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2025-07-28 Between efficiency and democracy: Explaining support and resistance towards energy transition and prosumer solutions in Polish and Czech housing cooperatives

authors:

Wojciech Bełch

Tomáš Vácha

Sona Stará

Michal Nesládek

Krzysztof Niedziałkowski

The paper examines attitudes and perceptions of collective energy investments in multi-family buildings, applying an institutional framework and based on 60 interviews with key policy stakeholders and housing cooperative representatives in Poland and the Czechia. Housing cooperatives are well-positioned to implement renewable energy technologies as top-down, techno-economic investments focused on reducing ...

2025-05-29 Working from Home and Job Satisfaction: A Mediating Effect of Organisational Culture

authors:

Zuzanna Kowalik

working paper

The widespread shift to remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated a debate on its impact on employee satisfaction. Despite assumptions that greater flexibility and autonomy would inherently boost job satisfaction, research findings have been inconsistent. A key mechanism that might help explain these mixed outcomes is organisational culture. This ...

2025-03-31 Peer effects and inequalities in technology uptake. Evidence from a large-scale subsidy programme

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The success of energy transition in addressing climate change depends on several factors, including the affordability of new technologies and the influence of peers within communities. However, concerns about affordability raise questions about how economic inequalities shape peer effects and whether they create barriers to equitable adoption. To this ...

2025-03-28 Workers’ exposure to AI across development

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This paper develops a task-adjusted, country-specific measure of workers’ exposure to artificial intelligence (AI) across 108 countries, covering approximately 89% of global employment. Building on the AI Occupational Exposure index by Felten et al. (2021), we map AI-related abilities to worker-level tasks using survey data from PIAAC, STEP, and CULS. We then predict occupational ...

2025-03-07 The effects of automation on workers’ wages

authors:

Karol Madoń

working paper

This study examines the impact of automation on workers' wages across 20 European countries between 2010–2018. Overall, it identifies a net positive effect of robot adoption on average wages at the sectoral level, especially pronounced among routine manual and nonroutine manual occupations. Importantly, these effects differ between countries- workers ...

2025-03-07 The relationship between Artificial Intelligence (AI) exposure and return to education

authors:

Karol Madoń

working paper

This paper studies the relationship between exposure to artificial intelligence (AI) and workers’ wages across European countries. Overall, a positive relationship between exposure to AI and workers’ wages is found, however it differs considerably between workers and countries. High-skilled workers experience far higher wage premiums related to AI-related skills ...

2025-03-06 The Role of Job Task Degradation in Shaping Return Intentions: Evidence from Ukrainian War Refugees in Poland

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This paper studies the relationship between professional experiences and return intentions of Ukrainian war refugees in Poland, following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Using country-wide, online surveys conducted in 2022 and 2023 and worker-level measures of job tasks, we show that refugees' high employment rate coexists ...

2024-12-17 Energy commons during crisis: Understanding housing cooperative strategies through dramaturgical sociology

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The importance of energy as a common good becomes especially pronounced during crises. This paper reconstructs the response of housing cooperatives – a specific type of energy community – to the energy crisis. To this end, we apply eighteen impression management strategies inspired by Erving Goffman’s dramaturgical sociology. We analyse a unique dataset of ...

2024-11-04 Universal Child Benefit and Child Poverty: The Role of Fertility Adjustments

authors:

Jan Gromadzki

working paper

I study fertility adjustments after the introduction of a large universal child benefit in Poland. The program caused a six percent increase in the number of births. Patterns of selection into parenthood changed significantly and persistently, with a weakening of positive selection based on education and a strengthening of negative selection based on income. ...

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 ...

2024-01-24 Minimum Hours Constraints: The Role of Organizational Culture

authors:

Maciej Albinowski

Joanna Franaszek

working paper

We develop a model in which minimum hours constraints (MHC) arise due to both the characteristics of the production function and managerial attitudes. The importance of the organizational culture can be deduced from the correlation between the MHC faced by core task personnel and administrative workers. The tasks performed by administrative workers, ...

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, ...