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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.
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.
In June, Zuzanna Kowalik and Piotr Lewandowski took part in an event organized by the Association of Business Service Leaders (ABSL). This
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.
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.
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.
The Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) hosted the first ELMI conference in Belval, Luxembourg, on 30-31 October 2023.
The IBS team was responsible for preparing contributions to The European Commission's 2023 Thematic Review " Fair Transition Towards Climate Neutrality ". Our report concerned the situation in Poland.
The Conference took place in Prague on 21-23 September 2023. Piotr Lewandowski and Marta Palczyńska represented IBS.
Piotr Lewandowski is a co-editor of Tasks, Skills, and Institutions - The Changing Nature of Work and Inequality, a book in WIDER Studies in Development Economics published by Oxford University Press.
The one-day UNTANGLED workshop brought together labour market economists from European universities and research institutes to discuss and reflect on ten papers on the evolution of skills and the value of skills.
SOLE - Annual Meeting of the Society of Labor Economists is the most important labour economics conference of the year. Once again, the Institute for Structural Research were the only Polish institution to present its research at this event.
IBS is one of eleven European institutes for labour research that established the “Network of European Labour Market Research Institutes” (ELMI).
We are going to discuss: European Welfare States in Crisis. Labour markets in flux.
The meeting of economists, policymakers and development experts will take place on December 14 & 15, 2022 in Cape Town and online!
The WeLaR Project aims examine how megatrends affect labour markets and the welfare state.
The Conference, titled “Labour market effects and social impact of technological transformation, globalisation and demographic change”, took place on 9 November in Brussels, attracting 16 papers and 45 participants.
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.
Piotr Lewandowski and Maciej Albinowski presented the results of two studies at the “TASKS VI” conference hosted by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg
Piotr Lewandowski presented the results of the study on working from home at the conference.
On the 25 of March 2022, a workshop summarizing the first year of the UNTANGLED project took place in Vienna. We presented the results of three studies on the impact of technology on the labour market and income inequality in Europe
Our research at the 26th Annual Conference of the Society of Labour Economists – May 14-15th, 2021
The co-authors of a chapter that focuses on Poland are Jakub Sokołowski and Piotr Lewandowski.
In many developed countries, housing affordability has become a focal point of discussions about housing policy as rental costs/house prices have increased relative to household incomes and the affordability situation and housing conditions have deteriorated.
The Institute for Structural Research (IBS) cooperated with the Ministry of Finance in Chile and the World Bank to conduct an economic analysis of the costs of Chile’s new ambitious climate change mitigation plan which would ensure carbon neutrality of the country in 2050.
Materials from IEAMS HKUST seminar, during which Piotr Lewandowski and Albert Park presented their new paper – Hong Kong, 25.04.
Materials from the 2019 IBS and the World Bank Conference: Globalization, work, and distributional tensions in Europe and Central Asia (Warsaw, January 16-17).
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!
We presented our research at COP24 in Katowice on the Polish coal industry, low-emissions transformation pathways, and energy poverty.
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.
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.
The summary report of the Coal Transitions project – analysis for China, India, South Africa, Australia, Germany and Poland.
IBS research was presented at the IZA World Labor Conference in Berlin.
The materials from the seminar organised by WB, MPiT & IBS (Warsaw, June 25).
Join the discussion about the technological change and labour markets in Europe – June 25th, Warsaw.
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.
Piotr Lewandowski, Katarzyna Sałach and Konstancja Ziółkowska estimated the labour demand required to meet the targets of anti-smog resolutions in two Polish voivodships (śląskie and małopolskie).
Main findings from the European Commission case study for Poland written by Piotr Lewandowski & IBS team.
New IZA World of Labor on recent labour market developments in Poland, by Piotr Lewandowski and Iga Magda.
The summary of our seminar about energy poverty (Warsaw, 30.01.).
The Annual Meeting co-organised by the American Economic Association was held on January 5-7 in Philadelphia. IBS results was presented by Piotr Lewandowski.
On January 30, we will organise a seminar on energy poverty and buildings’ retrofit in Poland. Together with experts we will discuss how to increase energy efficiency in the context of improving air quality in Poland.
On December 6-7 we organised the international conference about labour market. The summary and presentations from the event are available on our website.
On May 11-12, 2018, IBS will co-organise the Jobs and Development conference in Bogotá, Colombia. We kindly invite you to submit your papers with the deadline of January 15.
How many people work in cultural sector? What is the value added of the sector? We publish our report on the economic importance of the cultural sector in Poland.
The presentations and summary of the IBS seminar about economic inequality in Poland (Oct 23, Warsaw).
We present the short summary of the seminar organised by our Institute on October 12.
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.
In September experts from our Institute took part in several discussions about eliminating the energy poverty phenomenon, improving the energy efficiency and air quality of in Poland.
At the annual conference of the European Association of Labour Economists we presented the research about the intergenerational divide in the deroutinisation of jobs in Europe.
On October 19 in Warsaw will be presented the latest World Bank report about the economic situation in the ECA region.
On October 12 in Warsaw we will organise an international seminar on risks associated with different transition pathways in Polish energy sector.
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.
A stakeholder workshop organised by Climate Strategies and IDDRI was held in London on the 26th and 27th of June 2017.
Piotr Lewandowski spoke about the social challenges of energy transitions at the Eionet meeting in the European Environment Agency (EEA) in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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.
On the changing nature of jobs in Central and Eastern European countries; Piotr Lewandowski for IZA World of Labor.
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 European Commission Representation in Poland and IBS (as a partner) are pleased to invite you for the conference about ageing – March 9, 2017.
IBS and its partners in the TRANSrisk project consortium examine how pathways towards a low-emission future can be achieved within the domestic context of countries.
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.
What are the risks associated with a low-carbon transition? First results of the country case studies within the TRANSrisk project – report for thr European Commission.
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.
Piotr Lewandowski will present the results of research on routinisation of labour markets in Central and Eastern European countries at a seminar organised by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Institute for Emerging Market Studies.
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.
Keynote speakers included Guy Standing from University of London and Martin Ford, the futurist, author of the bestselling book Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future.
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.
Fourth International BIBB/IAB/ZEW Conference TASKS IV took place at ZEW headquarters in Mannheim, Germany, on September 8-9.
Increasingly, developing countries around the world have been expanding labour regulations that aim to protect workers from exploitation. However, a substantial gap remains between regulatory intent and regulatory outcomes.
In July 2016, Piotr Lewandowski the President of the Structural Research Institute joined IZA Research Fellows (Institute for the Study of Labor / Forschungsinstitut Für Zukunft der Arbeit, Bonn, Germany).
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.
On November 2-3, IBS will co-host the Jobs and Development conference in Washington D.C. We kindly invite you to submit your papers, with the deadline of August 28.
The impact of digital technologies on the quantity and quality of jobs, wages and workplace relations was the topic of the ETUC/ETUI conference which took place on 27-29 June 2016 in Brussels.
Piotr Lewandowski, Wojciech Hardy and Maciej Lis participated in the National Transfer Account (NTA) workshop in Saly, Senegal that took place from June 21 to June 24.
You can find all presentations and video recordings of the workshop on our website.
Wojciech Hardy on World Bank blog about the recent IBS research on job retention of workers nearing retirement.
On March 23, there was held a seminar on newly-published OECD Economic Survey 2016 for Poland. The seminar was organized by the OECD together with our Institute. We invite you to read the presentation materials.
You can watch the debate live between 3pm and 4pm CET (10am EST) on March 17, 2016
In a new World Bank blog post, Piotr Lewandowski (IBS), Radhicka Kapoor (ICRIER) and Siddhartha Raja (WB) explain who benefits and who suffers from technological change in the labour market.
The government of Poland is right to try to increase minimum wage coverage of workers, but its proposal how to do it has several drawbacks which can hurt jobs.
Conference on urbanization, structural change, and employment took place in Hong Kong on December 11-13 as a part of the Network on Jobs and Development activities.
Conference on jobs and development took place on December 3-4 in New Delhi with a focus on labour regulations, informality, demography and job creation in South Asia.
A workshop on matters such as urbanisation and labour regulations, in the particular context of labour markets in SubSaharan Africa, took place in Cape Town.
The 2015 edition of the „Przemiany” Festival, organized by Copernicus Science Centre, invited scientists, artists and everyone interested in the future of Earth to design a new epoch: Antropocen.
Lack of coordination of minimum wage and taxation hinders inclusive employment growth in Poland
IBS contributed to European Employment Policy Observatory (EEPO) thematic seminar “Reforming Employment Protection Legislation” in Brussels on June 16, 2015.
Educational boom in Poland increased the share of working-age people with tertiary degree from 12% in 2001 to 26% in 2013.
