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In contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, the debate on class politics takes on a different form to that in the West - it concerns whether class divisions in creaseas the post-communist societies under go transition to the market system. Using Polish survey data, containing information on respondents voting beha ior in elections of 1991, 1994, 1997, and 2001, the Autors presents evidence on significance of social class on voting behavior. Results of log-linear analysis show that class membership does in deed exert a significant impact on voting behavior. Although it changed across the time, in 2001 it appeared no less significant than in 1991. Also the patterns of this association remained unchanged. On the whole our evidence suggests that in Poland a new dimension of social stratification known as in sociological literature 'class politics' - has emerged. At the same time, claims of the class basis of voting in Poland can not be exaggerated. The evidence presented here clearly indicates that the class-vote link in Poland is much lo wer compared with most of Western societies. Data from 17 countries found in allows to compare relative strength of this association European Social Survey 2002.
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Earlier findings on educational homogamy in Poland demonstrated lack of significant changes in marriage selection. Specifically, the analyses showed stability in degree of association between educational level of spouses, educational homogamy, boundaries in marriage selection, and asymmetry in marriage patterns between women and men. Using data of wedding registries this article reports on newly married couples in 1977–2007 - covering the longest span of time in the studies concerning Poland. Results showing some directional changes might suggest that marital patterns of the bride and bridegroom differ from those disclosed for all couples. Actually, according to our analyses, the similarity of spouses' educational attainment declined. Bearing in mind that this tendency to growing openness occurred in time of the systemic transformation in Poland we conclude that it could be caused by phenomena related to the systemic change, such as increasing mobility and access to universities.
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In previous studies on market transition in post-communist societies the link was missing between macro-level regional differences and individuals' incomes. This analysis, based on the Polish national sample from 2006, is aimed at casting light on regional variation in the influence of education on income levels. Building a conceptual framework based on the theory of human capital rhe authors investigate to what extent pay-offs for human capital differ across administrative districts in Poland. By incorporating contextual characteristics, they examine how micro- and macro-level factors shape labour market outcomes. Their finding provides support for the hypothesis that there is much regional variation in the returns to education, which suggests that there are better and worse places for the development of meritocratic distribution of incomes. It appears that education pays more in more economically developed regions, marked with higher rate of occupational activity. It leads to the conclusion that, on the one hand, such places create higher motivation to reward individuals according to human capital in more efficiently operating markets. On the other hand, in more developed regions there is a higher competition for wages and jobs, employers have higher demands - which encourage and enforce the rules of rewarding individuals by merits.
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