In Western Europe, highly integrated product markets coexist with profound differences between national labour market regimes in terms of both material labour standards and industrial relations institutions. This offers transnational firms the opportunity to target investment towards regimes...

Der vorliegende AMS report, der auf einem im Auftrag der Landesgeschäftsstelle des AMS Steiermark im Frühjahr 2001 abgeschlossenen Forschungsprojekt (Auftragnehmer: Joanneum Research, Institut für Technologie- und Regionalpolitik) basiert, thematisiert die Wirkungen der vom AMS eingesetzten...

Within the last two decades there has been a remarkable intensification of activities in science and technology in Austria, and these changes have recently been accompanied by distinct efforts towards the development of evaluation processes. Evaluation mainly concentrates on Austria's technology...

Sexual discrimination may persist in absence of discriminatory preferences if women find it more difficult to signal the quality of their human capital or to write self-enforcing labor market contracts. This argument is presented in the context of a model of allocation of individuals with...

Unlike other European countries, most industrial policy in Austria still takes place at the Federal level. With recent open access to European funding programmes on the one hand and increasing regional engagement in industrial policy questions on the other, we see ongoing changes in this...