Das vorliegende Paper beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, welche Bedeutung die Digitalisierung für Planung, Praxis und Wirksamkeit von Sozialpolitik in Österreich hat. Auf Basis facheinschlägiger Literatur werden bestimmte Dimensionen von Digitalisierung und ihre Relevanz für die Sozialpolitik...

Private bankruptcy offers over-indebted persons the possibility to obtain a discharge of debts under certain conditions. From 1995 to 2023, a total of about 215,000 private bankruptcy petitions were filed in Austria. The annual number of applications rose steadily until the end of the 2000s....

Using a unique combination of Austrian administrative data, we show that start-ups' search and hiring decisions matter for their business success. Firms that report vacancies to the Public Employment Service in the early stage of their existence stay longer in the market and grow stronger....

Despite their importance for the success of firms, the job prospects of the unemployed and overall unemployment, the factors that determine firms' decisions to report vacancies to the Public Employment Service and to hire the unemployed are largely unexplored. We address this research gap by...

Many studies indicate that the share of homeowners among young Millennials born in the 1980s is consistently lower across Europe than among Generation X, primarily born in the 1970s, at the same age. The reasons for this disparity - whether it rather stems from increased economic constraints...