Understanding the relation between different types of long-term care and the determinants of individual choice of long-term care types is fundamental for efficient policy making in times of ageing societies. However, empirical research on this issue has revealed both national and methodological...

In this work we simulate the effects of tax autonomy of the Austrian states on the levels of public employment in each state. We show that depending on the strength of the public sector lobby, tax autonomy would require reduction of employment in the public sector between 25% and 35% of the...

Our paper makes a first attempt to address the impact of skills and skill use in the analysis of the gender wage gap using the PIAAC dataset. Using the case of Austria, we show that skill use as well as the skill match play an important role with regard to wage regressions of men as well as...

In this paper, we analyze the development of public consumption expenditure in Austria starting in the 1940s. We focus our attention on two hypotheses as to why public consumption expenditure has been constantly increasing: Wagner's law and Baumol's cost disease. The estimated income elasticity...

Die in der jüngsten Vergangenheit feststellbare zunehmende Digitalisierung von Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft erscheint auf ersten Blick als radikal umwälzende Entwicklung. Im Detail betrachtet zeigt sich, dass die aktuellen Tendenzen nur eine Fortsetzung der bestehenden Entwicklungen der...

Die für 2019 geplante europäische Kapitalmarktunion zielt auf eine vertiefte Integration der Kapitalmärkte der EU-Mitgliedsländer ab. Sie knüpft sowohl am Binnenmarkt als auch an der im Zuge der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise geschaffene Bankenunion an. Als Argumente für die...

I study the economic consequences of the Red Army's misdeeds after WWII. I exploit differences in spatial economic activity across the arbitrarily drawn and only for 74 days lasting liberation demarcation line between the Red Army and the Western Allies in South Austria. Dismantling and...

"Energie radikal verändern" ist das zweite Policy Brief, das ein vertieftes Verständnis über das österreichische Energiesystem vermittelt. Auf Basis eines neuen Mindsets sollen die Potentiale für künftige Strukturen des Energiesystems aufbereitet werden. Österreich hat in den letzten zehn...

The publication presents the results of the research project "Religious Denominations in Vienna & Austria: Baseline study for 2016 - Scenarios until 2046" conducted by the Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The aim of this study project was twofold: Firstly, to...

We study whether long-gone but activated history can shape social attitudes and behavior even after centuries. We exploit the case of the sieges of Vienna in 1529 and 1683, when Turkish troops pillaged individual municipalities across East Austria. In 2005, Austrian right-wing populists started...

Our paper makes a first attempt to address the impact of skills and skill use in the analysis of the gender wage gap using the PIAAC dataset. Using the case of Austria, we show that skill use as well as the skill match play an important role with regard to wage regressions of men as well as...

In this work we simulate the effects of tax autonomy of the Austrian states on the levels of public employment in each state. We show that depending on the strength of the public sector lobby, tax autonomy would require reduction of employment in the public sector between 25% and 35% of the...

Our paper makes a first attempt to address the impact of skills and skill use in the analysis of the gender wage gap using the PIAAC dataset. Using the case of Austria, we show that skill use as well as the skill match play an important role with regard to wage regressions of men as well as...

In this paper, we analyze the development of public consumption expenditure in Austria starting in the 1940s. We focus our attention on two hypotheses as to why public consumption expenditure has been constantly increasing: Wagner's law and Baumol's cost disease. The estimated income elasticity...

Betriebliche Weiterbildung ist vor dem Hintergrund lebenslangen Lernens wichtig für alle Beschäftigten. Für eine arbeitnehmergerechte Weiterbildung muss der Betriebsrat an Prozessen beteiligt werden. Damit Betriebsratsmitglieder im System betrieblicher Weiterbildung motiviert und sachkundig...

COSTS orientiert sich am Anspruch, das Thema Leistbarkeit der Mobilität und die Entwicklung der wichtigsten mobilitätsrelevanten Kostendeterminanten umfassend darzustellen und zum anderen Pfade und Optionen für die Politik und Anbieterseite aufzuzeigen, wie eine leistbare Mobilität als...

2004 wurde in Österreich das Allgemeine Pensionsgesetz beschlossen, das die gesamte Erwerbsbiografie zur Berechnung der Pensionen heranzieht. In diesem Beitrag simulieren die Autoren vier verschiedene Szenarien, um die Umverteilungsströme im österreichischen Pensionssystem in Abhängigkeit...

As a consequence of World War II, Austria was divided into four di.erent occupation zones for 10 years. Before tight travel restrictions came into place, about 11 percent of the population residing in the Soviet zone moved across the demarcation line. We exploit this large internal migration...

Voter turnout has declined in many industrialized countries, raising the question of whether electoral institutions increase voter turnout. We exploit an electoral reform in the Austrian state of Burgenland as a natural experiment to identify the causal effect of opening hours of polling...

A shock to the sector composition of the local labor market can affect long-run economic development of a location. Because structural change ultimately shifts labor from agriculture to services, an early transition to manufacturing may hamper longrun prosperity. The identification strategy...

As a consequence of World War II, Austria was divided into four different occupation zones for 10 years. Before tight travel restrictions came into place, about 11 percent of the population residing in the Soviet zone moved across the demarcation line. We exploit this large internal migration...

We show that migrating extremists shape political landscapes toward their ideology in the long run. We exploit the unexpected division of the state of Upper Austria into a US and a Soviet occupation zone after WWII. Zoning prompts large-scale Nazi migration to US occupied regions. Regions that...