The Subjective Experience of Joblessness in Poland

Tomescu-Dubrow, Irina; Dubrow, Joshua Kjerulf; Kiersztyn, Anna; Andrejuk, Katarzyna; Kołczyńska, Marta; Slomczynski, Kazimierz M.

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“…Such an approach also appeared in the interviews analysed here-people dislike being forced to do particular things either by the state or by an individual person. A similar conclusion may be drawn from analysis of unemployed housewives, who sometimes have a feeling of being externally forced to provide care work for children and other family members (Tomescu-Dubrow et al 2019). It can be assumed that people who feel their actions result from their own choices are more content with their situation.…”

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Care Work and Parenting

Suwada

2021

Parenting and Work in Poland

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This chapter deals with the organisation of care work by Polish parents. Using the data from in-depth interviews and survey data, I demonstrate cultural norms about care that prevails in Polish society. Strong gendered norms and instruments of family policy shape different opportunity structures for men and women. I focus on how parental leaves are used and perceived by Polish parents. I argue that they are still seen primarily as women’s right. I analyse the reasoning lying behind such thinking, but also show the experiences of parents who decided to share the leave. Then I proceed to the organisation of care in the context of so-called care gap. The Polish system of parental leaves is incompatible with the system of institutional care for children. Consequently, in the period between the end of paid leave and the time when a child can go to a kindergarten parents have to develop different strategies how to provide care for their children. I show how these strategies differ in the context of economic inequalities, as well as what consequences care gap has on gender inequalities. Finally, the chapter finishes with the analysis of how care work is perceived by parents.

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Care Work and Parenting

Suwada

2021

Parenting and Work in Poland

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“…Almost everyone is expected to work. Employment is seen as an instrument of social inclusion that allows for active participation in society (Lahusen and Giugni 2016;Tomescu-Dubrow et al 2019). Consequently, engagement in paid work is one of the most common experiences for most people.…”

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Paid Work and Parenting

Suwada

2021

Parenting and Work in Poland

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This chapter is devoted to the issue of paid work. Despite analyses dominating today that perceive paid work as an obstacle to parenting, I argue that paid work is an important obligation arising from parenthood. My analysis indicates that becoming a parent has consequences on how individuals perceive paid work. It becomes more important and there is a bigger focus on the level of earnings. Polish parents feel an enormous economic pressures in connection to having children. Yet the attitudes of men and women to paid work are different. In case of men there is a greater pressure to keep paid work and have a decent salary. Whereas women more often perceive paid work as a source of satisfaction. On the one hand, they also feel pressure to be active in the labour market and to bring money home, but on the other hand they confine more attention to the fact that paid work should be satisfactory. What is more, the chapter discusses these gender differences in the context of economic inequalities, as well as differences between the situation of single and coupled parents.

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“…Poland had a positive growth rate and was marked in green, while in all surrounding countries, the growth rates were negative, which is why those countries were marked in red. In this way, Poland was presented as the Green Island of economic growth against the background of Europe in crisis [ 45 , 46 ]. In the critical year 2009 for the Polish economy, the growth rate decreased to 1.7%, while the EU average at that time was negative and amounted to –4.2% [ 47 ] (p. 91).…”

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Innovativeness of Industrial Processing Enterprises and Conjunctural Movement

Jakimowicz

Rzeczkowski

2020

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Singulation of components determining the innovative activity of enterprises is a complex issue as it depends on both microeconomic and macroeconomic factors. The purpose of this article is to present the results of research on the impact of the mutual interactions between ownership and the size of companies on the achievement of the objectives of innovative activity by Polish industrial processing enterprises in changing cyclical conditions. The importance of innovation barriers was also assessed. Empirical data came from three periods that covered different phases of the business cycle: prosperity 2004–2006, global financial crisis 2008–2010, and recovery 2012–2014. The research used a cybernetic approach based on feedback loops presenting interactions between variables. In addition, two statistical methods were used: the Pearson’s χ2 independence test and correspondence analysis. The following discoveries were made during the research: (1) consideration of the combined impact of ownership and the size of companies on their innovation activities makes it possible to study phenomena that may be overlooked if the impact of these factors is considered separately; (2) public enterprises achieve significantly worse results in terms of innovation than companies from other ownership sectors; (3) the Red Queen effect, which assumes that the best innovative enterprises exert selection pressure on all other companies, applies to industrial processing companies, and in particular public enterprises; (4) the industrial processing section is more sensitive to secular trends than to cyclical fluctuations; (5) confirmation of occurrence of the Polish Green Island effect, which assumes that companies achieve good results in terms of innovation, irrespective of the phases of the business cycle; and (6) statistical evidence is provided that the global financial crisis may be associated with the turn of the Fifth and Sixth Kondratieff waves. Most likely, the role of the communication channel between the world economy and the Polish manufacturing section is fulfilled by foreign ownership, whose percentage of share capital of this section is estimated at 50%.

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The Subjective Experience of Joblessness in Poland

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