This article forecasts the demand for labour by qualification levels up to the year 2000. The projections are based on the development of employment by economic sectors in the sixties and seventies. A juxtaposition of the demand and the supply projections (under the assumption that changes in...

The rapid change in the structure of the labour market presents new challenges to public employment services. The increasing differentiation of tasks, the general rise in unemployment, and the need to react speedily to regional labour market problems, to coordinate interest groups, plants and...

As labour market flexibility gains momentum, a closer look at the composition of labour demand, i.e., the number of persons working and their average annual working hours, is warranted in order to gain an insight into the development of the volume of labour and labour productivity in the light...

With EU membership Austria has become obliged to adopt the international definitions and concepts for the calculation of the unemployment rate. In 1994 the questionnaire of the microcensus was adapted to the labor force concept used by international organizations. Since the unemployment rate...

In Europe, during the 1990s, university graduates have increasingly experienced difficulties of employment. This development also affected Austria. The changing job market of graduates is caused by various inter-related factors: on the one hand, the increased reorganisation and rationalisation...

Even though wage differences between occupations and industries in Austria are amongst the highest in the EU and the country has an above-average gender wage gap, income distribution among households is amongst the most egalitarian in Europe. This seaming paradox can be explained by a...

Comparative education research is getting increasingly important in the face of the EU process of open coordination of education policies. An international comparison of expenditure on education as a percentage of GDP puts Austria in the front league of the developed world. The high priority...