Austria has a significantly lower employment rate of mature workers than Australia. This is the result of a more generous retirement system and more pronounced discrimination of mature workers rather than worse health among workers. In spite of a higher rate of work-related accidents in...

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...