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Dr Pawel Bukowski

Dr Pawel Bukowski

Research officer

Expertise: labour economics, labour market inequality, income inequality, economics of education, economic history

Telephone:
02079557773
Email:
p.bukowski@lse.ac.uk
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Biography

Pawel Bukowski is a Research Economist at Centre for Economic Performance and Guest Teacher at the Department of Economics, London School of Economics. He holds a PhD degree in Economics from Central European University.

Dr Pawel Bukowski's current areas of research are:

  • Labour Economics: rent sharing, domestic outsourcing; workplace heterogeneity; unions; globalisation
  • Inequality: the long-run evolution of income inequality; labour share; populism and inequality; inter-ethnic inequalities; social mobility

Publications

Blog
We need more progressive taxation, and a wealth tax, to pay for the COVID-19 rescue packages

The cost of COVID-19 rescue packages will likely be partly financed by increased inflation, which will disproportionally affect less-affluent people and workers, including frontline NHS staff. Pawel Bukowski (LSE) and Wo... Read more...

Pawel Bukowski and Wojciech Paczos

07 July 2020

CentrePiece - The magazine for economic performance
Between communism and capitalism: long-run inequality in Poland

How has inequality in Poland evolved between communism and capitalism to reach one of the highest levels in Europe today? Pawel Bukowski and Filip Novokmet chart a century of data on Polish inequality, 1892-2015, to exam... Read more...

Pawel Bukowski and Filip Novokmet

01 November 2019

CentrePiece - The magazine for economic performance
Workers' falling share of firms' profits

To what extent do UK companies share their profits with employees? Brian Bell, Pawel Bukowski and Stephen Machin find that rent-sharing is on a much smaller scale today than during the 1980s and 1990s – and that the decl... Read more...

Brian Bell, Pawel Bukowski and Stephen Machin

01 July 2019

CEP discussion papers
Between communism and capitalism: long-term inequality in Poland, 1892-2015

How has Polish inequality evolved between communism and capitalism to reach one of the highest levels in Europe today? To address this question, we construct the first series on the long-term distribution of income in Po... Read more...

Pawel Bukowski and Filip Novokmet

14 June 2019

Journal article
How history matters for student performance. lessons from the Partitions of Poland

This paper examines the effect on current student performance of the 19th century Partitions of Poland among Austria, Prussia and Russia. Using a regression discontinuity design, I show that student test scores are 0.6 s... Read more...

Pawel Bukowski

01 March 2019

Journal article
The threat of competition and public school performance: Evidence from Poland

Theoretical literature on whether school competition raises public school productivity is ambiguous (e.g. MacLeod & Urquiola, 2015) and empirical evidence is mixed (e.g. Hsieh and Urquiola, 2006). Moreover, competition m... Read more...

Pawel Bukowski and Martyna Kobus

01 December 2018

CEP discussion papers
Rent sharing and inclusive growth

The long-run evolution of rent sharing is empirically studied. Based upon a comprehensive and harmonized panel of the top 300 publicly quoted British companies over thirty five years, the paper reports evidence of a sign... Read more...

Brian Bell, Pawel Bukowski and Stephen Machin

27 November 2018

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