Using an interdisciplinary research apparatus, the author conducts an economic analysis of labor market regulations, focusing on Polish collective labor law in the field of trade unions, strikes and employee participation. Above all, the theoretical framework of considerations is institutional economics and economic analysis of law.
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Costs related to undertaking studies are one of the less studied aspects of the growing interest in higher education in Poland. Every year, hundreds of thousands of households in Poland allocate considerable funds for this purpose. In order to continue their education, young people not only invest heavily, but also often postpone the decision to enter the labor market, and thus lose the income from work that they could obtain by becoming professionally active after graduating from secondary school. At the same time, significant funds for higher education are allocated by the state. The presented results of the analyzes were prepared as part of the research project "Social and economic determinants of study choices of people aged 19–30", carried out by a team from the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the University of Warsaw on behalf of the Educational Research Institute.The authors identify the mechanisms involved in contacts between the four main stakeholders of the higher education process: public and private universities, students (and their households) and the state. Using the latest methodological approaches in the field of experimental economics and conditional choice, they attempt to measure the size, structure and differentiation of higher education costs from the perspective of both the student and the university.
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The author presents an innovative understanding of parallel economic convergence and proposes alternative methods of its measurement. The authors discusses examples of empirical studies that make use of the concept of parallel convergence in different contexts.
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The book contains a review of methods that enable the regular observation and analysis of inflation expectations based on consumer survey data. It also includes an evaluation of their usefulness in macroeconomic inference. The need for measuring inflation expectations arises predominantly from the necessity of an empirical verification of various models of formulating expectations and testing the impact of expectations on price changes in the economy. It seems especially important to draw attention to the need of applying different methods of measuring expectations and taking into account the limitations of the methods used when interpreting the results. Also of great significance is the comparison of the characteristics of inflation expectations of consumers in Poland and in the euro area.
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The book discusses statistical properties of the Propensity Score Matching method in a small sample. It compares the various joining estimators using small-sample probability on the basis of simulation. The estimators used to estimate the Average Treatment Effects (ATE) and the Average Treatment Effect on the Treated (ATT) are compared.
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The goal of this book is to introduce Polish readers to methodological details related to the construction of regional computable general equilibrium (CGE) models. Here, we use as an example Polish version of TERM (The Enormous Regional Model) calibrated for 16 voivodships. Currently, regional computable general equilibrium models are among the models most often used in evaluating the effects of macroeconomic policies at different levels of territorial aggregation. In order to popularize such models in Poland, we present the methodology of TERM model and examples of its application to analyze different kinds of policies and their regional impacts in Poland.The book should increase knowledge about construction, theoretical foundations and methods for interpreting the results of such models. Currently, relatively few specialists in Poland have such knowledge. Hence, this book is recommended for both economists, interested in conducting their own research based on regional CGE models, and practitioners who use in their work results of analyses relying on this kind of macroeconomic models.The structure of the book is as follows. In Chapter 1 we thoroughly discuss TERM methodological framework, calibration and regional disaggregation process. Following chapters present examples of applying TERM in analysis of the effects of different macroeconomic policies in Poland. Chapter 2 shows the consequences of Less Favored Area support within the Common Agricultural Policy in Poland, based on the static version of the model. Chapter 3 concentrates on assessment of the impact of R&D investment on economic development at national and regional level in Poland. Finally, Chapter 4 covers an analysis of effectiveness of support received from the European Union revolving financial instruments in Wielkopolska voivodeship. The analysis is conducted using dynamic version of TERM model.
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