Piotr Lewandowski

president of the board

Piotr Lewandowski is a labour economist, a President of the Board at Institute for Structural Research (IBS), Warsaw, Poland, and a Research Fellow at IZA, Bonn, Germany. In the past, he collaborated with the Warsaw School of Economics and the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy in Poland. His research interests include the impact of technology on jobs, wage polarization, labour market segmentation, minimum wage, energy poverty, and the labour market effects of climate and energy policies. After hours, he is the founder and editor of PopUp, a music webzine (www.popupmusic.pl). His hobbies include photography, swimming and cycling. He is a fan of rugby and tennis.

interests

labour market institutions and policies, labour market segmentation, minimum wage, technological progress and employment, pension economics

curriculum vitae - Piotr Lewandowski

News

Jobs and Development Conference 2024Two researchers represented IBSJobs and Development Conference 2024

conference, conference

2024-10-31

Researchers from around the world presented a wide range of the latest research on labour economics, primarily focusing on addressing the challenge of creating improved job opportunities in developing countries.

ELMI Conference in Brussels

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2024-10-04

Piotr Lewandowski and Maciej Albinowski participated in the conference of the Network of European Labour Market Research Institutes (ELMI), which took place on October 1-2, 2024, in Brussels.

ABSL – IBS presents the results of a survey of business service centre employees

conference

2024-06-20

In June, Zuzanna Kowalik and Piotr Lewandowski took part in an event organized by the Association of Business Service Leaders (ABSL). This

Labour demand and technology – WELAR project workshop in Warsaw

workshop

2024-04-25

The one-day WELAR workshop brought together labour market economists from European universities and research institutes to discuss and reflect on ten papers on the impacts of AI, green transition and migration on labour demand.

Project SkiLMeeT launched!

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2024-04-08

In collaboration with partners from six countries, we will investigate factors influencing skills mismatches and shortages in the labour markets during the green and digital transition and potential solutions.

Untangled Final Conference

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2023-11-30

The conference took place in Leuven on 23 October 2023. Researchers originating from over 15 institutions presented the results of about 30 research papers. Zuzanna Kowalik and Karol Madoń represented IBS.

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Publications

2024-11-19 Effects of tobacco taxation on smoking prevalence in Poland

Authors:

Piotr Lewandowski

Maciej Albinowski

report

This report analyzes the health and economic aspects of tobacco taxation in Poland, including an assessment of excise hikes proposed by the Polish government in July 2024. We provide a detailed analysis of demand elasticities for cigarettes, examining the effects of price and income changes on the smoking behaviour of households. ...

2024-11-06 Is the four-day working week warranted in Poland?

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Problem Polish weekly working time is, on average, longer than in other EU countries. The Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy is considering reducing working time to four days per week, with wages corresponding to five days of work. Main message The introduction of a four-day week would significantly exacerbate ...

2024-09-10 Automation, Trade Unions and Involuntary Atypical Employment

Authors:

Wojciech Szymczak

Piotr Lewandowski

working paper

We study the effect of the adoption of automation technologies – industrial robots, software and databases – on the incidence of atypical employment in 13 E.U. countries between 2006 and 2018. We combine survey microdata with sectoral information on technology use and exploit the variation at the demographic group level. Using ...

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 combined with an information provision experiment ...

2024-08-01 Will an increase in tobacco excise duty bring health benefits in Poland?

Authors:

Piotr Lewandowski

Maciej Albinowski

policy paper

Problem Tobacco prices significantly influence consumption levels. Over the past decade in Poland, they have been falling in relation to incomes and the prices of other products. We show how a new proposal for an increase in excise duty will affect cigarette smoking and the health of the Polish popuation. Conclusions ...

2023-12-18 Automation In Shared Service Centres: Implications For Skills And Autonomy In A Global Organisation

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The offshoring-fuelled growth of the Central and Eastern European business services sector gave rise to shared service centres (SSCs), quasi-autonomous entities providing routine-intensive tasks for the central organisation. The advent of technologies like Intelligent Process Automation, Robotic Process Automation, and Artificial Intelligence jeopardises SSCs’ employment model, ...

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Projects

SkiLMeeT – Skills for labour markets in the green and digital transition

The project "SkiLMeeT: Skills for labour markets in the green and digital transition" aims to produce sound indicators that help better understand the extent of skills mismatches and shortages on the European labour market.

GDPoweR – Recovering workers’ data to negotiate and monitor collective agreements in the platform economy

The GDPoweR project aims to bolster industrial relations in the platform economy by analysing strategies used by platform workers, activists, trade unionists, and employer groups in negotiating pay and conditions.

Energy poverty of women in Poland

The project aims to recognise Poland's gendered energy poverty patterns and enable more effective implementation of public policy measures to tackle energy poverty.

WeLaR – Welfare systems and labour market policies for economic and social resilience in Europe

The project aims to present proposals for creating social welfare and labour market policies that will respond to the changes taking place under the influence of megatrends - digitisation, globalisation, climate change and demographic change - in labour markets and welfare state systems in Europe.

Mechanisms of supporting environmental fees in Poland

This project aims to assess the people’s preferences regarding the acceptance and redistribution of environmental fees in Poland.

Labour force indirectly affected by coal mine closures

The aim of the project is to estimate and map the workforce employed in the Polish coal mines as well as the workforce employed by their subcontractors, indirectly affected by the coal transition in three regions: Silesia, Greater Poland, and Lower Silesia.

Untangled

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.

Guidelines for the Upper Silesian Territorial Just Transition Plan

The aim of the project was to provide analytical support and recommendations helpful in preparation of the Territorial Just Transition Plan as well as other strategic documents supporting low-carbon development pathway in the Upper Silesia Region.

Labour market in the Śląskie Voivodeship and climate neutrality in 2050

The aim of the project is to assess the impact of achieving climate neutrality on the labour market in the Śląskie Voivodeship. A just transformation of the Silesia region is crucial for reducing emissions of the energy sector and minimizing the social costs of this process.

TIPPING+ – Enabling positive tipping points towards clean energy transitions in coal and carbon-intensive regions

The aim of the project is to characterise and explain the decisive events, processes, major systems’ transformations and their effects on the transition of European CCIR toward clean energy; but also, to prevent the rise of undesirable outcomes like the rise of populism and anti-democratic attitudes.

Modelling the Impacts of Climate Change Mitigation Policies in Chile

This project, conducted between August 2019 and January 2020, will consist of updating the model of the Chilean economy and using it to assess the new set of mitigation policies the government aims to implement until 2030 – in order to meet the emission target set in the Nationally Determined Contributions.

Task content of occupations in countries at various development levels

In this project we cooperate with the HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies and the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research to create new econometric models to predict task content of occupations in a large number of countries.

Housing market in Poland and its impact on the labour market

The goal of the project is to compare the Polish housing market with other EU countries and to analyse the impact of the inadequate housing resources on the spatial mobility on the labour market.

Addressing technological unemployment in Poland

The aim of the project is to improve the labour market prospects of workers at the risk of technological unemployment in Poland.

Transformation of the Konińskie lignite subregion

The aim of the project is to prepare a socio-economic and technological transition strategy for Konińskie subregion.

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.

TRANSrisk – Transitions pathways and risk analysis for climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies

The objective of the project is to understand the risks, uncertainties and co-effects related to different climate change mitigation pathways as well as public acceptance (or lack thereof) of low-carbon technology options.

Energy Poverty

The aim of the project is to show the factors affecting the phenomenon of energy poverty in Poland and the identification of effective social policy instruments to counter this problem.

Jobs and Development: Creating Multi-Disciplinary Solutions

The Institute for Structural Research is a member of the Network for Jobs and Development (NJD) initiative of the World Bank to pursue a multi-sectoral and multi-disciplinary approach to the global jobs agenda during the period 2013-16.

Coal Transitions: Research and Dialogue on the Future of Coal

During the project IBS together with partner organisations from Australia, China, France, Germany, Great Britain, India and South Africa will develop transition pathways and policy packages for coal sector transformation.

Research dissemination

Organisation of public policy seminars on the labour market, social policy and the impact of the energy market changes on society, and the international conference „IBS Jobs Conference 2017”.

The importance of cultural and creative sectors

The project aimed at assessing the importance of cultural and creative sectors in Polish economy by calculating the value added and employment in both sectors.

Labour market impact of building energy retrofit in Poland

In the analyses conducted within the Project we will assess the demand i.a. for labour and skills resulting from thermal insulation programs.

How my taxes are spent?

The objective of the project was to strengthen civic control over the public finance sector. As part of the project we collected, organized, shared and analysed statistical data on public finance in Poland over 2004-2016.

Development of macroeconomic modelling methods: Incorporating ex-post heterogeneity to Dynamic Stochastic Generel Equlibrium Models

The aim of the project was to develop a novel mathematical method that will facilitate the introduction of heterogeneity of economic agents into otherwise standard macroeconomic general equilibrium models.

DYNAmic policy MIXes for absolute decoupling of environmental impact of EU resource use from economic growth

DYNAMIX aim was to identify dynamic and robust policy mixes that can lead to decoupling the environmental impact of EU resource use from economic growth.

MAPS Chile – Mitigation Action Plans Scenarios

MAPS was an international project whose aim was to establish scientific evidence to support the transition to robust, carbon efficient and climate resilient economies.

The impact of changes in legislation on open pension funds on public finances in the short and long term

The aim of the project was to assess the impact of new legislation of 2013, substantially changing rules of Polish pension system, especially referring to open pension funds, on situation of public finances.

Consultancy services to develop a modeling framework for green growth policy analysis, including a large-scale dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model for Macedonia

The consulting work led to the construction of a comprehensive, dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model, which was an innovative tool in capturing the linkages between growth, adaptation to a changing climate, and climate change mitigation goals.

Flexicurity model solutions

The project aimed at proposing an integrated model of flexicurity for Poland, that would take into account the existing legislation and practices of employers.

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