Cross National Biographies
Comparing precarious employment across countries

Presentations

  • Anna Kiersztyn, Katarzyna Kopycka „Good luck trying to become a professor if you don’t have family money” – prolonged fixed-term employment at labour market entry in Germany, Poland and the UK. Social Boundaries of Work Conference, Wrocław 17-18.10.2024.
  • Stefan Bieńkowski „I’m better out of the system – on my own”: the experience and meaning of non-standard employment in Poland. Social Boundaries of Work Conference, Wrocław 17-18.10.2024.
  • Anna Kiersztyn, Katarzyna Kopycka, Remigiusz Żulicki. Career trajectories with prolonged fixed-term employment at labor market entry in Germany, Poland and the UK – does parental socioeconomic status matter? SLLS Annual International Conference “Inequalities Across Life Courses and Generations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives”, Colchester, UK, 24-26.10.2024. download
  • Anna Kiersztyn, Katarzyna Kopycka The Cross-National Precarity Index: a sequence-based measure of precarious employment and its application to German and U.S. panel data. Poster presented at the 31 Annual Transitions in Youth (TIY) Workshop “Youth Transitions in Vulnerable Populations: New Challenges in Uncertain Times”, Warsaw, 4-6.09.2024
  • Zbigniew Sawiński, Anna Kiersztyn. Ogólny schemat harmonizacji danych z badań panelowych, Ogólnopolska konferencja „Metodologiczne Inspiracje 2023: Badania Ilościowe w Naukach Społecznych — Wyzwania i Problemy”, Jabłonna, 21-22.09.2023. download
  • Katarzyna Kopycka, Anna Kiersztyn, Remigiusz Żulicki. 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? 30th Annual Transitions in Youth (TIY) Workshop “Inequalities in Youth Transitions within and across Countries: New Insights for Policy”, Edinburgh, 6-8.09.2023.
  • Zbigniew Sawiński. General framework for harmonizing data from panel surveys. “General framework for harmonizing data from panel surveys. European Survey Research Association (ESRA) conference “Survey Research in Times of Crisis: Challenges, Opportunities and New Directions.”, Milan, 17-21.07.2023.
  • Zbigniew Sawiński. Controlling recall bias with the Retrospective Distance Scale (RDS) in longitudinal surveys: application to the Polish Panel Survey POLPAN the U.S. NLSY97 panel survey. European Survey Research Association (ESRA) conference “Survey Research in Times of Crisis: Challenges, Opportunities and New Directions.”, Milan, 17-21.07.2023.
  • Katarzyna Kopycka, Anna Kiersztyn. Overcoming the Pitfalls in Comparative Measurement of Precarious Employment: the Longitudinal Cross-National Precarity Index and its Application to German and U.S. Panel Data. European Survey Research Association (ESRA) conference “Survey Research in Times of Crisis: Challenges, Opportunities and New Directions.”, Milan, 17-21.07.2023.
  • CNB Young team. Measuring employment precarity in a cross national framework: Assessment of the Cross National Precarity Index (CNPI) in the German and U.S. context. download presentation; download script
  • Katarzyna Kopycka, Anna Kiersztyn. The Cross-National Precarity Index: a new longitudinal measure of precarious employment and its application to German and U.S. panel data. “The Use of Panel Data in Studying Social Inequality and Political Behaviour”, Oxford, 5 June 2023

  • Katarzyna Kopycka. Analyzing employment precarity in a cross-national perspective. A proposition of a novel measure and examples of its application. Presented during ISA RC28 Spring Meeting “Education and Social Inequality across the Life Course”, Paris, 24-26 May 2023.

  • Olga Li. Multiple Imputation of Income from Past Jobs in Longitudinal Surveys, 2023 International Workshop on Comparative Survey Design and Implementation Program (CSDI), Granada, 19-21.04.2023.
  • Katarzyna Kopycka, Anna Kiersztyn. Measuring employment precarity in a cross-national comparative framework: assessment of the Cross-National Precarity Index (CNPI) in the German and American context. Joint Workshop of CNB-YOUNG, DYNANSE, HEALFAM, and SECCOPA Projects, Bamberg 1-2.12.2022.
  • Zbigniew Sawiński. Comparing employment history data from panel surveys with different interview cycles. Joint Workshop of CNB-YOUNG, DYNANSE, HEALFAM, and SECCOPA Projects, Bamberg 1-2.12.2022.
  • Stefan Bieńkowski. Between precarity, non-standard employment and ideology of work. Insights from qualitative research. Joint Workshop of CNB-YOUNG, DYNANSE, HEALFAM, and SECCOPA Projects, Bamberg 1-2.12.2022.
  • Anna Kiersztyn, Katarzyna Kopycka. Employment trajectories and subjective well-being in Germany, Poland and the U.S. – does the institutional context matter? 2022 SLLS Annual Conference “Growing Up and Growing Older Across Societies: Harnessing the Power of Comparative Research”, Cleveland 23-25.10.2022. download
  • Zbigniew Sawiński, Anna Kiersztyn, Katarzyna Kopycka. Wskaźniki sekwencyjne: nowe narzędzie porównań między krajami. XVIII Congress of the Polish Sociological Association, Warsaw, 14-17.09.2022.
  • Katarzyna Kopycka, Anna Kiersztyn, Viktoriia Sovpenchuk. The effects of precarious work for subjective well-being – does the institutional context matter? A comparison of Germany, Poland and the U.S. XVIII Congress of the Polish Sociological Association, Warsaw, 14-17.09.2022.
  • Katarzyna Kopycka, Michał Sitek, Jędrzej Stasiowski. School-to-work transition of secondary school graduates in Poland. The heterogeneity of short-term effects during the 2020 pandemic. 29th Annual Workshop of the European Research Network on Transitions in Youth (TIY), Naples 8-10.09.2022.

  • Kiersztyn Anna, Kopycka Katarzyna. Measuring employment precarity in a longitudinal and cross-country perspective: a sequence-based approach. Presented during the “14th German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference”, Berlin, 30 June-1 July 2022.

  • Kiersztyn Anna, Kopycka Katarzyna. The effects of precarious work for subjective well-being – does the institutional context matter? A comparison of Germany, Poland and the U.S. Presented during the YOUNG-IN Working Group meeting, Lisbon, 19-20 May 2022.
  • Kiersztyn Anna, Kopycka Katarzyna, Sovpenchuk Viktoriia. Do non-standard labour contracts entail employment precarity? A comparison of Poland, Germany, and the US. Presented during the 6th International Conference “Social Boundaries of Work. Social Inequalities and New Meanings of Work in the Digital Age”, Lublin, 19-20 May 2022.
  • Bieńkowski Stefan. Between safety and self-realization – meaning of work in narrations of young Polish data analysts. Presented during the 6th International Conference “Social Boundaries of Work. Social Inequalities and New Meanings of Work in the Digital Age”, Lublin, 19-20 May 2022.
  • Kopycka Katarzyna, Sitek Michał, Stasiowski Jędrzej. An increase in the taste for education of vocational school graduates amid the Covid pandemic. Is there a social inequality dimension? Presented during the International Conference ISA RC28 Spring Meeting “Social Stratification and Social Policy for a Post-Covid19 World” , London, 21-23 April 2022.
  • Kiersztyn Anna, Kopycka Katarzyna. Measuring Employment Precarity in a Cross-National Framework: Achieving Comparability Using a Sequence-Based Approach. Presented during the “2022 International Workshop on Comparative Survey Design and Implementation Program” (CSDI Workshop), Paris, 4 April 2022.
  • Kiersztyn Anna, Sawiński Zbigniew, Kopycka Katarzyna, Żulicki Remigiusz, Życzyńska-Ciołek Danuta, Bieńkowski Stefan, Sovpenchuk Viktoriia. Challenges for harmonizing panel data from Poland, Germany, UK and USA: The cross-national biographies of youth project. Presented during the Conference “Harmonized longitudinal data on social structure: Polish research in a cross-national perspective”, IFIS PAN, Warsaw, 1-2 December 2021. download
  • Kiersztyn Anna, Kopycka Katarzyna, Bieńkowski Stefan. How to measure precarious employment in the cross-country comparisons? Presented during the Conference “Methodolical Inspirations 2021: Quantitative research in social sciences – Challenges and Problems”, IFIS PAN, Jabłonna, 23 September 2021. download
  • Kiersztyn Anna, Żulicki Remigiusz. The dynamics of employment precarity in a comparative perspective: Labour market trajectories and their determinants in Poland and the UK. Presented during the SLLS International Conference “Identity and Transformation: Studying Lives in Times of Social Change”, online, 20-22 September 2021. download
  • Kopycka Katarzyna. Escaping uncertainty at all costs? Downward mobility upon transition to permanent employment in Germany and Poland. Presented during the SLLS International Conference “Identity and Transformation: Studying Lives in Times of Social Change”, online, 20-22 September 2021. download
  • Kiersztyn Anna, Żulicki Remigiusz. Employment Sequences and Occupational Status Attainment: Patterns of School-to-Work Transitions in Poland and the United Kingdom. Presented during the 28th Annual Workshop of the European Research Network on Transitions in Youth – “School-To-Work Transitions in Times of Uncertainty”, The Institute for Employment Research (IAB), 2-3 September 2021. download
  • Kopycka, Katarzyna. Escaping uncertainty at all cost? Downward mobility upon transition to permanent employment in Germany and Poland. Presented during the 28th Annual Workshop of the European Research Network on Transitions in Youth – “School-To-Work Transitions in Times of Uncertainty”, The Institute for Employment Research (IAB), 2-3 September 2021. download
  • Kopycka, Katarzyna. A broken promise? Changing labor market returns to higher education in a massified and privatized system. Poland between 1992 and 2013. Presented at the poster session of the ISA RC28 Spring Meeting 2021, University of Turku, Finland, 2-4 June 2021.
  • Kiersztyn Anna, Sovpenchuk Viktoriia, Życzyńska-Ciołek Danuta. Varieties of precarious work – the role of institutions. Presented during the 5th International Conference “Social Boundaries of Work 2020: Politics and Ideologies of Work”, Warsaw, 28-29 October 2020.
  • Kopycka, Katarzyna. Transitions to permanent employment. Is there a trade-off between security and occupational position? Presented during the 5th International Conference “Social Boundaries of Work 2020: Politics and Ideologies of Work”, Warsaw, 28-29 October 2020.
  • Bieńkowski, Stefan. Discourse and diversity in outsourced work: a crosscountry comparison. Presented during the 5th International Conference “Social Boundaries of Work 2020: Politics and Ideologies of Work”, Warsaw, 28-29 October 2020.
  • Sawiński, Zbigniew. Credentials or skills? Determinants of labor market success in the US, UK, Germany and Poland. Presented during the 5th International Conference “Social Boundaries of Work 2020: Politics and Ideologies of Work”, Warsaw, 28-29 October 2020.
  • Kiersztyn, Anna. Job insecurity among polish young adults: A life-course perspective. Presented during the ECSR network workshop: Labor market insecurity and health of family members, Bamberg, Germany, 13-15 November 2019.
  • Kiersztyn, Anna. A Dynamic View of Youth Employment Precarity: Labour Market Trajectories and Conditional Effects. Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Conference (SLLS) “Life Courses in Comparable Perspective: Similarities and Differences of Predictors and Outcomes Between Countries, Times and Populations”, Potsdam, Germany, 25-27 September 2019.
  • Kiersztyn, Anna. The dynamics of youth employment precarity: drivers, trajectories, and life-course outcomes. European Sociological Association (ESA) Conference “Europe and Beyond: Boundaries, Barriers and Belonging”, Manchester, UK, 20-23 August 2019.
  • Kiersztyn, Anna. Comparing Life-Course Data from Multiple National Panel Surveys: Challenges of Ex-post Harmonization. 2019 International Workshop on Comparative Survey Design and Implementation Program (CSDI), Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland,18-20 March 2019.