The ESR Data Brief article on POLPAN just published
The European Sociological Review published an article on the Polish Panel Survey POLPAN (https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcab017). The survey began in 1987, before the fall of communism, and then continued on a five-year cycle, each time supplementing the sample with...
A poster presentation at the ISA RC28 2021 Spring Meeting
Katarzyna Kopycka presented a poster 'A broken promise? Changing labor market returns to higher education in a massified and privatized system. Poland between 1992 and 2013' at the poster session of the ISA RC28 2021 Spring Meeting, which took place on June 2 - 4,...
CNB-Young session during the 5th International Conference ‘Social Boundaries of Work: Politics and Ideologies of Work’
The 5th International Conference ‘Social Boundaries of Work: Politics and Ideologies of Work’ took place online, on October 28-29, 2020. During the first day of the conference, a separate group session ‘Understanding heterogeneity: the cross-national study of precarious employment’ was organised, chaired by Anna Kiersztyn.
Results of the Ph.D. competition
On October 26, the results of the Ph.D. competition within the CNB-Young project were announced. The recruitment committee has evaluated the candidates’ project-related scientific achievements and research experience, and decided to award the Ph.D. scholarships to Remigiusz Żulicki and Stefan Bieńkowski.
We are looking for two Ph.D. students to join the CNB-Young project team!
The Institute of Philosophy and Sociology (Polish Academy of Sciences) has announced a call for applications for two Ph.D. scholarships in the project „The dynamics of youth employment precarity: drivers, trajectories, and outcomes in a cross-national perspective”. The Ph.D. students will join the CNB-Young project team to conduct cross-national comparative analyses of precarious career sequences among young adults. Please feel free to forward this information to any potentially interested, eligible candidates!
First results of POLPAN 2018 regarding the labour market trajectories of Polish graduates are now published and available online
In her new article, entitled “Niepewność zatrudnienia młodych dorosłych: analiza sekwencji karier zawodowych” (Job insecurity among young adults: an analysis of employment career sequences), Anna Kiersztyn presents a first assessment of precarious careers among young graduates based on data from the most recent wave of the Polish Panel Survey POLPAN.
Zbigniew Sawiński’s article on more effective use of survey research in the policy of counteracting inequalities in education
In August 2020, the article by Zbigniew Sawiński, "From diagnosis to effective educational policy: need for reorientation of research on inequalities in education", was published in the journal "Studia BAS", published by the Bureau of Analyzes of the Polish...
New article by Katarzyna Kopycka on educational expansion in Poland
New article by Katarzyna Kopycka, “Higher education expansion, system transformation and social inequality. Social origin effects on tertiary education attainment in Poland for birth cohorts 1960 to 1988” is now online and available in open access!
CNB-Young meeting in Berlin
On March 2-3, 2020, Anna Kiersztyn, Katarzyna Kopycka and Viktoriia Sovpenchuk from the CNB-Young team took part in a meeting with Advisory Board member Markus Grabka from the SOEP team.
CNB-Young researchers at the final conference of the PREWORK project
The final conference of PREWORK, a research project which studies the life strategies and political attitudes of young precarious workers in Poland and Germany, took place on February 11th, 2020 at the Warsaw School of Economics. Among the invited discussants was dr hab. Anna Kiersztyn, who commented on some of the results of the PREWORK project, concerning the strategies for coping with employment precarity and the ways in which precarious workers locate themselves within the social structure.