Policies to reduce the gender pay gap feature prominently on the political agenda and interventions in the labour 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...

This paper investigates the performance of labour markets during the recent crisis for 28 industrialised countries, specifically the reaction of employment and unemployment indicators relative to output changes. We construct a composite indicator for output as well as labour market performance....

We examine the gender wage gap in Austria using new matched employer-employee data from 2007. We investigate the gap at the conditional wage distribution of men and women, and decompose it into the parts which are attributed to different characteristics and different returns to these...

This paper investigates the performance of labor markets during the recent crisis for 28 industrialized countries, specifically the reaction of employment and unemployment indicators relative to output changes.We construct a composite indicator for output as well as labor market performance. The...

Wir untersuchen geschlechtsspezifische Lohnunterschiede in Österreich anhand eines neuen Datensatzes, der aus der Verknüpfung von Lohnsteuerdaten des Jahres 2007, Daten des Mikrozensus und Daten der Sozialversicherungen gewonnen wurde. Mit diesen Daten können wir auch für Arbeitslosigkeit,...

Wir untersuchen geschlechtsspezifische Lohnunterschiede in Österreich anhand eines neuen Datensatzes, der aus der Verknüpfung von Lohnsteuerdaten des Jahres 2007, Daten des Mikrozensus und Daten der Sozialversicherungen gewonnen wurde. Mit diesen Daten können wir auch für Arbeitslosigkeit,...

"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...

The availability of affordable institutional child-care is increasingly discussed as an important determinant of the labour force participation of parents, particularly of mothers. This paper examines the impact of child-care costs on the employment rates of mothers with children younger than 15...

We construct two matching scenarios to estimate the long-term impact of targeted wage subsidies in Austria on the subsequent labour market integration of previously unemployed participants. Even if substantial dead-weight loss is taken into account, the treated experience a significant increase...