The study deals with the relations and trade-offs between gainful employment and housework and tries to evaluate the total of non-marketed goods and services produced by private households. A review of alternative methods suggests that results of such an evaluation may differ considerably....

This paper presents a review of the theoretical viewpoint of the role of migration in socio-economic processes in the light of actual migratory processes within the different regions in Europe and the role of migration policy in structuring and accommodating migration. Labour migration within...

The adjustment of employment to the economic upswing in the eighties was slower than in the seventies. The link between the labour and goods market was also tighter. In the eighties, the structural component of unemployment was larger than in the past. This increase in structural unemployment...

Between 1989 and 1996, Austria recorded an influx of some 340,000 migrants, altogether a lower number than the flow of refugees after World War II but slightly higher than the migration of guest workers in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The latter had been viewed in a positive light by most of...

Austria ranks among the top quarter of EU countries in terms of its spending on social protection, yet the poverty risk continues to be relatively high – a pointer that traditional social safety systems no longer offer adequate protection in view of the increasing flexibility of the working...

Turkey and Europe are closely interlinked through migration, trade and investment flows. In the year 2000, the interrelationships entered a new phase. Return migration of Turkish migrants to Turkey set in, of often well-educated second-generation migrants, triggered by the fast economic growth...

"There is no simple answer to the question of the potential impact of migration on the EU economy. EU migration policy is expected to meet the requirements of economic and social policy, in particular of the Lisbon Agenda, as well as national cultural, political, strategic and security...