Marta holds a PhD in Economics (SGH Warsaw School of Economics). Her work at the Institute for Structural Research is focused on evaluating the youth labour market policies, the role of cognitive and non-cognitive skills, and gender wage gap analysis. She worked at the Educational Research Institute before, where she was involved in international research projects on youth in the labour market and the assessment of adult competencies (PIAAC). She cooperated with OECD in the field of non-cognitive skills measurement. She likes skiing, sailing and listening to folk music in her free time.
interests
cognitive and non-cognitive skills, public policy analysis, economics of education
The IZA workshop "Inequality in Post-Transition and Emerging Economies" was organised by Hartmut Lehmann, Natalia Danzer, and Alexander Muravyev. Marta Placzyńska presented IBS's research findings.
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.
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 ...
This paper compares the relative effectiveness of selected active labour market policies available to young unemployed people in Poland in the years 2015-2016. We use rich administrative data and propensity score matching techniques to control for the non-random selection of unemployed individuals into alternative interventions. ...
This report was published under the project “Evaluation of support provided for young people under the Operational Programme Knowledge Education Development (OP KED)” commissioned by the Polish Ministry of Investment and Economic Development, financed from the European Social Fund. The project is realised by the ...
This article investigates the role of personality traits and cognitive skills as potential determinants of overeducation and in explaining overeducation wage penalty. Using a representative survey of the Polish working-age population, with well-established measures of cognitive skills and personality traits, I find that accounting for ...
This paper provides evidence on the association between individuals' cognitive abilities, personality traits, and earnings. I find that cognitive skills and certain personality traits are complements. In particular, I find that cognitive skills and emotional stability are complementary, with neurotic individuals having significantly lower returns ...
This report was published under the project “Evaluation of support provided for young people under the Operational Programme Knowledge Education Development (OP KED)” commissioned by the Polish Ministry of Investment and Economic Development, financed from the European Social Fund. The project is realised by the ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
