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

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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?

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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

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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

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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. ...

2010-06-22 A Note on Aggregation of Heterogeneous Expectations in a New Keynesian Economy

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Grzegorz Koloch

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This paper discusses conditions for aggregation of heterogeneous expectations in a new-keynesian economy. I show that aggregation result depends on the way agents form cross-expectations, i.e. expectations on other agents’ decision variables, and I determine a maximal class of cross-expectations operators that support aggregation. Interpretation ...

2010-01-04 Trusting Only Whom You Know, Knowing Only Whom You Trust: The Joint Impact of Social Capital and Trust on Individuals’ Economic Performance and Well-Being in CEE Countries

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Katarzyna Growiec

Jakub Growiec

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This paper provides evidence that bridging and bonding social capital as well as social trust may interdependently aﬀect individuals’ earnings and subjective well-being. Based on cross-sectional World Values Survey 2000 data on individuals from Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs), we show that majority of ...

2009-12-22 Social Capital, Trust, and Multiple Equilibria in Economic Performance

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Katarzyna Growiec

Jakub Growiec

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We propose a novel mechanism giving rise to poverty traps and multiple equilibria in economic performance. It is a potentially important source of persistent underdevelopment across countries and regions. At the core of this mechanism, bridging social capital and social trust feed back on each ...

2009-05-31 Decomposing productivity growth in OECD countries: domestic R&D vs. international technology diffusion

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This paper decomposes productivity growth across highly developed OECD countries in the period 1972-2000 into components attributable to domestic R&D output, a catch-up effect, and international technology diffusion via imports of hi-tech products. Two alternative specifications of 'productivity growth' are considered: (i) increments of the ...

2009-03-23 Shocks and rigidities as determinants of the CEE labor markets’ performance. A panel SVECM approach

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We analyze with panel SVECM the impact of real wage, productivity, labor demand and supply shocks on the eight CEE economies during 1996-2007. We use a set of long-run restrictions, derived from the DSGE model with explicitly modeled labor market, to identify these structural shocks. ...

2008-12-16 Assessing Effects of Joining Common Currency Area with Large-Scale DSGE model: A Case of Poland

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Sebastian Dyrda

Maciej Bukowski

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In this paper we present a large scale dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model, in order to analyze and simulate effects of Euro introduction in Poland. Presented framework is a based on a two-country open economy model, where foreign acts as the Eurozone, and home as ...

2008-11-14 Productivity Differences Across OECD Countries, 1970-2000 The World Technology Frontier Revisited

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Jakub Growiec

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We re-estimate the World Technology Frontier (WTF) non-parametrically, using the Data Envelopment Analysis method, with a dataset covering both OECD country-level and US state-level data on GDP per worker and the stocks of physical capital, unskilled labor and skilled labor. The WTF 2000 is found ...