Projects funded by the Polish National Science Centre (NCN)

Posted on July 25, 2019 | Projects

Changing times: work and out of work time-use dynamics in the context of technological changes and global shocks
Duration: January 2026 – December 2028
Principal Investigator: Michał Myck
Project information: NCN website

Material Conditions and Older Age Wellbeing in Germany and Poland: Institutional and Regional Variation in Individual Risks and Insurance Mechanisms
Duration: February 2020 – February 2024
Principal Investigators: Michał Myck (CenEA) & Martina Brandt (TU Dortmund)
Project information: NCN website
Main publications:
“Income and well-being in old age: The role of local contextual factors”, The Journal of the Economics of Ageing
“Homeownership and the perception of material security in old age”, Applied Economics
“Temporal Discounting in Later Life”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
“Deaths during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: insights from regional patterns in Germany and Poland”, BMC Public Health

Labour market policy and pre-retirement employment dynamics
Duration: January 2019 – January 2022
Principal Investigator: Michał Myck
Project information: NCN website
Main publications:
“Home alone: Widows’ well-being and time”, Journal of Happiness Studies
“Labor Market Externalities of Pre-retirement Employment Protection”, NBER Working Paper 32371

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”, Economics of Transition and Institutional Change
“Lights along the frontier: convergence of economic activity in the proximity of the Polish-German border, 1992–2012”, 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”, The Economics of Transition
“Healthier over time? Period effects in health among older Europeans in a step-wise approach to identification”, Social Science & Medicine

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”, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
“Who gets to look nice and who gets to play? Effects of child gender on household expenditures”, 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
Main publications:
“For some mothers more than others”, The Economics of Transition
“Financial incentives to work in the context of a complex reform package and growing wages: the Polish experience 2005-2011”, Baltic Journal of Economics