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

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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 ...

2019-07-18 Measuring energy poverty in Poland with the Multidimensional Energy Poverty Index

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Energy poverty is a complex problem that is generally caused by having a low income, having high energy costs, and/or living in a home with low energy efficiency. Various indicators capture these factors, but there is no consensus among researchers on which is the best ...

2019-07-10 Evaluating an old-age voluntary saving scheme under incomplete rationality

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Artur Rutkowski

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We provide ex ante welfare, fiscal and general macroeconomic evaluation of the voluntary old-age saving scheme recently introduced in Poland (Pracownicze Plany Kapitałowe, Employees’ Capital Plans). ECPs provide tax redemptions as well as lump-sum transfers with the objective to foster old-age savings. Reduction in capital ...

2019-06-12 Gender Pay Gap Patterns in Domestic and Foreign-Owned Firms

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Katarzyna Sałach

Iga Magda

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We investigate differences in gender wage gaps between foreign-owned and domestically-owned firms in Poland, a country that has experienced large FDI inflows over the past three decades. We show that according to standard estimates of adjusted gender wage gaps, these differences are much larger in ...

2019-04-23 Technology, Skills, and Globalization: Explaining International Differences in Routine and Nonroutine Work Using Survey Data

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The shift away from manual and routine cognitive work, and towards non-routine cognitive work is a key feature of labor markets. There is no evidence, however, if the relative importance of various tasks differs between workers performing seemingly similar jobs in different countries. We develop ...

2019-03-05 Firms and wage inequality in Central and Eastern Europe

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Recent studies show that firms are playing an increasingly important role in shaping wage inequality in advanced economies. We contribute to this literature by analysing wage inequality patterns and their firm dimension in Central and Eastern European countries. We use large, linked employer-employee datasets with ...

2019-02-18 The Added Worker Effect, Employment Contracts, and the Reasons for the Wife’s Inactivity

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Jan Gromadzki

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The recent literature provide compelling evidence of the existence of a significant added worker effect (AWE) - wives increase their labour supply in response to the job displacement of their husbands. However, little is known about the heterogeneity of the effect. I study the variation ...

2019-01-31 Gender wage gap in the workplace: Does the age of the firm matter?

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Iga Magda

Ewa Cukrowska-Torzewska

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We contribute to the literature on firm-level determinants of gender wage inequalities by studying the link between a firm’s age and the size of its gender pay gap. Using European Structure of Earnings data for eight European countries, we find that in all of these ...

2018-12-31 Green Innovation And Economic Growth In A North-South Model

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Jan Witajewski-Baltvilks

Carolyn Fischer

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If one region of the world switches its research effort from dirty to clean technologies, will other regions follow? To investigate this question we built a North-South model that combines insights from directed technological change and quality ladder endogenous growth models. We allow researchers in ...

2018-12-19 Wage premia for skills: The complementarity of cognitive and non-cognitive skills

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Marta Palczyńska

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This paper provides evidence on the association between individuals' cognitive abilities, personality traits, and earnings. I find that cognitive skills and certain personality traits are complements. In particular, I find that cognitive skills and emotional stability are complementary, with neurotic individuals having significantly lower returns ...

2018-12-12 Do female managers help to lower within-firm gender pay gaps? Public institutions vs. private enterprises

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Iga Magda

Ewa Cukrowska-Torzewska

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We analyse the link between the presence of female managers and the size of the firm-level gender pay gap. We look separately at the private and public sector, basing on a large linked employer-employee dataset for Poland. Using a non-parametric and parametric decompositions, we find ...

2018-09-26 Green Growth and Taste Heterogeneity

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Jan Witajewski-Baltvilks

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The recent contributions in directed technological change theory show that technological progress in clean industries (i.e. industries which do no produce CO2 emissions) lead to emission decline only if clean and dirty goods are sufficiently substitutable. The result raises a question whether a government could ...