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In this chapter our aim is to distinguish those who are employed during the time of the Joblessness study from those who are not and, in defining “labor market success”, to take into account various dimensions of the quality of their jobs, such as: stability, employment contract, occupational status, and wage levels. To do this, we use data on the jobs reported in 2012 together with information on the jobs respondents reported 1 year later, as captured by POLPAN 2013. Many of our respondents managed to find jobs, and – more importantly – keep them for a period of at least 1 year. We cannot assess potential long-term scarring effects of the joblessness experience among our respondents.
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Actually, some of our older respondents participated in all the five waves of POLPAN covering the period 1988–2008.
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More information on the Polish social minimum is provided in the next section.
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We do not have analogous information for the housewife subsample.
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The self-employed in either 2012 or 2013 and those for whom data on employment contracts were unavailable are excluded from this analysis (in general, the self-employed mostly remained self-employed in POLPAN 2013).
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The persistence of fixed-term employment cannot be explained by worker preferences – since among the 61 respondents who were asked in 2012 which type of contractual arrangements they would like to have in their future jobs, 48 (almost 80%) pointed to an open-ended employment contract. Among the remaining respondents, only 4 stated explicitly that they would prefer fixed-term or civil-law contracts (3 pointed to self-employment, and 5 replied that they did not know).
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Tomescu-Dubrow, I., Dubrow, J.K., Kiersztyn, A., Andrejuk, K., Kołczyńska, M., Slomczynski, K.M. (2019). Labor Market Destinations of the Jobless. In: The Subjective Experience of Joblessness in Poland. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13647-5_8
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