Robert Pater Ph.D. is an associate professor of economics at the University of Information Technology and Management (UITM) in Rzeszów, Poland. He holds the position of the Head of the Department of Economics and Finance at UITM. A specialist in the field of macroeconomics and applied econometrics with particular application to the job vacancy market and skill demand. The subject of his associate professorship achievement was the demand for labour and skills. His doctoral dissertation concerned the impact of the business cycles on the labour market. The degrees were awarded by the College of Economic Analysis at the Warsaw School of Economics.
Author of 70 scientific publications on these topics and several hundred other publications, including research and policy reports, and popular science articles, published in national economic magazines and the main online media in the country. His scientific achievements include articles published in: Economic Modelling, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, Journal of Education and Work, Quality & Quantity, Survey Research Methods, Journal of Economic Asymmetries, and publications in the best Polish economic journals.
Senior Expert in the Educational Research Institute in Warsaw within the National Qualifications Framework. Since 2020, he has been supervising a research team whose goal is to provide information for the preparation by the Ministry of National Education in Poland of the annual Forecast of the demand for employees in vocational education occupations in the national and regional labour markets.
Co-investigator in over 40 research projects, including several international ones related to the labour market. Since 2004, he has been conducting regular research on job offers in Poland, entitled the Job Offers Barometer for Poland, which supplements official statistics with information on vacancies and skill demand. He cooperates with the Bureau for Investments and Economic Cycles in Warsaw in forecasting labour market in Poland with a system of leading indices. In 2017-2019, he supervised a project entitled: A method of continuous monitoring of educational mismatches in the Polish labour market at a detailed level, financed within the DIALOG program by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Since 2025 he supervises a research grant entitled OJALAB: Online job advertisements to study skill demand and job search patterns, financed from the Polish National Science Centre.
From the beginning of his professional career, he has been strongly focused on the analysis and inference from statistical data. He has extensive experience in the empirical application of research results. He cooperated with, among others: Eurostat, World Bank, Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and many national institutions, including the Ministry of National Education, Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy, and regional labour offices in applying research results to shape economic and educational policy. In popularizing research, he regularly cooperated with Polish newspapers Gazeta Wyborcza, Rzeczpospolita, and Polish Market magazine.
Topics of seminars and doctoral dissertations
The topics of the seminars and dissertations focus on the broadly understood labour market, including the labour market and technological transformation (AI, IT), the effects of the gig economy and platform economy, new and declining occupations, demand for skills, the market of vacancies, the effects of external shocks (COVID-19, war in Ukraine) on the labour market. The studies will be based on various data sources – traditional sample surveys, and new data sources – administrative registries and big data from the Internet. The most desirable are studies on the demand for occupations, qualifications and skills based on data collected at the Department of Economics and Finance.
Research areas:
- The search (and matching) process between jobseekers and employers
- Vacancy market
- Job offers over the business cycle
- Labour demand – changes over time and occupational structure
- Skill demand
- Gig economy
- Platform economy
- Employers’ requirements and jobseekers’ competences
- Education and the labour market
- Business cycle and the labour market
- Gender language in job offers
- Green and digital skills. Twin transition and the labour market
- Labour market policies and their effectiveness
- Job polarisation – verification of RBTC and SBTC theories
- Modelling and forecasting the situation in the labour market
- Qualification Strategy
- Skills Strategy
- AI and the labour market
- New and declining occupations
- COVID-19 and the demand for skills
- Migrations of Ukrainians in the time of war
- The evolution of the demand for a chosen occupation
ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7619-9843
Chosen scientific publications:
Beręsewicz, M., Wydmuch, M., Cherniaiev, H., Pater, R. (2025). Multilingual hierarchical classification of job advertisements for job vacancy statistics. Journal of Official Statistics, 1–39. https://doi.org/10.1177/0282423X251395400
Pater, R., Cherniaiev, H., Arendt, Ł. (2024). Demand for skills in AI-related occupations – Polish and European perspective. [In:] Re-thinking Europe’s Skill Needs: Reflections following the European Year of Skills, Liga Baltina and Terence Hogarth (Editors). 127-158.
Beręsewicz M., Cherniaiev H., Mantaj A., Pater R. (2024). Text analysis of job offers for mismatch of educational characteristics to labour market demands. Quality & Quantity 58. July, 1799-1825. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-023-01707-7.
Arendt, Ł., Gałecka-Burdziak, E., Pater, R. (2023), Has COVID-19 Enhanced Labour Polarisation in Poland? Changes in Unmet Labour Demand Based on Online Job Offers, In: Digital Labour Markets in Central and Eastern European Countries. COVID-19 and the Future of Work, ed. Beata Woźniak-Jęchorek and Kamilla Marchewka-Bartkowiak, Routledge, London and New York, 49-75. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003326779-5.
Arendt, Ł, Gałecka-Burdziak, E., Nuñez, F., Pater, R., Usabiaga, C. (2023). Skills Requirements Across Task-Content Groups in Poland – What On-Line Job Offers Tell Us? Technological Forecasting & Social Change 187, February, 122245. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2022.122245.
Pater, R., Cherniaiev, H., Kozak, M. (2022). A dream job? Skill demand and skill mismatch in ICT. Journal of Education and Work. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13639080.2022.2128187.
Usabiaga, C., Núñez, F., Arendt Ł., Gałecka-Burdziak E., Pater R., (2022), Skill requirements and labour polarisation: An association analysis based on Polish online job offers. Economic Modelling 115, 105963. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2022.105963.
Beręsewicz, M, Cherniaiev, H., Pater, R. (2021). Estimating the number of entities with vacancies using administrative and online data. arXiv:2106.03263 (pre-print).
Beręsewicz M., Pater R. (2021). Inferring job vacancies from online job advertisements. 2021 edition. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union. DOI:10.2785/963837. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/3888793/12287170/KS-TC-20-008-EN-N.pdf/6a86d53e-d0b8-d608-988d-d91f0cef6c21?t=1611673495829.
Beręsewicz M, Białkowska G., Marcinkowski K., Maślak M., Opiela P., Pater R., Zadroga K. (2021). Enhancing the Demand for labour survey with skills from online job advertisements using model-assisted calibration. Survey Research Methods 15(2), pp. 9999-10020. https://dx.doi.org/10.18148/srm/2021.v15i2.7670.
Congregado E., Gałecka-Burdziak E., Golpe A., Pater R. (2021), Unemployment invariance hypothesis and structural breaks in Poland, The Journal of Economic Asymmetries 24, November 2021, e00198, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeca.2021.e00198.
Congregado E., Gałecka-Burdziak E., Golpe A., Pater R. (2020), Asymmetry and non-linearity in discouraged and added worker effects, Eastern European Economics, https://doi.org/10.1080/00128775.2019.1710215.
Pater R., Szkoła J., Kozak M. (2019), A method for measuring detailed demand for workers’ competences, Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 13 (2019-27), s. 1-29; http://dx.doi.org/10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2019-27.
Cwynar A., Cwynar W., Pater R., Filipek K. (2019), Social media as information source in finance: Evidence from the community of financial market professionals in Poland, The International Journal of Digital Accounting Research 19, s. 29-58.
Antczak E., Gałecka-Burdziak E., Pater R. (2018), Unemployment and vacancy flows in spatial labour market matching at the regional level. The case of a transition country, Journal of Applied Economics 21(1), s. 25-43; DOI: 10.1080/15140326.2018.1526874.
Antczak E., Gałecka-Burdziak E., Pater R. (2018), What affects efficiency in labour market matching at different territorial aggregation levels in Poland?, Bulletin of Economic Research DOI:10.1111/boer.12171.
Pater R. (2017), In there a Beveridge curve in the short and the long run, Journal of Applied Economics 20(2), p. 283-303, DOI: 10.1016/S1514-0326(17)30013-2.
Gałecka-Burdziak E., Pater R. (2016), Discouraged or Added Worker Effect? Which one Prevails in the Polish Labour Market?, Acta Oeconomica 66(2), pp. 491-507, DOI: 10.1556/032.2016.66.3.6.
Pater R., Lewandowska A. (2015), Human Capital and Innovativeness of the European Union Regions, Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research 28 (1), s. 31-52, DOI:10.1080/13511610.2014.962487.
Conducted courses:
Undergraduate and graduate courses: Macroeconomics, International labour market, Fostering employment, Econometrics
Materials for students are available at the relevant courses at the Blackboard platform.
Newspaper and Internet articles can be found on the Department web page.
Contact data
Robert Pater, PhD
Professor of Economics
Department of Economics and Finance
email: rpater@wsiz.edu.pl
35-225 Rzeszów, ul. Sucharskiego 2
room RA131
tel.: 017/ 86-61-134
Office hours
Thursdays: 10:00-11:30
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