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From Partial to Full Universality: The Family 500+ Programme in Poland and Its Labour Supply Implications
The implementation of the ‘Family 500+’ programme in April 2016 represented a significant shift in public support for fa…
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Unemployment in Transition and Its Long-Term Consequences
We examine the relationship between the experience of unemployment in the early years of the socio-economic transition i…
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Labor Market Adaptation of Internally Displaced People: The Ukrainian Experience
This brief is based on research that investigates the probability of employment among displaced and non-displaced househ…
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Career Women and the Family – A New Perspective on the Role of Minimum Wage
This brief finds that whereas in the 1980s richer women had fewer children than women near the middle of income distribu…
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School Financing, Teacher Wages and Educational Outcomes in Russia
The policy proposal to increase the share of budget spent on public education implies that higher financing leads to bet…
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Individual Retirement Timing in Russia: Implications for Pension Age
This policy brief summarizes the findings in a paper where individual exit trajectories of Russians from the labor marke…
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Paid Work after Retirement – Does Quality of Your Main Job in the Past Matter?
In this brief, we summarize the results of a recent analysis focused on identifying the key determinants of engagement i…
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Intergenerational Mobility of Russian Households
To understand the nature of income inequality one needs to know how persistent the inequality is across generations. The…
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Gaming the System: Side Effects of Earnings-Dependent Benefits
Today policy makers in developing and middle-income countries face tremendous challenges in combating various forms of t…
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