Non-pension privileges in Poland – the impact of professions on taking financial decisions
Non-pension privileges in Poland – the impact of professions on taking financial decisions

Author(s): Damian Walczak
Subject(s): Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: privileges; profession; financial awareness; savings;
Summary/Abstract: In Poland there are many occupational privileges. The groups benefiting from these privileges in Poland include miners, teachers, uniformed services and farmers. This study found that these professional groups make different financial decisions from those made by professionally non-privileged persons. In terms of saving money for financing current needs, they save far less frequently than others. The reason may be their better financial situation, stability of employment, or the multiplicity of forms of support received from the employer (mainly the State), which is the result of having a privileged profession. The aim of the article is to present the non-pension privileges existing in Poland as well as indicate that the beneficiaries of these privileges make financial decisions that differ from those made by other professional groups. The article uses data from 11,740 households with 35,279 members examined within the ‘Social Diagnosis 2015’ survey. The logistic regression method was applied (with the use of the IBM SPSS Statistics 24 software) while attempting to reach the research aim of this study.

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