Research Projects conducted at the Department of Economics I

RESEARCH PROJECTS CONDUCTED AT THE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS I

prof. dr hab. Marek Góra

 research interests: 

  • pension economics
  • pension system reforms in Poland and in the world     
  • labour economics           
  • unemployment and its causes    
  • preventing unemployment
  • labour market studies  
  • health economics   

participation in research projects:

  • Economic and Social Consequences of Industrial Restructuring in Russia and Ukraine; leader WP8
  • Adequacy of Old-Age Income Maintenance in the EU

dr hab. Ewa Gałecka-Burdziak, prof. SGH

 research interests: 

  • labour economics
  • labour force participation
  • routes to non-participation
  • labour market policy
  • unemployment benefits
  • social policy
  • economics of crime

participation in research projects:

  • Mobility research grant Poland – Germany, Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange 2023-2024
  • “Registered unemployment as a non-traditional route to non-participation of older workers. Recurrent event longitudinal data analysis” (710820 PLN), National Science Centre, Poland, Principal Investigator 2019-2024
  • “The cyclicality of the labour force participation. The added/discouraged worker effect analysis” (192010 PLN), National Science Centre, Poland, Principal Investigator 2017-2018
  • “Data spatial aggregation in labour market matching” (880 USD), CERGE-EI Foundation, Principal Investigator 2015
  • “Significance of job seekers flows between states in the labour market” (85625 PLN), National Science Centre, Poland, Principal Investigator 2013 – 2015

dr hab. Iga Magda, prof. SGH

 research interests:

  • Labour Economics
  • Gender inequality
  • youth and the Labour market
  • family policy
  • collective bargaining

participation in research projects:

  • „GeNLaMO: Normy społeczne a sytuacja kobiet na rynku pracy” 07.2022 – 06.2025
  • “Paths2Include – European Labour Markets under Pressure. New Knowledge on Pathways to Include Persons in Vulnerable Situations”, 03.2023 – 02.2026
  • “Dlaczego Kobiety Zarabiają Mniej? Początki Losów Zawodowych Mężczyzn I Kobiet”: 02.2020 – 02.2023
  • “SHARE: Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, 2018 –2023
  • “EUSOCIALCIT: the state of social rights in Europe”, 2021-2025
  • “VIRAGE: Visualising and measuring the role of industrial relations in addressing gender equality”: 05.2020 – 10.2022
  • “Working time flexibility, personality traits and gender pay gaps”, 2018 – 2022
  • “Youth Employment Partnership: evaluation studies in Spain, Hungary, Italy and Poland” 2018-2022    

dr hab. Anna Ruzik-Sierdzińska, prof. SGH

 research interests: 

  • social security systems (primarily the pension systems)
  • labour market
  • analysis of social policies

participation in research projects:

  • Support for the implementation of panel surveys of people aged 50 and more in the international project Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), 2018-2022, financed by POWR.
  • Determinants of Educational Decisions - development of a methodology for integrated household panel research and analysis of empirical results, 2012-2015, project implemented at the Warsaw School of Economics, commissioned by the Educational Research Institute.
  • Calculator of Costs of Inaction - introduction of innovative solutions in Mazovia in the field of social policy in the area of analysis of the costs of not taking activating and supporting activities, 2012-2014, financing OP HC Priority VII.
  • Mobilizing The Potential of Active Aging in Europe, MoPAct, 2013-2017, a project funded by the European Commission under the 7th EU Framework Programme.
  • NEUJOBS - Employment 2025: How will multiple transitions affect the European labor market, co-implemented in 2011-2015 by CASE, grant 266833 - 7th EU Framework Program
  • The Policy Ideas and Practice of Active Aging, a project co-implemented by the Warsaw School of Economics in 2009-2013 - Grant Research Council of Norway
  • Mazowieckie Regional Research No. POKL.08.01.02-14-120/10 Project co-financed by the European Union under the ESF, implemented in partnership by CASE-Doradcy sp. z o.o.
  • Economic risk, savings and retirement decisions in aging societies - an empirical comparative analysis of Poland and Germany - Ministry of Science and Higher Education No. 320/N-DFG/2008/0
  • Adequacy of Old-Age Income Maintenance in the EU - project SP21-CT- 2005-513748
  • Poverty and social exclusion and methods of combating them - project PBZ-MIN-006/H02/2003

dr Sonia Buchholtz​

 research interests: 

  • labour economics
  • pension economics
  • family policies
  • demographic ageing
  • regional policy
  • physical activity

dr Janusz Jabłonowski

 research interests: 

  • Public sector and household’s related micro- and macroeconomics, with particular emphasis on the subject of long-term stability.
  • Modeling the energy transition in general equilibrium and microsimulation.

participation in research projects:

  • Cooperation in the research project: Support for the implementation of panel research of people aged 50 and more in the international project Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)” implemented by the Ministry of Family and Social Policy in co-operation with the Warsaw School of Economics. The project is co-financed by the European Social Fund (PO WER).

dr Michał Gradzewicz

 research interests:  

  • macroeconomics
  • business cycle theory
  • general equilibrium modelling
  • econometric modelling
  • labour economics and search models

participation in research projects:

  • Economic analysis of the economy and individual markets in the context of the crisis that started in 2007

dr Izabela Sobiech Pellegrini

 research interests: 

  • Human capital, demographic changes and long-term income
  • Econometric modelling
  • Impact of energy prices on the level of prices and wages in the economy
  • Public debt stability analysis
.