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What Have EU Countries Done to Support Low-Wage Workers in an Era of Downward Wage Pressures?
IZA DP No. 9390 Stemming the Tide: What Have EU Countries Done to Support Low-Wage Workers in an Era of Downward Wage Pressures? Sarah Marchal Ive Marx September 2015 DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit Institute for the Study of Labor Stemming the Tide: What Have EU Countries Done to Support Low-Wage Workers in an Era of Downward Wage Pressures? Sarah Marchal Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy, University of Antwerp Ive Marx Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy, University of Antwerp and IZA Discussion Paper No. 9390 September 2015 IZA P.O. Box 7240 53072 Bonn Germany Phone: +49-228-3894-0 Fax: +49-228-3894-180 E-mail: [email protected] Any opinions expressed here are those of the author(s) and not those of IZA. Research published in this series may include views on policy, but the institute itself takes no institutional policy positions. The IZA research network is committed to the IZA Guiding Principles of Research Integrity. The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. -
Outreach in Poland Outreach Is Organised Locally (Organisers from One Institute Or from One Town)
OutreachOutreach inin PolandPoland 2004-2012 Jacek Szabelski National Centre for Nuclear Research Cosmic Ray Physics Division èódź IPPOG-CERN-Dec 1, 2012 (RECFA Meeting, Kraków, May 11, 2012) Particle physics outreach Goals: Targets: ● pleasure and satisfaction ● high school students ● publicity ● high school student©s teachers ● search for young ● high school student©s parents physicists/scientists ● graduate students ● gently presenting ● physicists of another fields of physics importance/financing HEP ● politicians ● general public ● journalists (as ªbosonsº) In many cases ● ªhands onº exercises ● direct contact with scientists are the most important TheatreTheatre (famous(famous actors)actors) about physics several performances about 1000 spectators (non physicists) TheatreTheatre (famous(famous actors)actors) about physics several performances about 1000 spectators (non physicists) ªResearchers Nightsº LHC in art Art gallery ªaTAKº exibition: ªJulia Curyøo ± H0 º LHC, Apokalipsa LHC, Katedra http://www.atak.art.pl http://www.galeria-atak.pl/en/wystawy/archiwum/19-julia-curylo-h-particle.html lectures, open laboratory days e.g. Kraków, IFJ, September 29, 2008 800 visitors direct contact with researchers Exhibition: LHC ± how does it work ? in 2008/2010 in Poland http://lhc.edu.pl/ Travelling exhibition around Poland Main organisers: Jan Grabski, Jan Pluta ± Warsaw University of Technology Marek Pawøowski ± IPJ (NCBJ) About one week events 12 places, 13 events good media coverage About 50000 visitors exhibition road map finances: 80kEuro -
Polka Brochure
a project by Eurordis and its partners Patients‘ Consensus on Preferred Policy Scenarii for Rare Diseases Partners A project financed by Patients ‘ Consensus on Preferred Policy Scenarii 2 for Rare Diseases Polka in a few words the 5th European Conference on Rare Diseases, ECRD 2010 in Poland, which is the third pillar of the Polka project. Overall objectives Strategies and plans for rare diseases are currently Polka is a project conducted by Eurordis and its partners. being developed by the European Union and many of It is co-financed by the EU Public Health Programme its Member States. Eurordis and its partners believe that 2008-2013, DG Sanco. It is a 3-year project, September patient input into this process is of the utmost importance. 2008 to September 2011. Polka, a new project launched in September 2008, has been set up to respond to this objective. The project will The central idea of this project is to foster the opinion facilitate the consultation of the European rare disease of patient representatives on future European policies community at large, with the aim of building consensus on for rare diseases, or to collect their views on existing preferred public health policy scenarios for rare diseases: ones. For the former, entertaining sessions to familiarise genetic testing, cost of treatments, xenotransplantation, patient representatives with complex scientific issues are telemedicine… developed, the “PlayDecide sessions”. Once opinions Five to seven topics will be selected and two different have emerged, a more-in-depth exercise will help methods will be used to address them: patients’ patient representatives to define their preferred policy deliberative sessions using an entertaining approach (Delphi-like method). -
Prevalence Rates of Mucopolysaccharidoses in Poland
J Appl Genetics (2015) 56:205–210 DOI 10.1007/s13353-014-0262-5 HUMAN GENETICS • ORIGINAL PAPER Prevalence rates of mucopolysaccharidoses in Poland Agnieszka Jurecka & Agnieszka Ługowska & Adam Golda & Barbara Czartoryska & Anna Tylki-Szymańska Received: 19 May 2014 /Revised: 18 November 2014 /Accepted: 24 November 2014 /Published online: 4 December 2014 # The Author(s) 2014. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Abstract The aim of this study was to determine the preva- VI, the incidence values for Poland were the lowest of all the lence rates of mucopolysaccharidoses in Poland and to com- studies previously published so far. pare them with other European countries. A retrospective epidemiological survey covering the period between 1970 Keywords Mucopolysaccharidoses . Prevalence and 2010 was implemented. Multiple ascertainment sources were used to identify affected patients. The overall prevalence of mucopolysaccharidoses in the Polish population was 1.81 Introduction per 100,000. Five different mucopolysaccharidoses were di- agnosed in a total of 392 individuals. MPS III was the most The mucopolysaccharidoses represent the largest group of frequent mucopolysaccharidosis, with a birth prevalence of lysosomal storage disorders (LSDs) and are characterized by 0.86 per 100,000 live births. A prevalence of approximately progressive multiorgan involvement, leading to severe disabil- 0.22 cases per 100,000 births was obtained for MPS I. For ity and premature death. Each type results from a deficiency of MPS II, the prevalence was estimated as 0.45 cases per 100,000 a specific lysosomal enzyme that participates in the stepwise births; for MPS IVA and B as 0.14 cases in 100,000 births; and degradation of glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) (Neufeld and that for MPS VI as 0.03 cases per 100,000 births. -
Pancreatic Cancer: Multicenter Prospective Data Collection and Analysis by the Hungarian Pancreatic Study Group
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by SZTE Publicatio Repozitórium - SZTE - Repository of Publications original paper Available from: http://www.jgld.ro/wp/archive/y2016/n2/a15 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15403/jgld.2014.1121.252.pcr Pancreatic Cancer: Multicenter Prospective Data Collection and Analysis by the Hungarian Pancreatic Study Group Gábor Lakatos1, Anita Balázs2, Balázs Kui2, Szilárd Gódi3, Ákos Szücs4, Andrea Szentesi2, Zsolt Szentkereszty5, Richárd Szmola6, Dezső Kelemen7, Róbert Papp7, Áron Vincze3, József Czimmer3, Gabriella Pár3, Judit Bajor3, Imre Szabó3, Ferenc Izbéki8, Adrienn Halász8, László Leindler9, Gyula Farkas Jr.9, Tamás Takács2, László Czakó2, Zoltán Szepes2, Péter Hegyi2,10, 11*, Zsuzsanna Kahán12,* 1) Dept. Oncology, St. Istvan Abstract and St. Laszlo Hospital and Out- Patient Department, Budapest; Background & Aims: Pancreatic cancer is a devastating disease with poor prognosis. There is very limited 2) 1st Dept. Medicine, University information available regarding the epidemiology and treatment strategies of pancreatic cancer in Central of Szeged; 3) 1st Dept. Medicine, Europe. The purpose of the study was to prospectively collect and analyze data of pancreatic cancer in the University of Pécs; 4) 1st Dept. Hungarian population. Surgery, Semmelweis University, Methods: The Hungarian Pancreatic Study Group (HPSG) organized prospective, uniform data collection. Budapest; 5) Institute of Surgery, Altogether 354 patients were enrolled from 14 Hungarian centers. Clinical Center, University of Results: Chronic pancreatitis was present in 3.7% of the cases, while 33.7% of the patients had diabetes. Debrecen; 6) Dept. Interventional Family history for pancreatic cancer was positive in 4.8%. -
Financial System Development in Poland 2010
Financial System Development in Poland 2010 Warsaw, 2012 Editors: Paweł Sobolewski Dobiesław Tymoczko Authors: Katarzyna Bień Jolanta Fijałkowska Marzena Imielska Ewelina Jaskólska Piotr Kasprzak Paweł Kłosiewicz Michał Konopczak Sylwester Kozak Dariusz Lewandowski Krzysztof Maliszewski Rafał Nowak Dorota Okseniuk Aleksandra Paterek Aleksandra Pilecka Rafał Sieradzki Karol Siskind Paweł Sobolewski Andrzej Sowiński Mikołaj Stępniewski Michał Wiernicki Andrzej Wojciechowski Design, cover photo: Oliwka s.c. DTP: Print Office NBP Published by: National Bank of Poland Education and Publishing Department 00-919 Warsaw, Świętokrzyska 11/21, Poland Phone 48 22 653 23 35 Fax 48 22 653 13 21 www.nbp.pl © Copyright by National Bank of Poland, 2012 Introduction Table of contents Introduction . 5 1 . Financial system in Poland . 6 1.1. Evolution of the size and structure of the financial system in Poland . .6 1.2. Households and enterprises on the financial market in Poland .........................14 1.2.1. Financial assets of households ...............................................14 1.2.2. External sources of financing of Polish enterprises ................................18 2 . Regulations of the financial system . 21 2.1. Changes in financial system regulations in Poland ..................................21 2.1.1. Regulations affecting the entire financial services sector ...........................23 2.1.2. Regulations regarding the banking services sector ................................26 2.1.3. Regulations regarding non-bank financial institutions .............................32 2.1.4. Regulations regarding the capital market ......................................33 2.2. Measures of the European Union regarding the regulation of the financial services sector ....34 2.2.1. Regulations affecting the entire financial services sector ...........................34 2.2.2. Regulations regarding the banking services sector ................................39 2.2.3. -
Agrarian-Economic Structure of Agricultural Holdings in Poland and East Germany: Selected Elements of Comparative Analysis
QUAESTIONES GEOGRAPHICAE 33(2) • 2014 AGRARIAN-ECONOMIC STRUCTURE OF AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS IN POLAND AND EAST GERMANY: SELECTED ELEMENTS OF COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS 1 2 1 ALEKSANDRA JEZIERSKA-THÖLE , JÖRG JANZEN , ROMAN RUDNICKI 1 Department of Spatial Management and Tourism, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland 2 Institute of Geographical Sciences, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany Manuscript received: July 31, 2013 Revised version: March 6, 2014 JEZIERSKA-THÖLE A., JANZEN J., RUDNICKI R., 2014. Agrarian-economic structure of agricultural holdings in Poland and East Germany: Selected elements of comparative analysis. Quaestiones Geographicae 33(2), Bogucki Wydawnictwo Nau- kowe, Poznań, pp. 87–101, 4 tables, 8 figs. DOI 10.2478/quageo-2014-0018, ISSN 0137-477X. ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to determine differences in the development of farms in Poland against the agri- culture of East Germany, and to show areas with similar conditions for development. The time range of the research covered the years 2002–2010, i.e. the stage of preparation of Polish agriculture for accession to the European Union, the implementation of pre-accession aid programmes, and the establishment and implementation of the tools of the Com- mon Agricultural Policy. To assess the level of agricultural development, natural, productive and social characteristics were adopted. Spatial variations in the analysed features were based on the variation coefficient (Vz), and the level of agricultural development, on Perkal’s index (Wi). In the analysed period the range of variation and the degree of the spatial dispersion of sub-indices changed, indicating a deepening of the polarisation processes in agriculture. -
Poland's Natural Gas Revolution: Energy, Security and Geopolitics
Poland’s Natural Gas Revolution: Energy, Security & Geopolitics Andrzej J. Kozłowski Executive Director – Strategy & Project Portfolio Management PKN ORLEN S.A. Houston, October 19, 2011 Agenda 1 PKN ORLEN – leading energy company in Central Europe 2 Shale gas in Poland – great opportunity not to be missed 2 PKN ORLEN is one of Central Europe’s largest refiners and operators of filling stations Comparison of PKN ORLEN and regional peers, 2010 Crude throughput, m tonnes Location of PKN ORLEN assets in Europe 28.3 21.8 21.0 Refining Number of stations, ths. 2.7 2.3 1.5 Fuel retail Petchem capacity, PP, ths. tonnes 675 535 Petro- chemicals 80 Source: ICIS 3 PKN ORLEN is the largest company in Central Europe Largest companies in Central Europe Company Country Industry sector Revenues, 2010 USD bn Poland Oil & Gas 27.7 Hungary Oil & Gas 20.6 Czech Automotive Rep. 11.5 Ukraine Oil & Gas 11.5 Czech Power & Utilities Rep. 10.4 Ukraine Power & Utilities 9.4 Ukraine Power & Utilities 7.1 Source: Deloitte TOP500 2011 4 Multi-utility is a foundation for further PKN ORLEN’s value growth PKN ORLEN’s positioning Upstream Power Refining Wholesale Petchem oil & gas Generation & Marketing & Logistics . One of the key . Power segment as . World-class refinery . Leading supplier . Decisive holders of Poland’s a stable assets, in Poland and of petro- wholesale market shale gas contributor to abroad chemicals to the leader in Poland, exploration Group’s revenues Polish market as Lithuania and licenses . Retail - regional well as a major player in . Number of leader in terms of significant neighboring . -
MARITIME Security &Defence M
June MARITIME 2021 a7.50 Security D 14974 E &Defence MSD From the Sea and Beyond ISSN 1617-7983 • Key Developments in... • Amphibious Warfare www.maritime-security-defence.com • • Asia‘s Power Balance MITTLER • European Submarines June 2021 • Port Security REPORT NAVAL GROUP DESIGNS, BUILDS AND MAINTAINS SUBMARINES AND SURFACE SHIPS ALL AROUND THE WORLD. Leveraging this unique expertise and our proven track-record in international cooperation, we are ready to build and foster partnerships with navies, industry and knowledge partners. Sovereignty, Innovation, Operational excellence : our common future will be made of challenges, passion & engagement. POWER AT SEA WWW.NAVAL-GROUP.COM - Design : Seenk Naval Group - Crédit photo : ©Naval Group, ©Marine Nationale, © Ewan Lebourdais NAVAL_GROUP_AP_2020_dual-GB_210x297.indd 1 28/05/2021 11:49 Editorial Hard Choices in the New Cold War Era The last decade has seen many of the foundations on which post-Cold War navies were constructed start to become eroded. The victory of the United States and its Western Allies in the unfought war with the Soviet Union heralded a new era in which navies could forsake many of the demands of Photo: author preparing for high intensity warfare. Helping to ensure the security of the maritime shipping networks that continue to dominate global trade and the vast resources of emerging EEZs from asymmetric challenges arguably became many navies’ primary raison d’être. Fleets became focused on collabora- tive global stabilisation far from home and structured their assets accordingly. Perhaps the most extreme example of this trend has been the German Navy’s F125 BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG class frig- ates – hugely sophisticated and expensive ships designed to prevail only in lower threat environments. -
Budapest Vs. the Countryside
american chamber of commerce in hungary VOICEVol III. Issue 11, march 2013 BuDa pest vS. thE cOuNtRyside And thE demogRaphIc time bomb MORE INSIDE: Education that serves society Innovation – you can’t do it alone 3 contents 4 introduction 15-19 COVEr STORY 30 AmchAm nEwS Dear Members and Friends… capital vs. countryside New board, new president 5 PEoPLE 31 AmchAm nEwS the glass half full 20-21 COVEr STORY hungarian tax system: 6 PEoPLE the demographic time bomb Swedish taxes with traveling at the speed Ethiopian wages of google 22-23 Lifestyle AmchAm nEwS 7 PEople andrás török’s Budapest 32 adding value, boosting Innovation – you can’t confidence do it alone 24-25 focuS 8 AnALYSiS Education that serves society 33 chAmbEr cornEr Will the largest grow larger? providing a reasoned voice 26 AmchAm nEwS 91-11 AnALYSiS Business news roundup hungary ‘not an island’ 36-37 AmchAm nEwS New members on board 12-13 AnALisys AMCHAm NewS hungary moves deeper 27 38-41 AmchAm nEwS into recession Shifting toward growth photo coverage 14 AnALYSiS 28-29 AmchAm NewS BSE saw a drastic drop in 42 AmchAm nEwS turnover in 2012 a cooperative approach to tax cEO’s note Voice is published on behalf of the American Chamber of Commerce by Absolut Media Zrt., Madách Trade Center, 1075 Budapest, Madách Imre út 13-14., Building A, 8th floor Editor-in-chief: ROBIN MARSHALL ([email protected]) • Contributors: GABRIELLA LOVAS, ROBIN MARSHALL, ANDRÁS TÖRÖK Photography: András HAJnal, LÁZár TodoroFF • Design: ABSOLUT DESIGN STÚDIÓ ([email protected]) • Art director: Tamás TárCZY • CEO: TAMÁS BOTKA Advertising: ABSOLUT MEDIA Zrt. -
Małopolska Region Demographic Transition: Working for the Future 2 | Disclaimer
MAŁOPOLSKA REGION DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION: WORKING FOR THE FUTURE 2 | DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER This work is published on the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the OECD. The opinions expressed and arguments employed herein do not necessarily reflect the official views of the Organisation or of the governments of its member countries. This document and any map included herein are without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty over any territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries and to the name of any territory, city or area. Małopolska Region Demographic Transition: Working for the Future © OECD 2013 ABOUT THE OECD | 3 ABOUT THE OECD The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is a unique forum where the governments of 34 market democracies work together to address the economic, social and governance challenges of globalisation as well as to exploit its opportunities. The OECD’s way of working consists of a highly effective process that begins with data collection and analysis and moves on to collective discussion of policy, then decision making and implementation. Mutual examination by governments, multi-lateral surveillance and peer pressure to conform or reform are at the heart of the OECD’s effectiveness. Much of the material collected and analysed at the OECD is published on paper or online: from press releases and regular compilations of data and projections to one-off publications or monographs on particular issues; from economic surveys of each member country to regular reviews of education systems, science and technology policies or environmental performance. For more information on the OECD, please visit www.oecd.org/about. -
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Südosteuropa 57 (2009), H . 2/3, S . 284-304 DEMOCRACY AND MARKET ECONOMY WIM VAN MEURS Romania: New Membership and Old Habits? Abstract. Political developments in Romania as well as the resulting deficits in transition management since EU accession raise a number of fundamental but difficult questions . Should Romania’s “old habits” be thought of as a Huntingtonian blend of the country’s pre-communist political institutions and political culture mixed with “Ceauşescuism”, that is, Romania’s exceptional type of state socialism, sometimes dubbed “sultanism”? Or should these “old habits” actually be explained in terms of an event as recent as Romania’s EU accession proc- ess – and thus be seen as a sort of “post-accession syndrome”? Or should at least some part of the supposed Romanian or Balkan exceptionalism, to which Romania’s “old habits” are often attributed, be viewed in comparison with recent trends in the political culture – that is, the democratic attitudes of the citizens and the informal rules of the political process – in West European polities? Questioning path-dependencies cannot alleviate the problems caused by the obvious flaws in Romania’s political process, but thinking through negative pan-European trends does imply rethinking stereotypes about the Balkans . Wim van Meurs is an Associate Professor at the History Department of Radboud University, Nijmegen . History and Characteristics of Transformation Historically, Romania has been characterized by a modernization gap be- tween its southern and eastern regions, which remained under Ottoman rule until 1878, and its more modern, urbanized western and northwestern regions, which were under Habsburg rule until 1918 .