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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(12/2023)419. Structural Labour Market Change and Gender Inequality in Earnings

Authors: Matysiak Anna, Hardy Wojciech, van der Velde Lucas Augusto
Research from the US argues that women will benefit from a structural labour market change as the importance of social tasks increases and that of manual tasks declines. This article contributes to this discussion in three ways: (a) by extending the …

WP419. Structural Labour Market Change and Gender Inequality in Earnings

Research from the US argues that women will benefit from a structural labour market change as the importance of social tasks increases and that of manual tasks declines. This article contributes to this discussion in three ways: (a) by extending the standard framework of task content of occupations in order to account for diversity of social tasks; (b) by developing measures of occupational task content tailored to the European context; and (c) by testing this argument in 13 European countries. Data are analysed from the European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations Database and the European Structure of Earnings Survey. The analysis demonstrates that relative to men the structural labour market change improves earnings potential of women working in low- and middle-skilled occupations but not those in high-skilled occupations. Women are overrepresented in low paid social tasks (e.g. care) and are paid less for analytical tasks than men.


Matysiak Anna, Hardy Wojciech, van der Velde Lucas Augusto
task content of occupations care work wages gender Europe

WP(3/2022)379. Is running a marathon like running a business? Identifying occupational differences in overconfidence using long-distance running data

Authors: Amirkhanyan Hayk, Krawczyk Michał, Wilamowski Maciej
It is often claimed that certain career choices, notably running a business, are associated with excessive confidence in own capabilities. Such a link could partly explain e.g., the surprisingly high number of unsuccessful start-ups. We verify these …

WP379. Is running a marathon like running a business? Identifying occupational differences in overconfidence using long-distance running data

It is often claimed that certain career choices, notably running a business, are associated with excessive confidence in own capabilities. Such a link could partly explain e.g., the surprisingly high number of unsuccessful start-ups. We verify these claims in a sample of marathon runners. We take starting too fast and then slowing down in a marathon race as a proxy for overconfidence. In a sample of over 50 thousand runners, we match marathon pacing data with job titles that are partly reported by the runners themselves and partly identified by us (using runners’ names, years of birth, and places of residence to find their personal web sites, social media profiles etc., whenever possible). We observe that job categories have a significant impact on slowing down (as a proxy for overconfidence), also when we control for observable demographic factors (such as age, gender, place of residence). In particular, entrepreneurs tend to be more overconfident than the general population.


Amirkhanyan Hayk, Krawczyk Michał, Wilamowski Maciej
overconfidence slowdown occupational differences gender differences selection into professions

WP(23/2020)329. Are Poles stuck in overeducation? Individual dynamics of educational mismatch in Poland

Authors: Baran Jan Aleksander
The paper investigates persistency of overeducation from individual perspective. Following aspects of mobility are analysed: probability of staying in employment, upward occupational mobility and wage dynamics. Data for Poland are used. The results s…

WP329. Are Poles stuck in overeducation? Individual dynamics of educational mismatch in Poland

The paper investigates persistency of overeducation from individual perspective. Following aspects of mobility are analysed: probability of staying in employment, upward occupational mobility and wage dynamics. Data for Poland are used. The results show that overeducated individuals are more likely to stay in employment compared to their properly matched colleagues. The overeducated workers as well as undereducated ones tend to move toward jobs for which they are more properly matched. However, the rate of this adjustment is low and one can fairly claim that in Poland overeducation is a persistent phenomenon from individual perspective. In line with other studies, the overeducated workers are found to experience faster wage growth compared to properly matched individuals. However, it can be largely attributed to overeducated workers improving their match status over time. It means that initially overeducated workers can expect faster wage growth than properly matched workers especially when they move to jobs requiring more schooling.


Baran Jan Aleksander
overeducation educational mismatch occupational mobility earnings mobility

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

WP(9/2011)49. Does a change of occupation lead to higher earnings?

Authors: Pęczkowski Marek, Liberda Zofia Barbara
The aim of this paper is to identify how the mobility between different types of broadly defined occupation (hired work, self-employment in industry, services and agriculture or social security beneficiaries) changes personal income of individuals. W…

WP49. Does a change of occupation lead to higher earnings?

The aim of this paper is to identify how the mobility between different types of broadly defined occupation (hired work, self-employment in industry, services and agriculture or social security beneficiaries) changes personal income of individuals. We apply the Markov matrices to the panel data on 30540 individuals for 2007-2008 from the Polish Household Budget Surveys. Our hypothesis is that a change of occupation affects individual capability to earn income, controlling for the occupation a person quits and the occupation a person starts, as well as age, education level and a permanent or temporary character of work. We test our hypothesis using the regression analysis. Our results show that the inter-occupational mobility matters mostly for those quitting hired work for self-employment, for the better educated, as well as for respondents above 60 years of age.


Pęczkowski Marek, Liberda Zofia Barbara
income earning mobility occupation hired work self-employment
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