Projects funded by the Polish National Science Centre (NCN)
Material Conditions and Older Age Wellbeing in Germany and Poland: Institutional and Regional Variation in Individual Risks and Insurance Mechanisms
Duration: February 2020 – February 2022
Principal Investigators: Michał Myck (CenEA) & Martina Brandt (TU Dortmund)
Project information: NCN website, AGE-WELL project website
Labour market policy and pre-retirement employment dynamics
Duration: January 2019 – January 2022
Principal Investigator: Michał Myck
Project information: NCN website
Administrative changes as tools in identification of causes behind disparities in regional development.
Duration: January 2017 – April 2019
Principal Investigator: Michał Myck
Project information: NCN website
Main publications:
“Implications of the Polish 1999 administrative reform for regional socio-economic development” in Economics of Transition and Institutional Change
“Lights along the frontier: convergence of economic activity in the proximity of the Polish-German border, 1992–2012” in Applied Economics
A quarter century later: long term consequences of the “shock therapy” at individual level.
Duration: January 2016 – July 2019
Principal Investigator: Michał Myck
Project information: NCN website
Main publications:
“Shocked by therapy? Unemployment in the first years of the socio‐economic transition in Poland and its long‐term consequences” in The Economics of Transition
Examining the life-cycle theory of consumption: expenditure patterns of Polish households before and after retirement.
Duration: February 2013 – December 2014
Principal Investigator: Michał Myck
Project information: NCN website
Main publications:
“The Effect of Public Pension Wealth on Saving and Expenditure” in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
“Who gets to look nice and who gets to play? Effects of child gender on household expenditures” in Review of Economics of the Household
Stability of labour supply elasticity in the context of high wage growth dynamics and important labour tax reforms in Poland 2005-2009
Duration: May 2011 – February 2014
Principal Investigator: Michał Myck
Project information: NCN website
Main publications:
“For some mothers more than others” in The Economics of Transition
“Financial incentives to work in the context of a complex reform package and growing wages: the Polish experience 2005-2011” in Baltic Journal of Economics