Properties of three types of equivalence scales obtained through the matching estimations are compared. The scales are derived by estimating the effect that demographic variables have on the houshold expenditures. The types estimated include: i/ matching on common values of well-being covariates...

Poland stands out in international comparisons as a country where leaving parental home is remarkably delayed. There are many economic and institutional factors which contribute to postponing residential independence among youth, such as housing shortages, the limited share of rental housing or...

In this paper we compare Italy and Poland, two countries where the country-specific obstacles to work and family reconciliation are similarly strong, but which differ in terms of the history of women’s labour force participation and of household living standards. We adopt a life course...

This paper aims to provide an overview of the leading theoretical concepts and the available empirical evidence on family formation and subjective well-being. It identifies the issues which could be investigated in more detail, possibly with refined methodological approaches. An additional...

Koncepcja kapita³u spo³ecznego staje siê coraz bardziej popularna. Bartkowski [2007, s 59-60] wskazuje na bardzo dynamiczny wzrost liczby publikacji dotycz±cych tej tematyki wci±gu ostatnich 20 lat. Pomimo tego, pojêcie kapita³u spo³ecznego nie doczeka³o siê jak dot±djednej definicji....

The study examines distribution and impact of the transfers directed by definition to thelow income population (hereafter: the social assistance). During the period observedboth the volume and the number of recipients increased considerably. Those benefits appeared to be fairly effective as a...

Celem opracowania jest opis zmian liczby i struktury wieku pracuj¹cych w rolnictwie w latach 1993-2008 oraz projekcja zmian tej populacji do roku 2035. Projekcja zosta³a przygotowana dynamiczn¹ metod¹ kohortow¹, stosowan¹ do przewidywania podaSy pracy w opracowaniach OECD oraz Komisji...

During the communist period, Poland experienced an educational revolution: millions of people moved up from primary to lower- und upper-secondary education. At the same time, completed fertility dropped substantially from 2.48 in the 1932 cohort to 2.22 for women born in 1962. This article...

In the recent decade demographers turned their attention to investigating the effects of children on self-rated happiness or life satisfaction. The underlying idea of this strand of research is to find out whether it pays off to individuals to become parents in terms of their subjective...

The share of out-of-wedlock births used to be small in Poland till the beginning of the nineties, but within the last two decades it has increased fourfold. So far, there have been no attempts to identify the mechanisms beyond this change. This paper presents the first systematic evidence on...