Jan Gromadzki

economist

PhD candidate at SGH Warsaw School of Economics and a Research Affiliate at IZA – Institute of Labor Economics. In the past, he was a Fulbright scholar at UC Berkeley, a research assistant at the University of Zurich, and he received scholarships at the University of Groningen and the University of Bonn. He was awarded the NCN Preludium grant by the National Science Centre, Poland (a research project on the employment effects of an unconditional cash transfer). His interests lie in labour economics, political economy, and economic history. He is currently investigating the effects of social transfers on household labour supply, the effects of automation on wage and income inequality, the impact of wealth inequality on ethnic conflict, and the role of network effects in LGBTQ individuals’ decisions to disclose their identity. A fan of music festivals, cinema, theatre and queer culture.

interests

labour economics, micoreconometrics, machine learning

curriculum vitae - Jan Gromadzki

News

UNTANGLED Midterm Conference

conference

2022-11-21

The Conference, titled “Labour market effects and social impact of technological transformation, globalisation and demographic change”, took place on 9 November in Brussels, attracting 16 papers and 45 participants.

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.

Presentation of IBS findings at Untangled workshops

workshop

2022-04-01

On the 25 of March 2022, a workshop summarizing the first year of the UNTANGLED project took place in Vienna. We presented the results of three studies on the impact of technology on the labour market and income inequality in Europe

SOLE 2021

conference

2021-05-19

Our research at the 26th Annual Conference of the Society of Labour Economists – May 14-15th, 2021

“Youth emplyoment partnerSHIP” has been launched!

events, labour market

2019-02-01

We launched our new project during a special session of the 2019 IBS and the World Bank Conference – Warsaw, January 16.

“Youth Employment PartnerSHIP” launch event

projects

2019-01-09

We kindly invite you to the launch event for our new international project „Youth Employment PartnerSHIP” – Warsaw, January 16.

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Publications

2022-10-13 #IamLGBT: Social Networks and Coming Out

Authors:

Przemysław Siemaszko

Jan Gromadzki

working paper

In recent decades, there has been a marked increase in the number of people disclosing their LGBTQ identity. We propose a model of a game on a network with social learning to investigate the role of peer effects in coming out with decisions. We use ...

2022-01-17 When populists deliver on their promises: the electoral effects of a large cash transfer program in Poland

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We estimate the effects of the introduction of a large cash transfer program on support for the ruling populist party in Poland. We exploit the variation at the municipal level in the annual cash transfer amount received per capita, and use a difference-in-differences research design ...

2021-08-24 Labor supply effects of a universal cash transfer

Authors:

Jan Gromadzki

working paper

Unconditional cash transfers in the form of a universal basic income, a universal basic pension or a universal child benefit are increasingly being discussed in many countries. In this article, I investigate the labor supply effects of the introduction of a large unconditional cash benefit. ...

2019-11-06 Trends in occupational segregation by gender in a post-communist country

Authors:

Jan Gromadzki

working paper

The communist states promoted women’s participation in the labour market and encouraged women to enter male-dominated occupations, which should have resulted in relatively low levels of occupational segregation by gender. I show that after the transition to the market economy, the level of occupational segregation ...

2019-03-05 Firms and wage inequality in Central and Eastern Europe

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Recent studies show that firms are playing an increasingly important role in shaping wage inequality in advanced economies. We contribute to this literature by analysing wage inequality patterns and their firm dimension in Central and Eastern European countries. We use large, linked employer-employee datasets with ...

2019-02-18 The Added Worker Effect, Employment Contracts, and the Reasons for the Wife’s Inactivity

Authors:

Jan Gromadzki

working paper

The recent literature provide compelling evidence of the existence of a significant added worker effect (AWE) - wives increase their labour supply in response to the job displacement of their husbands. However, little is known about the heterogeneity of the effect. I study the variation ...

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Projects

Income effect and household decisions about labour supply: a quasi-experimental approach

The goal of the project is to provide new empirical results regarding the role of the income effect in making decisions about the labor supply. The introduction of a child benefit in Poland (Family 500+ program) makes it possible to identify the income effect due to the unique design of the program.

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.

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.

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.