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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.
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.
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.
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.
The European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) Annual Conference has returned to the in-person format with an exciting conference in Padova on 8-10 September 2022. Piotr Lewandowski and Iga Magda represented the IBS.
2022 Annual Meeting, April 6-9, 2022, Atlanta, Georgia USA & online
We launched our new project during a special session of the 2019 IBS and the World Bank Conference – Warsaw, January 16.
We kindly invite you to the launch event for our new international project „Youth Employment PartnerSHIP” – Warsaw, January 16.
We invite you to our conference on globalization, work, and distributional tensions in Europe and Central Asia – Warsaw, January 16-17. Registration is now open!
Iga Magda received her habilitation degree from the Collegium of Economic Analysis at the Warsaw School of Economics.
We welcome the submission of papers to the conference organised by the IBS and the World Bank – Warsaw, 16-17 of January. Deadline for submission – November 18.
At a workshop organized by IZA and Higher School of Economics in Moscow (11-12.10.), Iga Magda talked about wage inequality in Central and Eastern Europe.
Our research at the 30th Annual Conference of the European Association of Labour Economists in Lyon (France) – 13-15.09.
IBS Working Paper has been published in the Baltic Journal of Economics.
IBS research was presented at the IZA World Labor Conference in Berlin.
Iga Magda and Roma Keister presented IBS research at the European Population Conference – EPC 2018 (Brussels, June 6-9).
We kindly invite you for the seminar organised by our Institute and the European Commission Representation in Poland – June 18th.
On May 11-12 in Bogotá (Colombia) will host an international conference whose aim is to foster multi-disciplinary solutions to jobs challenges. We encourage you to participate online.
Together with the University of Lodz and the Institute of Labour and Social Studies we will create a forecasting tool for the Polish labour market.
In March 2018 Iga Magda, vice president of IBS, joined IZA as a Research Fellow.
Is high inequality an issue in Poland? What is the labour market impact of the 500+ child benefit?
New IZA World of Labor on recent labour market developments in Poland, by Piotr Lewandowski and Iga Magda.
Researchers from SGH Warsaw School of Economics analysed 4 European countries in new IZA Discussion Paper. Among authors – our Iga Magda.
On December 6-7 we organised the international conference about labour market. The summary and presentations from the event are available on our website.
The policy brief about using administrative data in the CEE and the summary of the experts meeting which we organised on November 30 in Warsaw.
The materials from the international IBS seminar on the female labour force participation in Poland and the impact of the “Family 500+” programme on the labour supply of women (Oct 24, Warsaw).
We kindly invite you for 2 international seminars about the economic inequalities in Poland and the impact of “Family 500+” benefit on the labour market – October 23-24, 2017, Warsaw.
On September 21-22, 2017, the seminar “Access to anonymised administrative data for the purposes of research and policy analysis” was held in Budapest.
Our presentations from Warsaw International Economic Meeting (WIEM) 2017 are now available.
At WIEM 2017, eight economists from the IBS will present research on the labour market, unauthorised sources of cultural goods, fuel poverty, RES and green innovation.
Second Report of Outcome Indicators Measurement prepared as part of the project “Evaluation of support provided for young people under the Operational Programme Knowledge Education Development (OP KED)”.
Although trade unions weakened substantially in CEE countries during the 1990s, there have been some signs of their revival since the 2000s - Iga Magda for IZA World of Labor.
A new book on employment protection regulation and labour market segmentation published by the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) features a chapter on Poland written by Piotr Lewandowski and Iga Magda.
Iga Magda and Roma Keister presented their research on the investment in children at the Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Meeting.
On the 2nd and 3rd of March 2017 the IBS team took part in the 5th European User Conference for EU-Microdata, organised by the German Microdata Lab, GESIS and cooperated with Eurostat.
The materials from the conference „Population ageing, labour market and public finance in Poland” (9th of March, Warsaw) are now available.
The European Commission Representation in Poland and IBS (as a partner) are pleased to invite you for the conference about ageing – March 9, 2017.
What is the level of physical activity among Poles? What are the social benefits coming from investment in sports? We present the results of our study conducted for the Polish Ministry of Sport and Tourism.
The Network on Jobs and Development and the World Bank Jobs Group held a two-day conference to discuss the latest policy-relevant research to foster the creation of multi-sector, multi-disciplinary solutions to jobs challenges around the world.
A new Routledge publication presents a comprehensive overview of gender inequalities on labour markets since the fall of communism in a wide range of Eastern European countries.
The most recent VoxEU eBook on long-term unemployment in Europe by Samuel Bentolila and Marcel Jansen has been just released. Polish economists from IBS Iga Magda and Piotr Lewandowski have contributed to this eBook with the chapter describing long-term unemployment in Poland. The eBook can be found at: www.voxeu.org.
Like in the previous year, Institute for Structural Research organizes the seminar on fuel poverty*. We will present our recent findings on the topic. This year, our research focused on defining types of households at risk of fuel poverty, analysing its regional variation and proposing policies to eradicate the problem.
In Milan, October 20-21, 2016, there was held COMPIE 2016 conference dedicated to the use of counterfactual methods to evaluate public policies.
As many as six researchers will present results of the studies carried out at IBS during the 28. annual Conference of the European Association of Labour Economists to be held 15-17 September, 2016 in Gent, Belgium.
Institute for Structural Research contributed to the report on precarious employment and its various forms in Europe which was prepared at request of the European Parliament’s Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.
The Warsaw International Economic Meeting, organised by the University of Warsaw Faculty of Economic Sciences and CenEA (cooperating partner) will take place from June 28 to 30.
Wojciech Hardy on World Bank blog about the recent IBS research on job retention of workers nearing retirement.
Population Association of America (PAA) Annual 2016 conference took place in Washington, DC (USA) on March 31st – April 2nd.
The state should support the families’ struggles with the costs of childrearing, but the 500 Plus programme is not an example of effective policy in this regard.
In majority of CEE countries, trade union membership declined sharply after the economic transition.
