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2015-01-28 Youth unemployment and mental health: dominance approach. Evidence from Poland

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Martyna Kobus (Institute of Economics of Polish Academy of Sciences) and Marcin Jakubek (Instytut Nauk Ekonomicznych PAN) present evidence on the relationship between mental health and unemployment among Polish youth. The literature establishes links between mental health and unemployment, but the evidence concerning youths is ...

2015-01-27 Crowding (out) the retirees? RDD application to raising effective retirement age in Poland

authors:

Paweł Strzelecki

Joanna Tyrowicz

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As of 2007 increased labor force participation of the elderly has been observed in Poland. In 2009 a reform in the eligibility criteria narrowed the scope of early retirement opportunities for majority of the occupations. We rely on Polish LFS and employ regression discontinuity design ...

2015-01-15 Skill based labour demand and the wage growth of younger workers: Evidence from an unexpected pension reform

authors:

Alexander M. Danzer

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Large-scale pension reforms can have redistributive wage effects across generations and education groups when the labour market suffers from skill mismatch. A quasi-experimental ‘retirement shock’ in Ukraine illustrates the effect of labour scarcity on wage growth and returns to education: it reveals that young and ...

2015-01-13 Intergenerational educational mobility and completed fertility

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Zuzanna Brzozowska

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This paper investigates the role of intergenerational social mobility in completed fertility of women born between 1948 and 1972 in Poland. It examines the hypothesis of acculturation, which implies that fertility of the mobiles will be in between that seen in their parents’ (origin) and ...

2014-08-04 Does flexible employment pay? European evidence on the wage perspectives of female workers

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Monika Potoczna

Iga Magda

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The aim of this paper is to explore three issues relating to the financial dimension of female labour market outcomes. Firstly we analyze the gender pay differentials, adding to the existing literature an age - and distribution specific gender pay gaps. Next, we investigate the ...

2014-06-06 Health, productivity and ageing

authors:

Maciej Lis

Iga Magda

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In this paper we provide a comparative cross-country analysis of individual age-wage profiles for different health statuses. Using semi-parametric regressions run on EU-SILC data we aim at answering the question on the relationship between individual health and productivity and its changes in the life cycle, ...

2014-05-16 What if you were German? – DSGE approach to the Great Recession on labour markets

authors:

Piotr Lewandowski

Marek Antosiewicz

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In this paper we utilize an open economy DSGE model to analyse factors behind the Great Recession and its transmission into labour markets of selected Southern European countries. We introduce a number of shocks which form potential sources of macroeconomic disturbances, in particular: foreign demand, ...

2014-01-08 Women as a potential of the European labour force

authors:

Iga Magda

Agnieszka Kamińska

Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak

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The aim of this paper is to investigate the problems and the best solutions to the challenge of increasing women's participation on the European labour market, to alleviate the consequences of the demographic changes and maintain the European welfare state. We intentionally focus on women's ...

2013-09-26 Does gender matter for lifelong learning activity?

authors:

Maciej Lis

Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak

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Development and maintaining skills in a life course through various lifelong learning activities is crucial to sustain employability, particularly in the context of longer working lives and more competitive economic environment. In the paper we investigate the determinants and obstacles in lifelong learning from a ...

2013-09-24 Female transition to retirement

authors:

Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak

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The European countries’ policies related to female participation in the labour market as well as approach to retirement ages have evolved in the course of the past two decades. This is the response to demographic, social and economic developments in Europe. After many decades of ...

2013-09-23 Gender dimension of the labour markets over the past two decades

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Position of females on the European labour market has improved strongly over the past two decades. Changes in women’s employment were not only positive, but also managed to alleviate the negative developments in male employment rates, becoming thus a major driving force behind the efforts ...

2010-10-27 Large scale, multi-sector DSGE model as a climate policy assessment tool

authors:

Paweł Kowal

Maciej Bukowski

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We assess the macroeconomic impact on Polish economy of the diversified package of about 120 different GHG mitigation levers, which were identified in the bottom-up sectoral analysis. For this purpose, we constructed a large scale, multi-sector dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model of Polish economy. ...