Income distribution as it currently is and its long-term development are studied from a variety of data sources. In terms of workers, the study focuses on the wages and salaries of the dependently employed. It finds that the gap between low- and high-wage earners is broad and has further widened...

In modernen Wohlfahrtsstaaten wird das Marktgeschehen in starkem Maße durch die Politik beeinflusst. Indem der Staat Steuern einhebt und Staatsausgaben tätigt, beeinflusst er sowohl die Struktur und das Niveau der Produktion als auch die Einkommensverteilung und damit die Verteilung der...

In Österreich wurde 1993 ein steuerfinanziertes Pflegegeld eingeführt. Zwischen 1994 und 2006 stieg die Anzahl der PflegegeldbezieherInnen um rund 25%. Die Finanzierung der Pflege älterer Menschen sowie die effiziente Gestaltung der Pflegeleistungen sind nicht zuletzt vor dem Hintergrund des...

Austria currently takes 11th place in an international ranking of unit labour costs. Labour is most expensive in Norway, Germany and Switzerland, where one hour of manufacturing labour costs almost a quarter more than in Austria. In Austrian manufacturing, one hour of work cost € 20.31 in...

In an international hierarchy of labour costs, Austria ranks 11th, after Germany, Switzerland, the Scandinavian countries, Japan, the U.S. and the Netherlands. The labour factor is most expensive in Germany. At ATS 340 per hour of labour, German manufacturers pay more than a quarter over the...

In Austria, the discussion of old-age pensions has so far been based on highly pessimistic demographic perspectives and the assumption of a static labour market situation. Whereas the demographic projections for the next 30 years prepared in the second half of the 1990s were starting out from a...

In an international hierarchy of labour costs, Austria ranks at 10th place. Labour is most expensive in Norway (36 percent more than in Austria), followed by Switzerland (25 percent), Denmark and Germany (some 20 percent). For Austria's manufacturing, an hour of blue-collar labour cost 20.93 €...

In an international hierarchy of labour costs, Austria currently ranks 9th and is thus well within the EU average. Labour is most expensive in Norway, where one hour of work is paid 34 percent higher than in Austria, followed by Denmark (+29 percent), Germany (+26 percent) and Switzerland (+24...

The unit labour cost position of Austrian businesses improved clearly in the second half of the 1990s and has remained largely stable since the year 2000. In Austrian manufacturing, one hour of blue-collar labour cost 20.80 € in 2004, hence approximately 2.25 percent less than the average paid...