Iga Magda

vice president of the board

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor at the Warsaw School of Economics. She joined IZA as a Research Fellow in March 2018. Previously she worked at the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, coordinating research projects and participating in EU/ OECD working parties on employment and social affairs. Her research is focused on the labour market, education, health and social policy, including family policies. She has authored and co-authored numerous publications in these fields. In her free time she likes sailing and skiing.

interests

labour market, social policy, wage and income inequalities, health economics

curriculum vitae - Iga Magda

News

Iga Magda presenting IBS research at the Population Association of America (PAA) Conference

conference

2025-04-23

The annual conference of the Population Association of America was held in Washington DC (USA) from April 9 to April 13.

The NEVI-EVY project has started

conference, conference

2025-04-07

The very fruitful kick-off of the NEVI-EVY project took place on 4 April 2024 in Warsaw.

Paths2Include project’s meeting

workshop

2024-11-12

The meeting took place on 7 and 8 November in Bucharest. The project aims to investigate the phenomenon of discrimination and to develop solutions to increase the employability of disadvantaged people in the labour market.

Paths2Include project – next steps

workshop

2023-11-30

We were in Girona on November 23rd and 24th at the meeting of the international research project Paths2Include. The project aims to investigate various aspects of discrimination in the labour market and develop recommendations to increase employment opportunities for people in vulnerable situations.

The Paths2Include project has started!

conference

2023-04-24

In cooperation with partners from 8 countries, we will investigate how to support people discriminated against based on gender, ethnic origin, age, health, or sexual orientation.

Working time flexibility, personality traits and gender pay gap – summing up the project with the National Science Centre

events

2022-10-06

Why are women paid less than men, even if they work in the same place, in the same occupation, and have equal educational attainment? What are the gender norms that define our professional life decisions? These are the issues we have focused on for the last four years.

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Publications

2025-05-08 Gender pay gap—how much more do men earn than women?

Authors:

Iga Magda

Agata Rozszczypała

policy paper

Problem: Despite regulations aimed at reducing gender inequality, significant disparities in the earnings of men and women persist in the labour market. These inequities are unjust and inefficient, hindering increased female participation in the workforce, which is critically needed from both economic and demographic perspectives. ...

2023-07-24 Is there room for improvement in wage setting in Poland’s public administration?

Authors:

Maciej Albinowski

Iga Magda

policy paper

There are several areas for improvement in wage setting in the public administration sector in Poland. Public administration pays a lower premium for tertiary education and offers lower wages for young employees than the business sector. Instead, public administration provides large returns to job tenure, ...

2023-06-15 The employment effects of a wage subsidy for the young during an economic recovery

Authors:

This study investigates the employment effects of a large-scale wage subsidy programme for the young unemployed that was introduced in 2016, during a period of recovery in the Polish economy. The focus is on the question of whether the effects differed between men and women. ...

2023-04-06 What if she earns more? Gender norms, income inequality, and the division of housework.

Authors:

Marta Palczyńska

Iga Magda

Ewa Cukrowska-Torzewska

working paper

Using data from the “Generation and Gender Survey” for Poland, we study the relationship between women’s relative income within the household, as measured by the female share of total household income, and women’s involvement in housework. We find that households in which the woman contributes ...

2023-01-27 The Employment Effects of the Disability Education Gap in Europe

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We investigate the role of education in creating employment opportunities for persons with disabilities across the European Union. We use the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) for 2011-2019. We find that educational attainment is a major factor determining the probability of ...

2021-09-30 Flexibility of working time arrangements and female labor market outcome

Authors:

Katarzyna Lipowska

Iga Magda

working paper

We use data from 2019 EU LFS to study gender and parenthood gaps in flexibility in working time arrangements. We find that overall in Europe, there is no statistically significant gender difference in access to flexible work arrangements. However, women are less likely than men ...

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Projects

NEVI-EVY: NEETcraft Initiative: Innovations for empowering youth with disabilities

The project aims at increasing employment chances and job quality among young persons with disabilities.

Paths2Include – European Labour Markets under Pressure. New Knowledge on Pathways to Include Persons in Vulnerable Situations.

The Paths2Include project aims to understand the different forms of discrimination in European labour markets and to increase the employment opportunities of people at risk of exclusion from the labour market.

WeLaR – Welfare systems and labour market policies for economic and social resilience in Europe

The project aims to present proposals for creating social welfare and labour market policies that will respond to the changes taking place under the influence of megatrends - digitisation, globalisation, climate change and demographic change - in labour markets and welfare state systems in Europe.

GeNLaMO – Gender norms and labour market outcomes.

The project analyses the relationship between social gender norms and decisions about labour market participation and childcare.

Designing the law implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

The project consists of the preparation of a draft law implementing the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). It obliges the states-parties to take all actions to implement the provisions and monitor their implementation, as well as to disseminate its provisions to raise awareness of citizens, including those with disabilities.

Committed father from the beginning!

Institute for Structural Research and Share the Care are implementing workshops at birth schools for couples.

Untangled

Our goal in UNTANGLED is to examine the impact of globalisation, technological transformations and demographic change on labour markets in the European Union, and to recommend policies that will contribute to shared prosperity.

Employment and wages in the public sector in Poland

The aim of the project is to review recent developments in public wage bill in Poland and to identify factors that may influence its changes in the future.

TIPPING+ – Enabling positive tipping points towards clean energy transitions in coal and carbon-intensive regions

The aim of the project is to characterise and explain the decisive events, processes, major systems’ transformations and their effects on the transition of European CCIR toward clean energy; but also, to prevent the rise of undesirable outcomes like the rise of populism and anti-democratic attitudes.

Addressing technological unemployment in Poland

The aim of the project is to improve the labour market prospects of workers at the risk of technological unemployment in Poland.

Youth employment partnerSHIP – evaluation studies in Spain, Hungary, Italy and Poland

Project will evaluate employment initiatives targeting youth in Spain, Hungary, Italy and Poland. It is implemented by the IBS and 8 partners between 2018 and 2021, thanks to the EEA and Norway Grants Fund for Youth Employment.

Working time flexibility, personality traits and gender pay gaps

The result of the project will be a multifaceted study of the sources of wage inequalities between women and men.

System for forecasting the Polish labour market

The aim of the project is to develop a novel forecasting method for main labour market variables for Poland.

Parental socio-economic status and their time investments into children

We undertake a comprehensive analysis of factors affecting the amount of time allocated by parents or other family members to educational activities with children in Poland.

Directions of socio-economic development of Poland in the digital era

The aim of the project is to define various challenges Poland is facing with regard to the growing importance of new technologies in social and economic life.

Evaluation of support provided for young people under the Operational Programme Knowledge Education Development

The aim of the project is to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of support for young people implemented under I Priority Axis of the Operational Programme Knowledge Education Development (KED). The project will base on quantitative surveys of support participants and qualitative interviews’ of support coordinators.

Gender wage differences: a cohort analysis

The objective is to analyze the determinants of wage disparities between men and women in different age groups and from the firm-level perspective.

Jobs and Development: Creating Multi-Disciplinary Solutions

The Institute for Structural Research is a member of the Network for Jobs and Development (NJD) initiative of the World Bank to pursue a multi-sectoral and multi-disciplinary approach to the global jobs agenda during the period 2013-16.

Access to administrative data for research and policy analysis

The aim of the project was to share experience in using administrative data in CEE countries and to promote the wider use of such data.

Research dissemination

Organisation of public policy seminars on the labour market, social policy and the impact of the energy market changes on society, and the international conference „IBS Jobs Conference 2017”.

Family policy transfers and female labour supply

The objective of the project is to investigate the potential effects of the government programme „Family 500+” on the labour market.

The importance of cultural and creative sectors

The project aimed at assessing the importance of cultural and creative sectors in Polish economy by calculating the value added and employment in both sectors.

Assessing the social benefits from investment in sports in relation to the costs

The aim of the project was to assess the benefits of investment in physical activity in relation to the costs.

Development of macroeconomic modelling methods: Incorporating ex-post heterogeneity to Dynamic Stochastic Generel Equlibrium Models

The aim of the project was to develop a novel mathematical method that will facilitate the introduction of heterogeneity of economic agents into otherwise standard macroeconomic general equilibrium models.

Elaboration of the uniform and reliable methodology to measure gender pay gap. Creating the application estimating pay differences between women and men performing the same job in the same company

The project aimed at building an application which estimates pay differences between women and men performing the same job and working in the same company.

Analysis of work benefits from the Employee Social Benefit Funds

The study aimed at analysing the scope and the impact of non-wage social benefits on the social and economic aspects.

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