We analyse the characteristics of workers who provide work on the basis of a civil or commercial contract, but who are dependent on or integrated into the firm for which they work. We argue that these dependent self-employed lose their rights under labour law, receive less favourable benefits...

Over the last decade Italy has seen a strong increase in the number of workers on the border between self-employment and employment. Depending on the data source the “parasubordinati”, i.e. workers with a “contract of continuous collaboration” (collaborators) represented between 1.8%...

We analyse the characteristics of workers who provide work on the basis of a civil or commercial contract, but who are dependent on or integrated into the firm for which they work. We argue that these dependent self-employed lose their rights under labour law, receive less favourable benefits...

Following the European Commission's guidelines, WIFO has undertaken a monitoring of the implementation of the Austrian National Reform Programme within the framework of the European 2020 growth strategy. The main components are an analysis of Austria's progress towards reaching its five EU 2020...

Der vorliegende Bericht gibt einen synthetischen Überblick über die aktuelle wirtschaftliche und soziale Lage in Österreich. Österreich weist demnach im EU-Vergleich eine günstige Ausgangsposition auf, ist aber mit erheblichen Herausforderungen für die Zukunft konfrontiert. Der Bericht...

In Österreich leisteten im Jahr 2012 knapp 170.000 Personen 68 Mio. unbezahlte Überstunden. Zwei Drittel davon wurden von Angestellten erbracht. Unbezahlte Überstunden werden vor allem von höherqualifizierten Beschäftigten geleistet. Für Unternehmen bedeuten unbezahlte Überstunden eine...