The different economic situation of men and women in Austria demonstrates the necessity to adopt further equality measures. The systematic use of gender budget analysis constitutes an important basis for the improvement of gender equality. Since 1999, the European Union has considered gender...

Within the scope of a pilot study, WIFO examined chapters of the household of Upper Austria from a gender perspective (gender budget analysis). Education, health and sports were analysed by a number of analysis methods. Using an expenditure incidence analysis, the state's spending on health was...