This paper analyzes the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on household income in Austria, using detailed administrative labor market data, in combination with micro-simulation techniques, that enable specic labor market transitions to be modeled. We find that discretionary fiscal policy measures in...

We comment on the work of Hanushek et al. (2015) and show that returns to skills are very heterogeneous and depend crucially on the tasks performed in the workplace, in line with the critique by Acemoglu and Autor (2011). Depending on the type of tasks performed at work, as well as on...

We comment on the work of Hanushek et al. (2015) and show that returns to skills are very heterogeneous and depend crucially on the tasks performed in the workplace, in line with the critique by Acemoglu and Autor (2011). Depending on the type of tasks performed at work, as well as on...

Österreich zählt mit einer Steuer- und Abgabenquote von 43,6 Prozent - gemessen an der Wirtschaftsleistung - zu den Spitzenreitern in Europa. Dennoch haben die wirtschaftlichen Herausforderungen der letzten Jahre, von der Pandemie bis zur Energiekrise, das Staatsbudget stark belastet....

Die Diskussion über die Beschäftigungseffekte von Mindestlöhnen ist seit vielen Jahrzehnten in Gange. In ihrem Beitrag verwenden Monika Köppl-Turyna, Michael Christl und Dénes Kucsera, Agenda Austria, ihr empirisches Modell, das auf der Annahme von nicht-linearen Beschäftigungseffekten von...

Peri and Yasenov (2019) exploit a natural experiment, the Mariel boatlift of 1980, to analyse the impact of immigration on wages and other labour market outcomes of natives. The authors find no impact of this (immigrant) labour supply shock on the wages of local workers. These results are...

The Austrian Beveridge curve shifted in 2014, leading to the ongoing academic discussions about the reasons behind this shift. While some economists have argued that the shift was caused by a supply shock related to the labour mar-ket liberalisation during the course of the eastern enlargement...

Österreich zählt mit einer Steuer- und Abgabenquote von 43,6 Prozent - gemessen an der Wirtschaftsleistung - zu den Spitzenreitern in Europa. Dennoch haben die wirtschaftlichen Herausforderungen der letzten Jahre, von der Pandemie bis zur Energiekrise, das Staatsbudget stark belastet....