WIFO analysed key tools of labour market promotion programmes, using microeconometric methods, for their effects on the subsequent working life of beneficiaries. All measures thus analysed were found to have a positive effect on the labour force participation rate. Nevertheless, methods are not...

In the EU persons with health limitations and disabilities are not integrated equally into working life relative to persons without limitations and disabilities. According to the EU-SILC 2009 persons with health limitations and disabilities have an employment rate of 45.5 percent as an EU...

Report based on a study conducted for the European Parliament, Bonn 2010 (95 pages)

Within the scope of efforts to raise the retirement age, increasingly greater importance has been awarded in recent years to schemes aimed at reintegrating older unemployed workers in the employment system. For the coming years, no relief can be expected in the employment situation for older...

The intention underlying the introduction of the child care benefit was to offer parents greater freedom of choice in matters regarding child care and their participation in the labour market. However, according to the findings presented here, the new regime – so far – has led to a longer...

The need for a pension reform is usually argued by reference to the demographic aging process. Even so, it is essential not to lose sight of an equally serious problem in this context: in order to safeguard the financial soundness of the social security system, the greatest number of persons...

Women in Austria suffer a substantial loss of earnings once they have children. By the time the youngest child has grown up, the loss accumulates to between € 103,000 (one child) and € 136,000 (three or more children), provided that the woman returns to gainful employment. If, however, the...

When Austria joined the European Union it became a recipient of moneys from the European Social Fund (ESF) dedicated to labor market promotion activities. This means that a proportion of Austrian payments to the EU is returned to Austria earmarked for this particular purpose. The ESF aims to...

Since 1995, moneys from the European Social Fund (ESF) have been used in Austria to support labor market policy measures. The ESF's brief is to foster structural change by promoting employment and developing human resources. As the European Union handles its financial involvement in the labor...

If the retirement age is raised the financial burden on public households is lowered in two ways: through a reduction in pension payments and through the increase in income tax revenues and social security contributions. Two effects diminish the savings potential, however: first, some of those...