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Age-productivity patterns in talent occupations for men and women: a decomposition

Liberda, Barbara; Tyrowicz, Joanna; Smyk, Magdalena - Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Uniwersytet Warszawski - 2013

the so-called “talent” occupations. Using data from a transition economy (Poland) we find that indeed talent occupations …

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Employed Unemployed? On Shadow Employment During Transition

Tyrowicz, Joanna; Cichocki, Stanisław - Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Uniwersytet Warszawski - 2010

Unregistered employment poses two types of challenges to the researchers: (i) reliably evaluating the wage differential between formally and informally employed and (ii) accounting for the push and pull factors in general and the effects of business cycle in particular. We address the former...

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Cynicism Starts Young: Age and Entrepreneurship over Transition

Tyrowicz, Joanna; Nestorowicz, Joanna - Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Uniwersytet Warszawski - 2010

associated with the transition and the variability induced by economic and labour market fluctuations. We construct a consistent …

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The Goodwill Effect? Female Access to the Labor Market Over Transition: A Multicountry Analysis

Goraus, Karolina; Tyrowicz, Joanna - Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Uniwersytet Warszawski - 2013

This study evaluates quantitatively the context of gender discrimination in transition countries in terms of access to … the labor market. Over economic transition female labor market participation has generally weakened. Notwithstanding …, transition countries differ in institutional design, structural labor supply patterns, labor demand characteristics and the speed …

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What is the true gender wage gap? A comparative analysis using data from Poland

Velde, Lucas Van Der; Tyrowicz, Joanna; Goraus, Karolina - Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Uniwersytet Warszawski - 2013

Given the proliferation of methods to estimate gender wage gap, practical issues arise. The aim of this paper is to compare estimates of the adjusted wage gap from different methods and sets of conditioning variables. We apply available parametric and non-parametric methods to LFS data from...

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Teaching quality and decentralization

Jakubowski, Maciej - Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Uniwersytet Warszawski - 2009

This paper attempts to assess outcomes of school system decentralization in Poland. National examination results are analyzed using the value-added model of teaching quality. Variation in decentralized spending is related to estimates of achievement growth. Exploring exam results for three...

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Nonlinear Stochastic Convergence Analysis of Regional Unemployment Rates in Poland

Tyrowicz, Joanna; Wójcik, Piotr - Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Uniwersytet Warszawski - 2009

This paper analyses convergence of unemployment rates in Poland at NUTS4 level by testing nonlinear convergence, applying the modified KSS-CHLL for each pair of territorial units. The results suggest that actually the convergence is a rare phenomenon and occurs only in 1916 cases out of...

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Is the Impact Really That High? The Effect of FDI in Transition

Hagemejer, Jan; Tyrowicz, Joanna - Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Uniwersytet Warszawski - 2009

Literature is not clear on the effect of FDI on the economic performance in hosting countries. The analysed effects include productivity, propensity to export, access to financial markets, etc. Although foreign subsidiaries usually perform better than the average of the hosting economies,...

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Shadow Employment In Transition - A Matter of Choice or No Choice?

Cichocki, Stanisław; Tyrowicz, Joanna - Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Uniwersytet Warszawski - 2009

Shadow employment may follow from two main labour market failures. In the first, official market labour taxation distortions make it ineffective for some agents to engage in registered employment due to a tax wedge, which makes the revenues from unofficial employment higher than the...

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Not all that glitters. The direct effects of privatization through foreign investment

Hagemejer, Jan; Tyrowicz, Joanna - Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Uniwersytet Warszawski - 2010

Although foreign subsidiaries usually perform better than the average of the hosting economies, empirical literature has also established that the selection effect is statistically significant. In this paper we attempt to evaluate its economic relevance, using a unique dataset of annual...

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