In essence, the OECD's labor market policies designed to reduce unemployment in Europe derive from the conviction that the educational systems and the labor markets have not adjusted fast enough to the structural change induced by technological innovation. In addition, the EU points to the slow...

The recent inflow of foreign workers was similar to the one experienced in the early seventies, both as far as the quantity and the time span is concerned. The sharp increase in labour supply, particularly for manufacturing and service jobs of average and low qualification is reflected in a...

Long-term unemployment is eventually becoming a problem in Austria as economic restructuring in the wake of increasing competition is taking its toll. During 1994 as the general unemployment rate amounted to 6.5 percent, 31.5 percent of all unemployed had been on the dole for more than 6 months....

This article forecasts the demand for labour by qualification levels up to the year 2000. The projections are based on the development of employment by economic sectors in the sixties and seventies. A juxtaposition of the demand and the supply projections (under the assumption that changes in...

The rapid change in the structure of the labour market presents new challenges to public employment services. The increasing differentiation of tasks, the general rise in unemployment, and the need to react speedily to regional labour market problems, to coordinate interest groups, plants and...

As labour market flexibility gains momentum, a closer look at the composition of labour demand, i.e., the number of persons working and their average annual working hours, is warranted in order to gain an insight into the development of the volume of labour and labour productivity in the light...

With EU membership Austria has become obliged to adopt the international definitions and concepts for the calculation of the unemployment rate. In 1994 the questionnaire of the microcensus was adapted to the labor force concept used by international organizations. Since the unemployment rate...