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This paper analyzes the evolution of inequality in Poland during the economic transition that began in 1989-90. Using …
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We document changes in the structure of earnings during the economic transition in Poland. We find that inequality in … substantially, and by similar amounts. This illustrates how even state-owned enterprises in Poland moved towards competitive wage …, in contrast to the U.S. and U.K. experiences, increases in within-group inequality in Poland were very different across …
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Using Polish Labour Force Survey data, we examine whether competition for labour has induced individual pay to depend on outside options, availability and quality of jobs. Exploiting the lack of inter-regional job and worker flows we estimate the elasticity of individual pay, amongst a rich set...
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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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living Poland. The empirical analysis is made possible due to a unique and under explored longitudinal survey - Social …
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identify main drivers of highly skilled migration within Poland. Following the findings of earlier studies, we argue that the …
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This paper studies regional unemployment inequality in Poland. We find that higher unemployment regions are those … job destruction in Poland. Econometric analysis of the determinants of employment to unemployment flows reinforces this …
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In this paper we document and analyse gross job flows in five transition countries, Poland, Estonia, Slovenia, Bulgaria …
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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 changes in relative wage and unemployment differentials for various...
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