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

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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. ...

2024-07-31 Facilitating data-driven retrofits to alleviate energy poverty in Warsaw

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The study includes a procedure and recommendations for collecting data on energy poverty at the building level, available in national and local government registers. The adopted analytical process allowed for developing various energy renovation scenarios for municipal buildings in Warsaw, considering a balance between social, environmental and economic goals in urban policy ...

2023-10-02 Housing cooperatives facing the energy transition. Insights from Poland and Czechia

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This study constitutes preliminary analytical material concerning the adaptative capacity of housing cooperatives to accommodate energy transition in Poland and Czechia. This report comprehensively utilises administrative data from Polish and Czech national registers for the first time. These data have been employed to (1) compare Polish and Czech ...

2023-05-24 Distributional effects of carbon pricing in Poland

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The report aims to indicate the potential effects of climate policy and point out mechanisms to reduce inequalities caused by increased energy prices. Based on the macroeconomic model and microsimulation, we present the effects of carbon pricing and its consequences for economic sectors and households within a ten-year horizon. We indicate that ...

2023-03-27 Energy poverty among women in Poland

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Women who independently manage households constitute a social group particularly vulnerable to energy poverty. This vulnerability stems from several factors, including low-income levels associated with gender pay and pension gaps. Additionally, the increased risk of energy poverty is shaped by specific energy needs and traditional household roles often ...

2022-07-06 Informing young unemployed people about support measures – does it work?

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Mateusz Smoter

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We conducted a survey experiment in Poland to investigate how providing young people from the NEET group with information affected their rate of registration with the public employment services. The individuals assigned to the treatment group received information about the services offered by the PES. The information was followed by three text ...

2022-05-09 The economic effects of stopping Russian energy import in Poland.

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We estimate the macroeconomic and distributional effects that a ban on fuel imports from Russia would have in Poland. We simulate the embargo as a hike in oil, gas and coal prices, and evaluate the macroeconomic effects with a dynamic general equilibrium model. We soft-link it with a microsimulation model based on Household Budget Survey data to assess ...

2020-05-17 The Impact of the Support Offered to Young People under the Operational Programme Knowledge Education Development. The Final Report

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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 ...

2020-04-21 A comprehensive study of the Polish music market

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The project was delivered as the outcome of the tender "Preparation of a report: ‹‹ A comprehensive study of the Polish music market ››. Procedure No. 11 / BDG / PN / 2019. Contractor: Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

2019-05-30 Just coal transition in the Silesia Region. Implications for the labour market

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Jan Witajewski-Baltvilks

Daniel Kiewra

Aleksander Szpor

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The role of hard coal in the economy of the Silesian voivodship will continue to decrease. Decarbonisation will entail far-reaching economic and social changes. IBS research (Witajewski-Baltvilks et al. 2018) shows that according to the scenario of an ambitious climate policy, the number of miners will drop by about 50,000 in the ...

2019-01-22 Defining and measuring energy poverty in Poland

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The EU Member States are obliged to assess the scale of energy poverty in their respective national contexts. We propose a new definition of energy poverty in Poland, with different levels of specificity corresponding to the needs of different levels of administration. We also propose a set of five indicators for measuring energy poverty ...

2018-11-28 Risks associated with the decarbonisation of the Polish power sector

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Marek Antosiewicz

Jan Witajewski-Baltvilks

Jakub Sawulski

Haris Doukas

Baiba Witajewska-Baltvilks

The Polish power sector currently stands at a crossroads, facing two alternative pathways. First, the decarbonisation pathway with radical CO2 emissions reduction, which involves a fast phase-down of coal. Second, the baseline pathway that abandons emission reduction targets, and involves a slow coal phase-down. Both pathways are associated with ...