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The project aims to develop sequences for renovating municipal buildings in Warsaw, balancing environmental, carbon-neutral and social goals. In the project, we will: organise knowledge about municipal buildings based on administrative data. develop criteria for just retrofitting municipal buildings. create an analytical tool for strategic documents and monitoring of urban investments. The project will include…

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The project aims to explore if the links between paid and unpaid work are balanced in light of access to flexible working arrangements. We will also consider how flexibility arrangements impact well-being and parental satisfaction, with a particular interest in parental burnout. In the project, we will: differentiate between the real-life division of labour in…

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The project aims to answer two fundamental questions: how does the increase in robot exposure affect wage inequality, and does the effect of robot exposure differ between European countries? In recent years, we witnessed rapid progress in technology and an increase in automation in most sectors of the economy. Since the beginning of the 2000s…

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The project aims to explore the links between working from home, job quality and psychological well-being. It will apply a mixed-method approach to establish the quantitative effect based on data from the EU-27 countries and explore the specific mechanisms of the impact. In recent decades, job quality has become an increasingly important topic in economics.…

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The project aims to recognise Poland’s gendered energy poverty patterns. Energy poverty disproportionately affects women due to structural inequalities in their socioeconomic status and unequal access to energy resources and services. Taking these aspects into account will allow for a better understanding of the causes and severity of the problem. The results will enable more…

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The Paths2Include project aims to understand the different forms of discrimination in European labour markets and to increase the employment opportunities of people from vulnerable groups at risk of exclusion from the labour market. As part of the project, we will analyse how interdependencies between various risk factors contribute to the vulnerability of particular groups…

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WeLaR – Welfare systems and labour market policies for economic and social resilience in Europe – is a three – year research project funded by the Horizon Europe Framework Programme that aims to examine the impact of digitalisation, globalisation, climate change and demographic shifts on labour markets and welfare states in Europe. WeLaR will not…

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The project aims to analyse the relationship between social gender norms and decisions about labour market participation and childcare. We will explore when social norms can be considered an essential factor in this regard and for whom. W will pay special attention to the household level to see whether male or female viewpoints on gender…

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The project aims to assess the adaptive capacity of housing cooperatives in internalising energy transition based on the example of Poland and Czechia. In the project, we will: collect data on housing cooperatives in Poland and Czechia based on administrative registries, explore and assess housing cooperative strategies for dealing with energy transition and energy price…

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The aim of the project is to understand the main reasons why firms require employees to work full-time and to quantify impact of this constraint on the total labour supply of older workers. Older workers have a relatively high preference for part-time employment. However, many of them are overemployed, that is, they work more hours…

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The aim of the project is to gain and organize all the knowledge about the mechanism of supporting environmental fees which is crucial in light of discussing various climate and energy policy options (carbon tax implementation, EU-ETS improvements) and ad hoc fiscal solutions due to the consequences of the pandemic crisis and Russian aggression on…

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The project aims to help shape the EU climate and energy policy regarding the effects of the increasing carbon costs on economically vulnerable groups.It focuses on four East-European EU member states (Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, and Romania) – with higher-than-EU-average levels of fossil fuels dependence in their economic systems, and higher-than-EU-average energy poverty levels – while also…

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