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Dr Ewa Flaszyńska
ORCID: 0000-0003-1554-1400

Dr Ewa Flaszyńska, Assistant Professor at the Department of Labour System and Labour Market at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Warsaw, which she is a graduate. For over twenty years he has been successfully combining scientific work with practice as a long-term employee of the government and local government administration, currently the Director of the Labour Market Department at the Ministry of Family and Social Policy. Author of several monographs and over 60 articles in scientific journals and chapters in books on social policy, in particular the labour market. Participant of several dozen scientific conferences in Poland and abroad. A member of the Polish Society for Social Policy and the scientific councils of several journals. Her research interests focus on the issues of long-term unemployment.

 
DOI: 10.33226/0032-6186.2022.7.4
JEL: J26

Passive labour market policies brought the professional deactivation of a large group of older workers — in Poland at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. It contributed to perpetuating the problems and negative tendencies related to the low economic activity of older people and a significant burden on labour offices with services to people out of work, but not interested in taking it up. In this article, we assess the system of preretirement benefits implemented in Poland in the second half of the 1990s in the indicated dimensions. We supplement the analysis of legislative conditions with individual administrative data from the CeSAR data warehouse. This allows to point out the scale of the problem and the possible consequences of professional inactivity.

Keywords: preretirement benefits; inactivity; labour force participation; labour market