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...

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...