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The WNE Working Papers series has been published by the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the University of Warsaw since 2008.

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WP(7/2025)470. The Impact of Railway on the Regional Economic Development and Social Mobility in the Congress Kingdom of Poland

Authors: Koryś Piotr, Marcin Wroński
We estimate the impact of railway construction on local populations in Russian Poland in the 19th century. The initial wave of railway expansion outpaced economic demand. From the late 1860s onward, locations connected to the railway network experien…

WP470. The Impact of Railway on the Regional Economic Development and Social Mobility in the Congress Kingdom of Poland

We estimate the impact of railway construction on local populations in Russian Poland in the 19th century. The initial wave of railway expansion outpaced economic demand. From the late 1860s onward, locations connected to the railway network experienced significantly higher population growth. The economic effects of the connection to the railway network increased over time. State-funded military railway lines generated a smaller impact than private-owned lines. We also study the impact of the railway connection on social mobility proxied through a number of notable people born in a given city. However, we do not identify any robust impact.
 


DOI: https://doi.org/10.33138/2957-0506.2025.7.470
Koryś Piotr, Marcin Wroński
economic history Russian Poland economic growth railways

WP(3/2025)466. The Economic Growth and Regional Convergence in Interwar Poland: Detailed Historical National Accounts

Authors: Bukowski Maciej, Kowalski Michał, Marcin Wroński
We provide the first estimate of the Polish national, regional and sectoral GDP in the interwar period. We find that the Polish economy's performance in the interwar period was much better than it was assumed before. In the years 1924 – 193…

WP466. The Economic Growth and Regional Convergence in Interwar Poland: Detailed Historical National Accounts

We provide the first estimate of the Polish national, regional and sectoral GDP in the interwar period. We find that the Polish economy's performance in the interwar period was much better than it was assumed before. In the years 1924 – 1938, the real GDP per capita increased by almost 40% or by 2.3% annually. As economic growth was stronger in the poorer regions significant regional convergence was achieved. Our results challenge the dominant narrative about the weak performance of the Polish economy in the interwar years.


DOI: https://doi.org/10.33138/2957-0506.2025.3.466
Bukowski Maciej, Kowalski Michał, Marcin Wroński
economic history Poland Great Depression regional convergence economic growth

WP(2/2018)261. Economic growth on the periphery: Estimates of GDP per capita of the Congress Kingdom of Poland (for years 1870−1912)

Authors: Koryś Piotr, Tymiński Maciej
This paper presents the estimates of the GDP of Congress Kingdom of Poland for period 1870−1912. Authors used bottom-up methodology and calculated sectoral added values using historical economic, social and demographic data. Presented results o…

WP261. Economic growth on the periphery: Estimates of GDP per capita of the Congress Kingdom of Poland (for years 1870−1912)

This paper presents the estimates of the GDP of Congress Kingdom of Poland for period 1870−1912. Authors used bottom-up methodology and calculated sectoral added values using historical economic, social and demographic data. Presented results offer first ever insight into the structure of sectoral added values in the Congress Kingdom of Poland during the period of first globalization (1870−1913) and first reliable estimates of GDP of Congress Kingdom of Poland. All results are presented in Geary-Khamis dollars PPP1990 and are compatible with Maddison dataset.


DOI: http://doi.org.10.26405/WP/WNE/2018/261/002
Koryś Piotr, Tymiński Maciej
Congress Kingdom of Poland Poland 19th century economic history economic history of Poland little divergence estimates of historical GDP

WP(9/2015)157. Occupational structure in the Polish territories at the turn of the 20th (1895-1900) century

Authors: Koryś Piotr, Tymiński Maciej
Authors present the occupational structure of Polish lands at the turn of 20th century on the basis of censuses carried out in Germany (1895), Russia (1897) and Austria (1900). Our research provides corrections to the errors of the censuses, to a con…

WP157. Occupational structure in the Polish territories at the turn of the 20th (1895-1900) century

Authors present the occupational structure of Polish lands at the turn of 20th century on the basis of censuses carried out in Germany (1895), Russia (1897) and Austria (1900). Our research provides corrections to the errors of the censuses, to a considerable extent. As a result, we present an occupational structure that allows a more complete the picture of the economic situation in the Polish territories at the end of the 19th century. The conducted research has created an opportunity to partially verify the assumption, which is common in Polish economical historiography, that a technological turning point and an industrial revolution occurred in Polish lands already in the 1870s and 1880s. Revised census data demonstrated that the extent of industrialization in Polish lands was still very limited in 1900.


Koryś Piotr, Tymiński Maciej
economic history Polish lands occupational structure industrialization backwardness
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