Robert PaterUniversity of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow Poland · Department of Economics and Finance
Robert Pater
Ph.D. | dr hab.
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Dynamic digitalisation has a profound impact on labour markets, leading to routinisation and job polarisation processes. Most studies on labour polarisation use employment data to track changes in labour demand and incomes across routine and non-routine jobs. In this paper we utilise a database of onli...
This chapter identifies the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Polish labour market, covering a 95-week period since the first COVID-19 case in Poland was reported and a similar period before the pandemic outburst. Recently, online job postings have been utilised to analyse the impact of COVID-19 on labour demand. In general, perceptive cont...
We analyse labour demand and mismatch for educational traits in information and communication technology (ICT) occupations, taking into account the areas of education, occupations and skills in demand, and the supply of labour. We based our analysis on almost 40 million online job offers and a CAWI survey of people aged 18–65 in Poland. The analysi...
This paper uses the methodological scheme of contingency tables to explore polarisation in the Polish labour market. We use a large database of online job offers published on selected Polish job portals in the period 2017–2019, whereas most of the studies on the polarisation hypothesis are based on employment data. The main advantage of our microda...
On-line job offers published on selected Polish job portals in 2017-2019 are used to map skills requirements in task-content groups of jobs proposed by Autor et al. (2003). The analysis is rooted in the concept of Lazear’s skills weights and labour market polarisation. With the use of sequence analysis and logistic regression we identify the transv...
Research background: We analyse the added worker effect (AWE) and the discouraged worker effect (DWE) from an aggregate perspective. The first effect refers to an increase in labour force participation in response to a decrease in the wage rate. The second effect refers to the decision by workers who have been unsuccessful in their job search to le...
In this article we describe a study aimed at estimating job vacancy statistics, in particular the number of entities with at least one vacancy. To achieve this goal, we propose an alternative approach to the methodology exploiting survey data, which is based solely on data from administrative registers and online sources and relies on dual system e...
We study the long-run relationship between unemployment and the labour force participation rate while accounting for potential non-linearities. We explore two sources of non-linearities: structural breaks (as we allow the relationship to be time-varying) and differences by gender groups. We apply a novel approach, as we extend the cointegration ana...
This study analyses online job advertisements collected by Cedefop in a pan-European approach. The main objective of the study is to develop estimator(s) for the number of job vacancies from data on online job advertisements taking into account the differences in the statistical unit and coverage. Although there are promising results for certain co...
In the article we describe an enhancement to the Demand for Labour (DL) survey conducted by Statistics Poland, which involves the inclusion of skills obtained from online job advertisements. The main goal is to provide estimates of the demand for skills (competences), which is missing in the DL survey. To achieve this, we apply a data integration a...
The aim of the article is to present a modified and extended version of a jobs calculator – a tool used to perform simulations of the relationship between the unemployment and employment rates while adopting different assumptions regarding the potential trends in Poles’ professional activity and in shaping the size of Poland’s population. The user...
We examine whether discouraged and added worker effects are state-dependent, business cycle phase-dependent, or change stochastically. We use quarterly LFS data for the 1995–2016 period for Poland. Labor force participation rate behaves non-linearly. The change is rapid and connected to the stable value of the cyclical unemployment rate. An unemplo...
In the article we describe an enhancement to the Demand for Labour (DL) survey conducted by Statistics Poland, which involves the inclusion of skills obtained from online job advertisements. The main goal is to provide estimates of the demand for skills (competences), which is missing in the DL survey. To achieve this, we apply a data integration a...
The article presents the framework and results of research on the skills demand in Poland. The author used data from job offers published by employers, data from the Study of Human Capital in Poland, data from other, one-time research and the conclusions in the documents of selected institutions. The results show that there is a great need for syst...
The paper contributes to the literature on the public sector optimal size. The most common approach to measure the optimal size of the public sector is based on government expenditures. The authors propose a broader approach to public sector size measurement and define it by the share in the gross value of fixed assets and the share in employment....
The purpose of this study is to identify the determinants of innovation of enterprises in
the Regional Innovation System context. We analyse factors that determine regional innovation in a less developed region, taking the Podkarpackie region in Poland as our empirical counterpart. We examine how the EU economic policy instruments influence the inn...
We analyse efficiency of a labour market matching process at different levels of territorial aggregation and in different time horizons. We apply a stochastic matching frontier to random, job queuing and stock-flow models. We use data for Poland, a country with highly regionally diversified unemployment. We find that search and matching mechanisms...
There is an increasing need for analysing the demand for skills in the labour market. While most studies aggregate skills in groups or use available proxies for them, the authors analyse the demand by employers for individual competences. Such an analysis better reflects reality because companies usually require job candidates to have particular co...
Social media has become a source of information for individuals making decisions in financial institutions worldwide. As a part of Business Intelligence systems, platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn provide financial market professionals with a magnitude of market data-for example, stock price expectations, customer insights, and market...
The aim of the article is to present the concept of a job calculator — a tool used to create a simulation of relations between changes in the economic situation and the labour market in Poland. The job calculator is based on the American Jobs Calculator and is available for everyone. The user determines the height of expected unemployment rate and...
To meet general objectives of the article, i.e. to check the extent to which the information needs of financial market institutions are satisfied, and to learn about whether there is a transition in this realm triggered by the advent of social media and big data, we surveyed a sample of 415 financial market professionals working in Poland. We also...
We examine the extent to which spatial interactions affect the labour market matching process at the regional level using three frameworks: random, stock-flow, and job-queuing. We study the underexplored, regionally diversified former transition country of Poland at the LAU-1 level over the 2003-2014 time period using registered monthly data. We em...
Streszczenie. Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie koncepcji kalkulatora pracy-narzędzia służącego do tworzenia symulacji zależności pomiędzy zmianami sytuacji gospodarczej a rynkiem pracy w Polsce. Kalkulator pracy opiera się na amerykańskim Jobs Calculator i jest ogólnodostępny. Użytkownik określa wartość oczekiwanej stopy bezrobocia, a narzędzie w...
The influence of intangible capital on the economic growth in Poland has never been thoroughly analysed. This article contains estimates of the production function with intangible capital and provides growth accounting extended to the intangible capital. We present the estimates of intangible capital formation for 1995-2013 in Poland. We supply pre...
The theoretical Beveridge curve has a negative slope and is convex to the origin, a relationship most often associated to the short run. However, search and matching theory indicates that certain shocks may affect unemployment and vacancies in the same way. I trace the effects of both types of shocks affecting the vacancy rate and the unemployment...
In recent years classic financial market theory based on decision makers’ rationality has been challenged by repeated anomalies that became a ‘new normal’. As a result, what we witness today is a considerable turn to behavioral concepts that can shed a new light on choices made by market participants. The astonishing development of social media acc...
Reprezentacyjne badania wolnych miejsc pracy nie dostarczają pełnej informacji o strukturze wakatów. Celem artykułu jest zaprezentowanie dodatkowych informacji o wolnych miejscach pracy, które mogą dostarczyć internetowe oferty pracy. Są to przede wszystkim dane na temat struktury wakatów w wielu przekrojach, a w szczególności według kierunku kszta...
The aim of this article is to interpret levels of intangible capital in Poland and in eastern European economies, as well as its role in their development. Authors provide some explanations of the so-called middle income trap in terms of intangible capital deficiency and structure. They also discuss caveats of intangible capital measurement. The an...
Celem opracowania jest ocena sytuacji gospodarczej w Polsce Wschodniej na tle kraju. Termin Polska Wschodnia używamy zgodnie z Programem Polska Wschodnia. W jego ramach wydzielono pięć województw (regionów poziomu NUTS-2): świętokrzyskie, podkarpackie, lubelskie, podlaskie i warmińsko-mazurskie. Niniejsza publikacja jest raportem diagnostycznym. Za...
We test whether the discouraged worker or added worker effect prevails in the Polish labour market. The discouraged worker effect implies that the participation rate is procyclical with respect to the GDP and countercyclical with respect to the unemployment rate. The added worker effect yields contrary findings. We analyse the period 1994–2014 with...
Celem artykułu jest charakterystyka podaży wolnych miejsc pracy w Polsce w latach 2007–2014. W artykule opisano badanie na temat dostępności wolnych miejsc pracy na rynku oraz zmian w czasie na tle sytuacji gospodarczej w latach 2007–2014. Analizy dokonano opierając się na różnych zbiorach danych: GUS, PSZ (Publiczne Służby Zatrudnienia) oraz BOP (...
The objective of this article is to analyze and classify European Union (EU) regions according to human capital and innovativeness. Innovativeness of 225 EU NUTS-2 regions within 2008-2010 is analyzed with special attention paid to human capital. Eighteen indicators of innovativeness and human capital were adapted and transformed into four mutually...
A measure of economic development for regions is proposed in the form of a multicomponent index. This measure is composed of the following aspects: technology, infrastructure, human capital and social capital and defined by an array of indicators. Such a measure has significant advantages over the most commonly used indicator of GDP per capita. The...
Innowacje i innowacyjność to jedne z najmodniejszych dzisiaj i zdecydowanie nadużywanych terminów. Można odnieść wrażenie, że innowacyjność jako taka staje się imperatywem działania czy wręcz wartością samą w sobie. Czym jest innowacja i właściwie na czym polega innowacyjność, czy tylko nowym, a może przede wszystkim lepszym rozwiązaniem? Niestety,...
It is widely known that various sectors of an economy may react differently to the business cycle, and, on the other hand, it may be affected by sector-specific shocks. Not much light has been shed so far on the impact of the business cycle on the structure of an economy, and vice versa. This study models and empirically tests the relationship, usi...
Business cycles are highly irregular fluctuations in economic activity. This article attempts to determine
whether there are some properties of business cycles that can make them look more regular. This is done
by analysing business cycle dynamics, especially by employing and adjusting to contemporary business
cycle analysis the theories of growth...
In the article a concept of comparing public and private sector effectiveness is presented. It is based on an analysis of the productivity of capital and labour in both sectors. For this purpose, the authors build growth model in the general and intensive form, taking into account public and private sectors and their relationships in terms of gross...
Głównym celem monitoringu Regionalnej Strategii Innowacji Województwa Podkarpackiego jest bieżące dostarczanie niezbędnych informacji o trendach innowacyjności regionu oraz postępach wdrażania Strategii, które pozwolą głównym decydentom w województwie poprawić jakość i efektywność wdrażania strategii. Identyfikacja elementów Regionalnego Systemu In...
Fuel prices on the global market as well as petroleum prices and diesel prices on national markets have a significant impact on how economies function. On the one hand these prices show a long-run tendency (a trend), on the other hand they are subjected to various types of shocks, that create fluctuations around the trend. Those shocks could have a...
Głównym celem monitoringu Regionalnej Strategii Innowacji Województwa Podkarpackiego jest bieżące dostarczanie niezbędnych informacji o trendach innowacyjności regionu oraz postępach wdrażania Strategii, które pozwolą głównym decydentom w województwie poprawić jakość i efektywność wdrażania strategii. Identyfikacja elementów Regionalnego Systemu In...
Innovations are considered to be one of the most progressive determinants of socio-economic growth, also in the territorial, regional and local perspective [Niedzielski, Jadźwiński, 2002]. The challenge of regional innovativeness as a specific social process becomes more important to the regional policy and to structural Poland. The means of pro-in...
Głównym celem monitoringu Regionalnej Strategii Innowacji Województwa Podkarpackiego jest bieżące dostarczanie niezbędnych informacji o trendach innowacyjności regionu oraz postępach wdrażania Strategii, które pozwolą głównym decydentom w województwie poprawić jakość i efektywność wdrażania strategii.
Identyfikacja elementów Regionalnego Systemu In...
Celem badań było przedstawienie skutków kryzysu gospodarczego lat 2007-2009 dla sfery realnej polskiej gospodarki i zestawienie ich ze zmianami, którym podlegała gospodarka UE w tym okresie. Autorzy skupili się na wybranych obszarach sfery realnej polskiej gospodarki. Analizie poddane zostały wybrane wskaźniki obrazujące zmiany na rynku dóbr i usłu...
Innowacyjność ma duże znaczenie dla cyklu koniunktury. Według zwolenników szkoły realnego cyklu koniunkturalnego przyczyną występowania w gospodarce fluktuacji o charakterze cyklicznym są zmiany technologiczne (zmiany produktywności powodowane zmianami technologicznymi). Dodatni wstrząs technologiczny według teoretyków realnego cyklu ko-niunkturaln...
Prognozowanie zmian na rynku pracy jest ważnym problemem polityki
gospodarczej. W literaturze mało miejsca poświęca się jednak przewidywanie punktów zwrotnych wahań koniunkturalnych, jakim podlega rynek pracy. Jeszcze rzadziej dokonuje się bardziej szczegółowej klasyfikacji zmiennych rynku pracy pod względem
wyprzedzeń i opóźnień oraz konstrukcji w...
Wprowadzenie Skala bezrobocia oraz niedostateczny popyt na pracę są ważnymi problemami społeczno-gospodarczymi w Polsce. Również w gospodarkach państw bardziej rozwiniętych, przede wszystkim w Europie Zachodniej, długotrwale utrzymujące się na wysokim poziomie bezrobocie stało się bardzo poważnym problemem. W deba-tach na temat przyczyn tego zjawis...
W latach 2003-2007 obserwowaliśmy wzrostową fazę cyklu koniunkturalnego i związaną z nią poprawę na rynku pracy. Wyrażała się ona spadkiem stopy bezrobocia i wzrostem zatrudnieniu zarówno w kraju, jak i w woj. podkarpackim. Początki tej poprawy nie były jednak optymistyczne. Stopa bezrobocia długo nie obniżała się, pomimo coraz bardziej widocznego...
Na ogół przyjmuje się, że cykle koniunkturalne trwają od 6 do 32 kwartałów. Wykazują więc znaczną nieregularność, jak i zróżnicowaną amplitudę wahań. Co więcej istniejące grupy metod ekstrakcji cykli prowadzą do otrzymania dosyć istotnie różniących się cykli koniunkturalnych. Z punktu widzenia każdej z nich cykl jest nieco inaczej definiowany. Cele...
Th e main purpose of this book is to share our experience in modelling the main
macroeconomic data over the business cycle. We use a set of coincident and leading
indexes created for three main fi elds of economic activity: the overall economy,
infl ation and the labour market. Our intention is also to popularize knowledge
about leading indexes amo...
Artykul jest proba diagnozy aktualnego stanu finansow publicznych w Polsce. Autorzy przyjeli za cel poddanie analizie wplywu kryzysu finansowego na kondycje krajowych finansow publicznych, odnoszac efekty poczynionych ustalen do wskaznikow opisujacych finanse publiczne krajow UE. Artykul stanowi tym samym plaszczyzne porownan aktualnej sytuacji kra...
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Entrepreneurship has multiple determinants. They range from history, through institutions, to local government policies. Although the research on entrepreneurship plays a crucial role in modern economy and finance, the factors responsible for new businesses formation are still under debate. The background for this discussion very often is created by features describing the historical experiences and unique local and regional conditions. Moreover, the role of local government policies in entrepreneurship support is still not sufficiently recognized. Therefore, there is still scope for analysing entrepreneurship form regional perspective, especially in post-communist countries. We look for contributions that investigate how local government policies, history and institutions shaping entrepreneurial activity in the region of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), with special emphasis on Poland, Slovak Republic and Estonia.
We look for contributions that investigate how institutions, institutional heritage, knowledge, innovation activities, and entrepreneurship are interconnected shaping regional development in post-communist countries of Eastern Europe. Particularly interesting questions are:
• How history, institutions, and innovations determine entrepreneurship in CEE?
• What are the differences in tools available for local government in process of entrepreneurship supporting across CEE?
• Which policies for entrepreneurship support provided by local government are the most successful?
• What are the regional cultural traits, values and traditions conducive to innovation and entrepreneurship?
• What is the role of migration (both regional and cross-countries) in the persistence of innovation and entrepreneurship?
• What is the role of regional corruption and more generally quality of government as a crucial factor in entrepreneurship and innovation in CEE?
• What is different about innovation and entrepreneurship performance of regions after institutional shocks, including the end of the Soviet-type regime, and other historical disruptions in general? Is there the effect of the (still longer) historical knowledge base on entrepreneurship?
• What determines the level of persistence of entrepreneurial activities over longer periods of time? How can persistence of entrepreneurship be explained?
The project „International Science Exploration Event 2019” has received funding from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education under the contract 532/P-DUN/2019 by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education allocated to the activities of disseminating science.
In the light of recent developments, slowly shifting world's leading economies towards isolationist policy regimes, the questions related to FDI response to institutional setup should be addressed again with careful consideration. Multinational agreements created institutional proximity significant for the FDI. This in turn accelerated economic growth around the world via positive externalities. We analyse the relation: Institutions-FDI-GDP and perform vast robustness analysis.
