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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 ...

2020-05-06 Overeducation and wages: the role of cognitive skills and personality traits

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Marta Palczyńska

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This article investigates the role of personality traits and cognitive skills as potential determinants of overeducation and in explaining overeducation wage penalty. Using a representative survey of the Polish working-age population, with well-established measures of cognitive skills and personality traits, I find that accounting for ...

2020-05-04 Occupational exposure to contagion and the spread of COVID-19 in Europe

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Piotr Lewandowski

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Social contacts are a key transmission channel of infectious diseases spread by the respiratory or close-contact route, such as COVID-19. There is no evidence, however, on the question of whether the nature and the organisation of work affect the spread of COVID-19 in different countries. ...

2020-03-17 Effects of piracy on the American comic book market and the role of digital formats

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Wojciech Hardy

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I would like to thank participants of the Institute for Structural Research – IBS and DELab UW internal seminars for their helpful comments. I would also like to thank Mateusz Godlewski for sharing his insights on the comic book market at the first stages of ...

2020-01-13 Short- and long-run dynamics of energy demand

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Marek Antosiewicz

Jan Witajewski-Baltvilks

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The timing of the response of CO2 emissions to a carbon tax depends crucially on the timing of response of energy demand of changes in energy prices. In this paper, we investigate the path of changing energy demand from the moment of a change in ...

2019-11-08 A comparison of Swiss, German and Polish fiscal rules using Monte Carlo simulations

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Michał Ramsza

Adam Pigoń

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Authors assess the economic implications of existing fiscal rules in Poland, Switzerland and Germany. In the analysis they establish economic relationships between output, government revenues and expenditures estimating a VAR model on US data for the years 1960-2015. Imposing fiscal policies implied by a given ...

2019-11-06 Trends in occupational segregation by gender in a post-communist country

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Jan Gromadzki

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The communist states promoted women’s participation in the labour market and encouraged women to enter male-dominated occupations, which should have resulted in relatively low levels of occupational segregation by gender. I show that after the transition to the market economy, the level of occupational segregation ...

2019-09-06 On the competitive effects of screening in procurement

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Gyula Seres

Adam Pigoń

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Procuring authorities frequently use screening in order to mitigate risky bids. This study estimates the effect of bid screening and litigation on entry and bidding using a unique data set on highway construction procurement auctions in Poland. The market exhibits a screening method that ex ...