Austria is among the very few countries in the European Union which have managed to maintain comparatively low unemployment rates and high employment rates. In international comparison Austrian unemployment is very stable over the business cycle. This is mainly due to the high sensitivity of the...

In this paper we challenge the traditional labour market view, which argues that unemployment is determined in the long-term by its equilibrium rate, which in turn is affected by permanent shocks of some exogenous variables. In our empirical approach we decompose the dynamics of employment and...

Territoriale Beschäftigungspakte (TBP) verfolgen das Ziel, die regionale Beschäftigungssituation zu verbessern und regionale Diskrepanzen am Arbeitsmarkt durch Koordination der Arbeitsmarktpolitik mit Regional- und Strukturpolitik zu verringern. Durch Verknüpfung angebotsseitiger...