This study compares the structure and determinants of inter-industry wage differentials in Eastern and Western European countries (namely Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Spain compared with Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia). To do so, we use a...

Using a large matched employer-employee dataset, the authors investigate the relationship between collective agreements, wages and restructuring in transition in three former centrally planned economies (Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland). They adopt a natural experiment approach and capture...

In this paper I study the earnings mobility in Poland and in the UK. Using both transition matrices and a wage mobility index I rst document changes in the overall wage mobility in Poland across time, then compare mobility patterns among Polish and British employees. I focus in particular on low...

This Report is a third in the series Employment in Poland. It consists of four Parts, devoted to empirical analysis of the impact of macroeconomic shocks on EU New Member States labour markets‘ in 1996-2006; utilization of flexible forms of employment on Polish labor market, determinants of wages...

Using a large matched employer-employee dataset, the authors investigate the relationship between collective agreements, wages and restructuring in transition in three former centrally planned economies (Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland). They adopt a natural experiment approach and capture...

Position of females on the European labour market has improved strongly over the past two decades. Changes in women’s employment were not only positive, but also managed to alleviate the negative developments in male employment rates, becoming thus a major driving force behind the efforts to...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of the minimum wage on the risk of job separation and changes in working hours among young people in Poland. To this end, we use longitudinal data from the Labour Force Survey 2003-2011 and a difference-in-differences matching estimator based on...

Celem artykułu jest zbadanie relacji zdrowia i zatrudnienia oraz dynamiki produktywności w cyklu życia, mierzonej poziomem indywidualnych wynagrodzeń zgodnie z podejściem neoklasycznym. Analizujemy, jak kształtuje się zatrudnienie i dynamika płac według wieku dla osób z różnym...

We provide a comparative cross-country analysis of individual age-wage proles for different health statuses. Using semi-parametric regressions run on EU-SILC data we aim at answering the question on the relationship b etween individual health and pro ductivity and its changes in the life cycle,...