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Shocked by therapy? : unemployment in the first years of the socio-economic transition in Poland and its long-term consequences

Myck, Michał; Oczkowska, Monika - 2018

We examine long-term implications of unemployment for material conditions and well-being using the Polish sample from … to examine their correlation with unemployment at the time of the transition. We find that becoming unemployed in the … confirm the causal effect of unemployment on income and house ownership 20 years later, but find no evidence for a long …

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Dynamics of poor health and non-employment

Haan, Peter; Myck, Michał - 2009

While there is little doubt that the probability of poor health increases with age, and that less healthy people face a more difficult situation on the labour market, the precise relationship between facing the risks of health deterioration and labour market instability is not well understood....

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Poorer health - shorter hours? : health and flexibility of hours of work

Geyer, Johannes; Myck, Michał - 2010

We analyse the role of health in determining the difference between desired and actual hours of work in a sample of German men using the Socio-Economic Panel Data for years 1996-2007. The effects of both self-assessed health and legal disability status are examined. About 60% of employees report...

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Count your hours : returns to education in Poland

Myck, Michał; Nicinska, Anna; Morawski, Leszek - 2009

We show how significant may be the difference in the estimated returns to education in Poland conditional on the measure of wages used and the estimation approach applied. Combining information from two different Polish surveys from 2005 and taking advantage of the Polish microsimulation model...

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Safety net still in transition : labour market incentive effects of extending social support in Poland

Haan, Peter (contributor); Myck, Michał (contributor) - 2007

Many aspects of the economic transition which started in 1989 in Poland are by now complete. However, the route Polish governments have so far taken concerning the system of support for low-income families still implies very different poverty alleviation schemes compared to those found in many...

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Employment fluctuations and dynamics of the aggregate average wage in Poland 1996 - 2003

Myck, Michał (contributor); Morawski, Leszek (contributor); … - 2006

The aggregate average wage is often used as an indicator of economic performance and welfare, and as such often serves as a benchmark for changes in the generosity of public transfers and for wage negotiations. Yet if economies experience a high degree of (nonrandom) fluctuation in employment...

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