WIFO analysed key tools of labour market promotion programmes, using microeconometric methods, for their effects on the subsequent working life of beneficiaries. All measures thus analysed were found to have a positive effect on the labour force participation rate. Nevertheless, methods are not...

Structural transformation and changes in the production system result in changes of the occupational profiles and qualifications demanded by the labour market. However, adjusting to the new requirements of the labour market takes time. Against this background, medium- to long-term forecasts of...

Since Austria has joined the EU in 1995 and participated in programmes of the European Social Fund (ESF), the Austrian Public Employment Service AMS has been organising measures to promote further education and training at enterprise level. Based on experience acquired in the first...

One pillar of the National Action Plan for Employment (NAP) is its focus on active labour market measures, especially with regard to the long-term unemployed. Within the framework of Guideline 2, "New start for long-term unemployed adults", activities were introduced to prevent long-term...

Socio-economic enterprises (Sozialökonomische Betriebe – SÖB) and non-profit employment projects (Gemeinnützige Beschäftigungsprojekte – GBP) offer transitional jobs as well as accompanying training and socio-pedagogical support to unemployed job-seekers with placement difficulties. The...

Der vorliegende Beitrag umfaßt die Ergebnisse einer Studie zu den quantitativen und qualitativen Beschäftigungswirkungen einer betrieblichen Umstellung auf nachhaltigere Produktion im Sinne des integrierten Umweltschutzes. Eine Befragung von Unternehmen in fünf EU-Staaten ergibt, daß...

"We examine the gender wage gap in Austria using new matched employer-employee data from 2007. We estimate quantile regressions and investigate the gender wage gap at the conditional wage distribution of men and women. We decompose the gender wage gap into the parts which are due to different...

Developed countries are investing a considerable amount of financial resources on active labour market programs such as training schemes, employment subsidies and public sector job creation, aiming to tackle the problem of persisting unemployment. Along with their rising efforts in this field,...

We combine information from a job-seeker survey and two sources of administrative data to shed light on the job search behaviour and job search success of the unemployed. Our particular focus is on the way the Public Employment Service (AMS) shapes job search effort and outcomes in terms of the...

The Austrian population will continue to grow over the next decades. At the same time the number of working age people is predicted to decline until 2030. In how far this demographic change will translate into changes in the total number of people in the labour force (employed plus unemployed...