Maciej Albinowski

economist

PhD in economics (Warsaw School of Economics). In 2014-2019 Maciej worked at the Poland’s Ministry of Finance, where he conducted econometric analyses with the use of administrative data. His research areas included labour market, tax incentives and export competitiveness. He is a co-author of World Bank’s reports. Prior to joining the Ministry, Maciej worked at the Ernst & Young Chief Economist team.

At the Institute for Structural Research, his work focuses on minimum wage effects and on structural changes on European labour markets.

In his free time he reads historical fiction (favourite author: Conn Iggulden), plays strategy games and sings to his children.

interests

minimum wage, labour supply of older workers, tax system, monetary economics

News

IBS researchers present their findings in the framework of UNTANGLED project at the TASKS VI Conference

conference

2022-09-26

Piotr Lewandowski and Maciej Albinowski presented the results of two studies at the “TASKS VI” conference hosted by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg

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

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Publications

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 ...

2022-09-12 The Impact of ICT and Robots on Labour Market Outcomes of Demographic Groups in Europe

Authors:

Piotr Lewandowski

Maciej Albinowski

working paper

We study the age- and gender-specific labour market effects of two key modern technologies – Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), and robots – in 14 European countries between 2010-2018. To identify the causal effects of technology adoption, we utilize the variation of technology adoption between ...

2020-06-03 The heterogenous regional effects of minimum wages in Poland

Authors:

Piotr Lewandowski

Maciej Albinowski

working paper

Since 2008, Poland has been among the EU countries that have increased their minimum wage levels the most, following period in the mid-2000s during which the country’s minimum wage was barely raised. We evaluate the impact of these minimum wage hikes on employment and wage ...

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Projects

Minimum hours constraints and labour supply of older workers

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.

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.