All Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries have ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability. This will force changes in taxes and benefits related to disability. The final result of that process is unknown. To learn about possible changes, we compare...

The paper discusses tax and benefit instruments for people with disabilities and their carers for European countries from two opposing groups. Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries spend a relatively small part of their GDP on disability, and tax and benefit instruments play a significant...

In Poland, between 2005 and 2019, the share of employees with tertiary education increased by around ten percentage points among men and by around 18 percentage points among women. To find out how this affected relative material poverty and income inequality, we combined the decomposition based...

We analyze changes in poverty from 2005 to 2019. We determine the contribution of tax and benefit changes to poverty change and identify the proportion of poverty change that would have occurred had these policies not changed. We consider six categories of families. We show that even after...

In the paper, the impulsive buying phenomenon taking place in big selfservice shops is described. By means of the Multiproduct Monopoly Model that can be applied to the super- and hypermarkets, formal grounds are shown for reduction in prices of basic products below the profitmaximizing level,...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to calculate the subjective equivalence scale and poverty rates for Poland and compare them to equivalence scales in Eastern and Western Europe. Design/methodology/approach The analysis is based on European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions...

How individual wages change with time, and how they are expected to change as individuals grow older, is one of crucial determinants of their behaviour on the labour market including their decision to retire. The profile of individual hourly wages has for a long time been assumed to follow an...