Łukasz Arendt

Lukasz Arendt, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Economic Policy at the University of Lodz. He was a Director of the Educational Research Institute in Warsaw (April 2020 – July 2021) and Director of the Institute of Labour and Social Studies (July 2016 – October 2019). Member of the Committee of Labour and Social Policy of the Polish Academy of Sciences for the term 2020-2023, Regional Labour Market Council in Mazowsze Region, for the term 2019-2022, and the Polish Social Policy Society.

Specialist focus on labour market issues and technical change, with special emphasis on labour market polarization, employment forecasting, development of information society and labour market driven changes in educational systems.

Expert in many international and national research projects commissioned by, among others, DG Education and Culture, European Parliament, CEDEFOP, EUROSTAT, EBRD, Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy.

Selected publications:

• Bednarski M., Arendt, Ł., Grabowski W., Kukulak-Dolata I. (2020), Segmentacja rynku pracy w Polsce, Instytut Pracy i Spraw Socjalnych, Warszawa.

• Arendt, Ł., Grabowski, W., Kukulak-Dolata, I., 2020, County-Level Patterns of Undeclared Work: An Empirical Analysis of a Highly Diversified Region in the European Union, Social Indicators Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-019-02243-4.
• Gajdos A., Arendt, Ł.,, Balcerzak A.P. and Pietrzak M.B. (2020), Future Trends of Labour Market Polarisation in Poland. The Perspective of 2025, Transformations in Business & Economics, 19(2), pp. 114-135.
• Arendt, Ł., Grabowski, W., 2019, Technical Change and Wage Premium Shifts among Task-content Groups in Poland, Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja, Vol. 32 (1), p. 3392–3410.
• Arendt, Ł., Grabowski, W., 2019, The Role of Firm-level factors and Regional Innovation Capabilities for Polish SMEs, Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation, Vol. 15 (3), p. 11–44.
• Arendt, Ł., 2018, Is Polish Labour Market Heading Towards Polarisation, Olsztyn Economic Journal, Vol. 13 (3), p. 309–322.
• Arendt, Ł., Grabowski, W., 2018, Impact of ICT Utilization on Innovations and on Labor Productivity: Micro-level Analysis for Poland, w: Dias, A., Salmelin, B., Pereira, D., Sales Dias, M. (eds.), Modeling Innovation Sustainability and Technologies. Economic and Policy Perspectives, Springer, p. 225–247.
• Arendt, Ł., Grabowski, W., 2017, Innovations, ICT, and ICT-driven Labor Productivity in Poland – a firm level approach, Economics of Transition, Vol. 25 (4), p. 723–758.
• Arendt, Ł. (2016), Paradoks Solowa i determinanty wdrożenia technologii informacyjnych i telekomunikacyjnych, Gospodarka Narodowa, 1(281), s. 29-53.
• Arendt, Ł., Skorupinska, A., 2016, Labour Productivity, ICT and Complementary Factors in the CEE Region, Olsztyn Economic Journal, Vol. 11 (4), p. 385–397.