Austria has a significantly lower employment rate of mature workers than Australia. This is the result of a more generous retirement system and more pronounced discrimination of mature workers rather than worse health among workers. In spite of a higher rate of work-related accidents in...

There are considerable differences in the incidence of sickness, the pattern of diseases and the duration of episodes of sickness by age, gender, education, and employment status. The employed have a significantly better health record than the unemployed. The analysis of health data of the...

With Austria's membership in the EU the compilation of internationally comparable labor market data has become obligatory. The internationally comparable household survey results in much lower unemployment than the national administrative sources. The difference is largely due to the fact that...

The EC promotes the mobility of tertiary education students in an effort to promote the establishment of a Single European education space. However, increasing student mobility within the EU raises the question of equal treatment of students of another EU member state. This becomes a contested...

The Oberwart district – as well as the Burgenland as a whole – continues to face serious challenges on the labour market. The creation of employment has been more dynamic than in the remainder of Austria, however, neither in the Burgenland nor in Oberwart could the increase in the labour...

Over the last two decades, university education in the EU has undergone a transition from elitist to mass education. Consequently, in 2000 the university student population in the EU numbered some 12.6 million, constituting 5 percent of the population of working age (15 to 64). Italy,...

In the last 20 years immigration to Austria has not only gained momentum but has also undergone significant structural change. On the one hand refugees, asylum seekers and family members of foreign residents entered in increasing numbers, on the other rising migration flows resulted from...