Katarzyna Lipowska

economist

Katarzyna graduated in Quantitative Methods and Information Systems from the Warsaw School of Economics and Psychology from the University of Warsaw. She participated in grant projects on cognitive development and collective action as a doctoral student at the Department of Psychology, University of Warsaw. She also worked in public administration.

At IBS, she researches work-life balance, mental health, and flexible working arrangements.

In her free time, she swims and learns foreign languages.

interests

flexible working arrangements, mental health, work-life balance

News

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 – 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.

“Skill Changes and the Value of Skills” – Untangled project workshop in Warsaw

workshop

2023-06-20

The one-day UNTANGLED workshop brought together labour market economists from European universities and research institutes to discuss and reflect on ten papers on the evolution of skills and the value of skills.

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Publications

2024-09-05 Preference for working from home – subjective perceptions of COVID-19 matter more than objective information on occupational exposure to contagion

Authors:

Piotr Lewandowski

Mateusz Smoter

Katarzyna Lipowska

We investigate how subjective and objective assessment of COVID-19 risks affect preferences toward working from home (WFH) and whether informing workers about the level of exposure to contagion in their occupation affects these preferences. In the summer of 2021, we conducted a discrete choice experiment ...

2022-09-28 Mismatch in preferences for working from home – evidence from discrete choice experiments with workers and employers

Authors:

We study preferences for remote work using a large-scale discrete choice study with 10,000 workers and 1,500 employers in Poland. Workers value remote work more than employers. On average, workers are willing to sacrifice 2.9% of earnings for remote work, with hybrid work from home ...

2022-04-13 Working from home during a pandemic – a discrete choice experiment in Poland

Authors:

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed working from home from a rarity to a widely adopted job amenity. We study workers’ willingness to pay for working from home, and how it may be affected by subjective and objective assessments of COVID-19-related risks. We conducted a discrete ...

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 ...

2020-06-08 The gender dimension of occupational exposure to contagion in Europe

Authors:

We study the gender dimension of occupational exposure to contagious diseases spread by the respiratory or close-contact route. We show that in Europe, women are more exposed to contagion, as they are more likely than men to work in occupations that require contact with diseases, ...

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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.

The relationship between working time flexibility, division of labour in the household, and parental burnout

The project aims to explore the links between paid and unpaid work are balanced in light of access to flexible working arrangements.

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.

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.

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.

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