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Presentation of new comparative findings on occupational trajectories at the 30th annual workshop of the European Research Network on Transitions in Youth (TiY) in Edinburgh

The TiY workshop took place on September 6-8 in Edinburgh (Scotland). During this conference, Anna Kiersztyn and Katarzyna Kopycka presented a paper (prepared together with Remigiusz Żulicki) on “The effects of fixed-term employment on occupational status and wage trajectories in Germany, Poland, and the UK: what is the role of parental status?”.

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New book on data scientists by Remigiusz Żulicki

We are happy to announce that Remigiusz Żulicki, member of our research team, has published a book, entitled “Data science: the sexiest occupation in 21st century Poland. Big data, artificial intelligence and PowerPoint”, based on his Ph.D. thesis.

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Participation in a workshop on the use of panel data to study social inequalities and political behaviour at Nuffield College, University of Oxford

On June 5, Katarzyna Kopycka and Anna Kiersztyn were invited to the UK to participate as guest speakers in an interesting workshop on “The Use of Panel Data in Studying Social Inequality and Political Behavior”. During the workshop, Katarzyna Kopycka presented a paper “The Cross-National Precarity Index: a new longitudinal measure of precarious employment and its application to German and U.S. panel data”.

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An important and long-awaited project event in Warsaw: Reconstructing labor market trajectories from national panel surveys: CNB-Young Advisory Board Workshop

The project workshop was held on April 26-28, at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. During the workshop we received valuable comments from leading scholars who support the project team as members of the CNB-Young Advisory Board. The meeting participants included: Elizabeth Cooksey and Dean Lillard (Ohio State University, USA), Gundi Knies (Thünen-Institut for Rural Studies, Germany), Markus Grabka (German Institute for Economic Research, DIW Berlin, Germany) and Kazimierz M. Słomczyński (IFiS PAN, Poland).

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A new article by Katarzyna Kopytska was published

A new article by Katarzyna Kopycka “Escaping uncertainty through downward mobility? Occupational mobility upon transition to permanent employment in Germany and in Poland" was published. Using panel data, the author shows, among other things, that economic uncertainty...

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