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2015-11-30 It’s cold inside – energy poverty in Poland

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The aim of this paper is to present a statistical measure of energy poverty in Poland. This is the first research for Poland which is strictly based on the methodology applied in the United Kingdom − the only country with a statutory definition of energy ...

2015-11-28 Can endogenous technology choices explain wage inequality dynamics?

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Jan Witajewski-Baltvilks

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The paper studies the dynamics of college wage premium across OECD countries. It reports that countries which experienced college wage premium growth higher than that of other countries also witnessed a higher growth of the skills supply ten years earlier. Regression results suggest that this ...

2015-08-30 What drives the labour wedge? A comparison between CEE countries and the Euro Area

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Małgorzata Skibińska

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We use a structural macroeconomic model with search and matching frictions on the labour market to analyse the differences in the business cycle fluctuations of the labour wedge between two CEE countries and the Euro Area. Our results indicate that the observed higher volatility of ...

2015-08-29 Red Herring in the Vistula River: Time-to-Death and Health Care Expenditure

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Maciej Lis

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The aim of the article is to quantify the role of time-to-death in shaping health care costs. By combining a detailed break-down of population-wide data on publicly financed health care expenditure with the population and mortality data we are able to estimate a flexible model ...

2015-08-27 The impact of antidumping on EU trade

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Jan Baran

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This paper investigates the impact of antidumping on EU trade. Compared to previous studies, this paper moves the time horizon of analysis forward, covering the period from 1992 to 2010. Information on antidumping investigations is taken from relatively new Global Antidumping Database. The theoretical model ...

2015-06-30 Who will be affected by rising energy prices? Map of energy expenditures of Poles

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Maciej Lis

Agata Miazga

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The need to satisfy the energy consumption needs in view of the rising energy prices will lead to reductions of other expenditure by some household groups. Data published by Eurostat indicate that energy prices in Poland, expressed in euros, are low, but in comparison to ...

2015-06-29 Do entrants take it all? The evolution of task content of jobs in Poland

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In this paper we analyse changes in the task content of jobs in Poland between 1996 and 2014. We follow the Autor, Levy & Murnane (2003) and Acemoglu and Autor (2011) approach using the O*NET 2003 and 2014 data and Polish LFS at 4-digit occupation ...

2015-05-31 Labour market segmentation and pensions in the Polish defined-contribution scheme

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In this paper we apply a cohort model of the pension scheme to analyse the impact of labour market segmentation, in particular the use of contracts on mandate, on expected retirement benefits in Poland. Heterogeneity of labour force and impact of differences in years of ...

2015-03-19 Lower coverage but stronger unions? Institutional changes and union wage premia in central Europe

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In this paper Iga Magda (Warsaw School of Economics and Institute for Structural Research (IBS)), David Marsden (Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science) and Simone Moriconi (Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza, Università Cattolica di Milano and Centre for Research in ...

2015-02-26 The effects of minimum wage on a labour market with high temporary employment

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Piotr Lewandowski

Agnieszka Kamińska

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In this paper, we use propensity score matching and a difference-in-differences estimator to study the impact of minimum wage hikes on labour market outcomes in Poland in 2002-2013. We focus on job separations, adjustments of hours worked, share of full-time jobs and of real wages. ...

2015-01-30 Uncertainty in the labour market: How does fixed-term employment affect fertility and mental health of the young generation?

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Wolfgang Auer

Natalia Danzer

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Wolfgang Auer (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and Ifo Institute, Munich) and Natalia Danzer (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Ifo Institute, Munich, and IZA Bonn) study the short- to medium-run effects of starting a career on a fixed-term contract on fertility and health outcomes. We ...

2015-01-29 What Drives the Increase in Health Care Costs with Age?

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Maciej Lis

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The aim of the article is to show the role of the drivers of health care costs increases with age. An innovative decomposition strategy has been proposed and applied to the population-wide data on health care expenditure in Poland. We have found that the health ...