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. 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
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