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Productivity and Inequality Effects of Rapid Labor Reallocation – Insights from a Meta-Analysis of Studies on Transition
Svejnar, Jan; Tyrowicz, Joanna; Velde, Lucas van der - Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Uniwersytet Warszawski - 2015
period of massive and rapid labor reallocation, i.e. the economic transition from a centrally planned to a market …
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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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What Happened to the Middle Class in the New Market Economies? The Case of Croatia and Poland
Tomic, Iva; Tyrowicz, Joanna - In: Croatian Economic Survey 12 (2010) 1, pp. 9-44
Transition countries are believed to have undergone significant social and economic structural changes. Indeed, the … early transition resulted in the modification of ownership structure and recognized processes of labor reallocation as well … changes regarding the size and composition of the middle class in two transition countries, Croatia and Poland, in the period …
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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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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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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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Shadow Employment in Transition - A Matter of Choice or No Choice?
Cichocki, Stanislaw; Tyrowicz, Joanna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008603185
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008603193
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008603197