Michal Myck

Research Fellow

Centre for Economic Analysis, CenEA

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Michal Myck is Director of the Centre for Economic Analysis, CenEA, in Szczecin (PL). He previously worked at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (1999-2004) and at the DIW-Berlin (2005-2010). Between 2005-2017 he was the Polish Country Team Leader for the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE).

He received his B.A. (First Class) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford (1997) and an M.Phil. degree in Economics at the University of Oxford (1999). In March 2006 he received his Ph.D. degree at the University of Warsaw and in June 2015 completed his habilitation at the Free University Berlin. He is currently affiliated as Privatdozent at the University of Griefswald.

His work has been focused on modelling of labour market behaviour, the relationship between health and employment, the effectiveness of welfare to work programmes, and the structure of personal taxes and benefits. He published in such journals as American Economic Jounal - Economic Policy, Journal of Health Economics, Labour Economics, Social Science and Medicine, and Review of Economics of the Household.

He joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in December 2004 and became a Research Fellow in February 2007.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16934
Labor Market Externalities of Pre-retirement Employment Protection
Paweł Chrostek, Krzysztof Karbownik, Michal Myck
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15643
Temporal Discounting in Later Life
Ellam Kulati, Michal Myck, Giacomo Pasini
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2023, 213, 87-101
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15495
Homeownership and the Perception of Material Security in Old Age
Claudius Garten, Michal Myck, Monika Oczkowska
published online in: Applied Economics, 12 June 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15302
Income Tax Policy in Europe between Two Crises: From the Great Recession to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Michal Myck, Kajetan Trzciński
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14881
Home Alone: Widows' Well-Being and Time
Maja Adena, Daniel S. Hamermesh, Michal Myck, Monika Oczkowska
revised version published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2023, 24, 813 - 838
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14343
Widows' Time, Time Stress and Happiness: Adjusting to Loss
Daniel S. Hamermesh, Michal Myck, Monika Oczkowska
published as 'Widows' Time: Adjusting to Loss' in: Research in Labor Economics, 2023, 50, 369-396
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14244
Gender Preferences in Central and Eastern Europe as Reflected in Partnership and Fertility Outcomes
Michal Myck, Monika Oczkowska, Izabela Wowczko
revised version published as 'Parental gender preferences in Central and Eastern Europe and differential early life disadvantages' in: Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 2024, 32 (1), 237–263
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12734
Reevaluating Distributional Consequences of the Transition to Market Economy in Poland: New Results from Combined Household Survey and Tax Return Data
Michał Brzeziński, Michal Myck, Mateusz Najsztub
revised version published as 'Sharing the gains of transition: evaluating changes in income inequality and redistribution in Poland using combined survey and tax return data' in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 73, 102121
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12222
Implications of the Polish 1999 Administrative Reform for Regional Socio-Economic Development
Michal Myck, Mateusz Najsztub
published in: Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 2020, 28 (4), 559–579
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12220
Policy in the Pipeline: Identifying Regional Public Investment Priorities Using a Natural Experiment
Michal Myck, Mateusz Najsztub
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11342
Shocked by Therapy? Unemployment in the First Years of the Socio-Economic Transition in Poland and its Long-Term Consequences
Michal Myck, Monika Oczkowska
published in: Economics of Transition, 2018, 26 (4), 695-724
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11136
Economic Consequences of Political Persecution
Radim Bohacek, Michal Myck
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9531
Making Work Pay: Increasing Labour Supply of Secondary Earners in Low Income Families with Children
Anna Kurowska, Michal Myck, Katharina Wrohlich
published in: Contemporary Economics, 2017, 11(2), 161-170
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8895
The Effect of Public Pension Wealth on Saving and Expenditure
Marta Lachowska, Michal Myck
revised version published in: American Economic Journal - Economic Policy, 2018, 10 (3), 284-308
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7532
Poverty and Transitions in Health
Maja Adena, Michal Myck
revised version published as 'Poverty and Transitions in Health in Later Life' in: Social Science and Medicine, 2014, 116, 202–210
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7506
Financial Support for Families with Children and its Trade-offs: Balancing Redistribution and Parental Work Incentives
Michal Myck, Anna Kurowska, Michał Kundera
published in: Baltic Journal of Economics, 2013, 13 (2), 61-85
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6933
For Some Mothers More Than Others: How Children Matter for Labour Market Outcomes When Both Fertility and Female Employment Are Low
Krzysztof Karbownik, Michal Myck
revised version published in: Economics of Transition, 2016, 24(4), 705-725
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6846
Family and Labor Market Choices: Requirements to Guide Effective Evidence-Based Policy
Anna Kurowska, Michal Myck, Katharina Wrohlich
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6232
Mommies' Girls Get Dresses, Daddies' Boys Get Toys: Gender Preferences in Poland and their Implications
Krzysztof Karbownik, Michal Myck
revised published as 'Who gets to look nice and who gets to play? Effects of child gender on household expenditures' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 15(3), 925-944
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6130
Long Shadows of History: Persecution in Central Europe and Its Labor Market Consequences
Michal Myck, Radim Bohacek
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5169
Poorer Health – Shorter Hours? Health and Flexibility of Hours of Work
Johannes Geyer, Michal Myck
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4332
Count Your Hours: Returns to Education in Poland
Michal Myck, Anna Nicińska, Leszek Morawski
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4154
Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-Employment
Peter Haan, Michal Myck
revised version published as 'Dynamics of Health and Labour Market Risks' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2009, 28 (6), 1116-1125
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3751
Dynamics of Earnings and Hourly Wages in Germany
Michal Myck, Richard Ochmann, Salmai Qari
revised version published as 'Dynamics in Transitory and Permanent Variation of Wages in Germany' in: Economics Letters, 2011, 113 (2), 143 - 146
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3746
'Klin'-ing Up: Effects of Polish Tax Reforms on Those In and on Those Out
Leszek Morawski, Michal Myck
revised and corrected version published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (3), 556-566
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3611
Multi-Family Households in a Labour Supply Model: A Calibration Method with Application to Poland
Peter Haan, Michal Myck
published in: Applied Economics, 2012, 22, 2907 - 2919
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3157
Safety Net Still in Transition: Labour Market Incentive Effects of Extending Social Support in Poland
Peter Haan, Michal Myck
revised version published as 'Safety net still in transition: labour market incentive effects of social support in Poland and Germany' in: Bank i Kredyt, 2010, 41 (3), 5-34
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2988
As SIMPL As That: Introducing a Tax-Benefit Microsimulation Model for Poland
Olivier Bargain, Leszek Morawski, Michal Myck, Mieczyslaw Socha
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2983
Wages and Ageing: Is There Evidence for the "Inverse-U" Profile?
Michal Myck
revised version published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72 (3), 282-306
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2456
Employment Fluctuations and Dynamics of the Aggregate Average Wage in Poland 1996-2003
Michal Myck, Leszek Morawski, Jerzy Mycielski
published in: Economics of Transition, 2007, 15(4), 759-799
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