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Piotr Lewandowski
Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow
Piotr Lewandowski is a labour economist, President of the Board at Institute for Structural Research, Warsaw, and a Research Fellow at IZA, Bonn, Germany.
In the past he has collaborated with Warsaw School of Economics, and the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy in Poland. His research interests include the impact of technology on jobs, wage polarization, labour market segmentation, minimum wage, and labour market effects of climate and energy policies.
Piotr Lewandowski is part of the UNU-WIDER project Inequalities – measurement, implications, and influencing change project. He is mainly involved in the work on the sub-component Earnings Inequality and Structural Change, which addresses policy challenges in achieving Goal 8 on decent work and economic growth, Goal 9 on industry, innovation and infrastructure, and Goal 10 on reduced inequalities, in the Sustainable Developments Goals Agenda.
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Book Chapter
Conclusions and policy implicationsFrom the book: Tasks, skills, and institutions
Inequality Policy Developing countriesBook Chapter
Cross-country patterns in structural transformation and inequality in developing countriesFrom the book: Tasks, skills, and institutions
Earnings inequality Education premium PolarizationBook Chapter
Global divergence in the de-routinization of jobsFrom the book: Tasks, skills, and institutions
De-routinization Global division of labour Task content of jobsBook Chapter
Data and methodologyFrom the book: Tasks, skills, and institutions
Data Earnings MethodologyBook Chapter
Introduction: the changing nature of work and inequalityFrom the book: Tasks, skills, and institutions
Earnings inequality Skills TasksBook
Tasks, skills, and institutions: The changing nature of work and inequalityBOOK IN PRODUCTION – ESTIMATED FOR PUBLICATION IN SUMMER 2023 Developed countries have experienced a polarization in earnings and in employment, namely stronger growth in the earnings and jobs for the most and least skilled workers at the expen...
Inequality Earnings Labour marketBlog
The global distribution of routine and non-routine work – and why we should we care about itThe nature of work is changing due to technological progress, globalization, and the rapidly expanding supply of college-educated workers...
Earnings inequality Global inequality Labour dynamicsWorking Paper
The global distribution of routine and non-routine workStudies of the effects of technology and globalization on employment and inequality commonly assume that occupations are identical around the world in the job tasks they require...
De-routinization Economic development Global division of labourBlog
Who gets to work from home?: A suddenly relevant indicator of privilege and inequality in labour market outcomes
The COVID-19 pandemic constitutes an unprecedented shock for labour markets around the world. Non-pharmaceutical interventions, such as social distancing, and limits on economic activity and mobility of people, are a necessary response...
Project
The changing nature of work and inequality
Theme: Transforming societies
Inequality Earnings inequality Structural change