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In 2007 and 2008 Polish governments introduced a series of reforms which led to a substantial reduction in the tax "wedge" (in Polish: "klin") on labour. We show that when considered together the package of introduced reforms brought much greater reductions in the tax burden compared to a widely...
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effect on the computed average. In this paper we demonstrate the extent of this problem using data for Poland for the period … 1996-2003. During these years employment in Poland fell from 51.2% to 44.2% and most of it occurred between the end of 1998 …
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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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We examine the relationship of child gender with family and economic outcomes using a large dataset from the Polish Household Budgets' Survey (PHBS) for years 2003-2009. Apart from studying the effects of gender on family stability, fertility and mothers' labor market outcomes, we take advantage...
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pension wealth created by Poland's 1999 pension reform. Using the 1997-2003 Polish Household Budget Surveys, we begin by …
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degree of state control over the labour market in the former Czechoslovakia compared to Poland and different characteristics …We analyze the extent and effects of job-related persecution under communist regimes in the Czech Republic and Poland …
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We estimate the causal relationship between family size and labour market outcomes for families in low fertility and low female employment regime. Family size is instrumented using twinning and gender composition of the first two children. Among families with at least one child we identify the...
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return data to reevaluate distributional consequences of the post-socialist transition in Poland. Our approach results in the … that over the last three decades Poland has become one of the most unequal European countries among those for which top …
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On 1 January 1999, four major reforms took effect in Poland in the areas of health, education, pensions and local … inclusiveness in the process of development is likely to be an important factor behind the stability of Poland's administrative …
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We show how significant may be the difference in the estimated returns to education in Poland conditional on the … conclusion. While there are several papers examining the wage equation in Poland, so far none of them has provided a … equation in Poland has not been examined in detail. Annual rates of return to university education for men vary from 6.7% to 9 …
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