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This paper analyses the changes in the size distribution of wages in Poland over a decade of transition. Until about …
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This paper presents and analyses the sharp increase in hourly wage inequality after 1998 in Poland. The increase was …
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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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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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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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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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model allows simulating direct taxes, social contributions and public benefits in Poland for the years 2003 and 2005. It is …
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from the employment registry of a transition economy (Poland), encompassing nine years of monthly data (from 2000 to 2008 …
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and Poland. Using the Italian and Polish time use surveys, both the opportunity cost and the market replacement approaches …. However, the huge difference in the value of unpaid family care work, which in Italy exceeds the value of Poland by about …
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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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