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The Distribution of Wages in Poland, 1992-2002

Newell, Andrew; Socha, Mieczyslaw W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper analyses the changes in the size distribution of wages in Poland over a decade of transition. Until about …

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The Polish Wage Inequality Explosion

Newell, Andrew; Socha, Mieczyslaw W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper presents and analyses the sharp increase in hourly wage inequality after 1998 in Poland. The increase was …

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The Polish Growth Miracle: Outcome of Persistent Reform Efforts

Lehmann, Hartmut - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Poland’s economy has been outstanding if we take GDP growth as our measure. It is not specific reforms that can explain this …-friendly governments were voted out of office, the new governments in Poland never reversed reforms undertaken by the previous government …

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North-South Technology Diffusion, Regional Integration, and the Dynamics of the "Natural Trading Partners" Hypothesis

Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Korea, Mexico and Poland. Using industry-level data, we show that i) technology diffusion and productivity gains tend to be … regional: Korea (Mexico) (Poland) benefits mainly from trade with Japan (North America) (the EU); and ii) the dynamic version … of the "natural trading partners" hypothesis seems to hold for Korea and Mexico though not necessarily for Poland. …

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To Study or to Work? Education and Labour Market Participation of Young People in Poland

Pastore, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper proposes Heckprobit estimates of the determinants of labour market participation of a sample of young (15-30) Poles, controlling for the sample selection bias caused by excluding those in education. There is evidence of sample selection bias in the case of young men, suggesting that...

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Entrepreneurship from Scratch: Lessons on the Entry Decision into Self-Employment from Transition Economies

Earle, John S.; Sakova, Zuzana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable "quasi-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...

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As SIMPL As That: Introducing a Tax-Benefit Microsimulation Model for Poland

Bargain, Olivier; Socha, Mieczysław Wacław; Morawski, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

model allows simulating direct taxes, social contributions and public benefits in Poland for the years 2003 and 2005. It is …

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Labour Turnover and the Spatial Distribution of Unemployment: A Panel Data Analysis Using Employment Registry Data

Pastore, Francesco; Tyrowicz, Joanna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

from the employment registry of a transition economy (Poland), encompassing nine years of monthly data (from 2000 to 2008 …

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On th Identification of Relative Wage Rigidity Dynamics. A Proposal for a Methodology on Cross-Section Data and Empirical Evidence for Poland in Transition

Puhani, Patrick A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

We present a new and simple empirical methodology to identify relative wage rigidity dynamics. The methodology is applied to data from the Polish Labour Force Survey for the period 1994 to 1998. We estimate ceteris paribus in relative wage and unemployment differentials for various labour market...

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