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2017-03-28 Routine and ageing? The Intergenerational Divide In The Deroutinisation Of Jobs In Europe

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This paper analyses the age dimension of changes in the task composition of jobs in 12 European countries between 1998 and 2015. We use the approach proposed by Autor et al. (2003) and Acemoglu & Autor (2011), and combine O*NET occupation content data with EU-LFS ...

2017-01-24 Job retention among older workers in Central and Eastern Europe

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We study job retention rates – the shares of workers who continue to work in the same job over the next five years – in Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. Job retention among older workers is key to prolonging careers and increasing employment of older ...

2017-01-20 Labour market segmentation and the financial situation of the pension system in Poland

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Since 2014 Poland is the country with the highest share of temporary workers in the EU. Civil law contracts, a type of temporary contracts, allow payment of lower retirement pension contributions than implied by employment contracts. We use a cohort pension model to quantify the ...

2016-09-12 Heterogeneity of the fuel poor in Poland – quantification and policy implications

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Maciej Lis

Konstancja Ziółkowska (Święcicka)

Katarzyna Sałach

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The purpose of the paper is to quantify the heterogeneity of causes and symptoms of energy poverty in order to provide guidance for policies aimed at fuel poverty alleviation. We quantify the diversity of the households in Poland in terms of energy efficiency and income ...

2016-09-11 Location, location, location. What accounts for regional variation of fuel poverty in Poland?

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The aim of this paper is to explain the regional variation of fuel poverty in Poland. The significant spatial variation of fuel poverty stems from differences in the buildings’ characteristics, income and household composition as well as the diverse advancement of urbanisation processes. The variance ...

2016-05-20 Business cycles and on the job search

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Marek Antosiewicz

Jacek Suda

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We study steady state and business cycle properties of a model with heterogeneous firms and on-the-job search in the spirit of Moscarini and Postel-Vinay (2012). We extend the setup by including capital in the production function and show how this change influences model properties. The ...

2016-05-19 On the job search and working capital

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Jacek Suda

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We study the steady-state effects of working capital channel on the distribution of wages and reallocation of workers across employers. We first show that in a simple Burdett-Mortensen on-the-job search model, working capital channel matter for wage offers distributions of firms and wage distribution of ...

2016-04-29 Inequality of opportunity in Central and Eastern Europe: accounting for changes over time

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Michał Brzeziński

Iga Magda

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We study changes in income inequality and inequality of opportunity (IO) in seven Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. Using EU SILC 2005 and 2011 data, we make a first attempt to apply inequality decompositions based on RIF regression to the problem of changes in ...

2016-04-28 Age or time-to-death – what drives health care expenditures? Panel data evidence from the OECD countries

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Maciej Lis

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The most important engines for the growth of aggregate health care expenditures (HCE) in last 50 years in OECD have been growth of income, technological progress in medicine and their interaction with institutional setting. The accelerating ageing is expected to additionally fuel the growth of ...

2016-04-27 Minimum Wage Violation In Central And Eastern Europe

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Piotr Lewandowski

Karolina Goraus

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Minimum wages continue to be at the centre of the policy debates in both developed and emerging economies. Such policies can only be effective if (1) the existing regulatory system does not have gaps that allow for the payment of wages below the minimum wage, ...

2016-02-28 Input vs. output taxation – a DSGE approach to modelling resource decoupling

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Piotr Lewandowski

Marek Antosiewicz

Jan Witajewski-Baltvilks

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Environmental taxes are a crucial instrument aimed at reducing resource use through lower production losses, resource-leaner products and more resource-efficient production processes. In this paper we focus on material use and apply a multisector DSGE model to study two types of taxation: tax on material ...

2016-02-27 Technology Or Upskilling? Trends In The Task Composition Of Jobs In Central And Eastern Europe

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In this paper we analyse the changes in the task content of jobs in Central and Eastern European countries between 1998 and 2013. We link the O*NET data on occupational characteristics with EU-LFS, following the approach of Autor, Levy and Murnane (2003) as well as ...