In Österreich fehlte es bisher - mangels verfügbarer Daten - an fundierter empirischer Evidenz zu den gesundheitlichen Problemlagen der Erwerbspersonen und der Wirksamkeit arbeitsmarktpolitischer Maßnahmen für gesundheitlich eingeschränkte Personen. Die vorliegende Studie leistet einen...

In a randomised controlled trial in Austria, lower caseloads in public employment offices led to more meetings of the unemployed with their caseworkers, more job offers, more program assignments, and more sanctions for noncompliance with job search requirements. More intensive counselling led to...

Does the low wage sector serve as a stepping stone towards integration into better-paid jobs or at least towards integration of jobless people into employment? There is evidence for a 'low-wage trap' and for a high risk of low-wage earners to get unemployed, but this may also be due to sorting...

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...

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...