The ongoing financial market and economic crisis has caused the producing economy to experience its deepest slump in 50 years. The Austrian labour market has been responding by a decrease in employment and a substantial increase in unemployment, both of which are expected to continue well into...

Aus der Einleitung: Als Teil des Forschungsprojektes »Auswirkung der demographischen Alterung auf ältere Arbeitskräfte und die Belegschaftsstruktur von Betrieben« erarbeitet die gegenständliche Studie eine Abschätzung der künftigen Entwicklungen am Arbeitsmarkt. Basierend auf einer...

Policies to reduce the gender pay gap feature prominently on the political agenda and interventions in the labor market are frequently proposed, claiming a persistent wage gap. We examine the change of the gender wage gap in Austria between 2002 and 2007 with new data from administrative records...