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Adena, Maja - 2013

find that poverty defined with respect to relative incomes has no effect on changes in health. However, broader measures of … poor material conditions such as subjective poverty or low relative value of wealth significantly increase the probability … analysed.In addition to this the subjective measure of poverty has a significant effect on mortality, increasing it by 40 …

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As SIMPL As That : Introducing a Tax-Benefit Microsimulation Model for Poland

Bargain, Olivier; Morawski, Leszek; Myck, Michal; … - 2021

The Polish tax and benefit system is presented in the context of a recently developed microsimulation model, SIMPL. The model allows simulating direct taxes, social contributions and public benefits in Poland for the years 2003 and 2005. It is based on the Household Budgets Survey data (Badania...

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Reevaluating Distributional Consequences of the Transition to Market Economy in Poland : New Results from Combined Household Survey and Tax Return Data

Brzeziński, Michał - 2019

We use Pareto imputation, survey reweighting, and microsimulation methods applied to combined household survey and tax return data to reevaluate distributional consequences of the post-socialist transition in Poland. Our approach results in the first estimates of top-corrected inequality trends...

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Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-Employment

Haan, Peter - 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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Homeownership and the Perception of Material Security in Old Age

Garten, Claudius; Myck, Michal; Oczkowska, Monika - 2022

Homeownership has been shown to be related to various aspects of well-being, although both the causal nature of this relationship and the possible channels behind it have been difficult to identify. We focus on one of the most often quoted mechanisms which could be responsible for the positive...

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Widows' Time, Time Stress and Happiness : Adjusting to Loss

Hamermesh, Daniel; Myck, Michal; Oczkowska, Monika - 2022

By age 77 a plurality of women in wealthy Western societies are widows. Comparing older (aged 70+) married women to widows in the American Time Use Survey 2003-18 and linking the data to the Current Population Survey allow inferring the short- and longer-term effects of an arguably exogenous...

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Home Alone : Widows' Well-Being and Time

Adena, Maja; Hamermesh, Daniel; Myck, Michal; … - 2023

Losing a partner is a life-changing experience. We draw on numerous datasets to examine differences between widowed and partnered older women and to provide a comprehensive picture of well-being in widowhood. Most importantly, our analysis accounts for time use in widowhood, an aspect which has...

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Safety Net Still in Transition: Labour Market IncentiveEffects of Extending Social Support in Poland

Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

governments have so far taken concerning the systemof support for low-income families still implies very different poverty …

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The Effect of Public Pension Wealth on Saving and Expenditure

Lachowska, Marta - 2015

In order to study whether public pension systems displace private saving, we use the quasi-experimental variation in pension wealth created by Poland's 1999 pension reform. Using the 1997–2003 Polish Household Budget Surveys, we begin by estimating "difference-in-differences" regressions,...

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Multi-Family Households in a Labour Supply Model : A Calibration Method with Application to Poland

Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - 2021

The collective model of labour supply opened the household "black box" and allowed for individual treatment of partners in couples. However, the literature on labour supply has so far largely ignored a broader issue with special relevance to transition and developing countries - the distinction...

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