Die Diskussion über die Wiederbelebung der Vermögensteuer in Deutschland hat in den vergangenen Monaten Fahrt aufgenommen. Mit Verweis auf Ungleichheit bei der Verteilung von Vermögen und den steigenden staatlichen Finanzierungsbedarf fordern Parteien und NGOs eine stärkere Besteuerung...

Improper quality adjustment has long been identified as a source of potential measurement bias in consumer price indices (CPIs). However, as no benchmark for quality adjustment exists, it has always been difficult to estimate a potential bias. For this paper, we develop a corridor in which...

The increasing concentration of income and wealth on the national and international level is a topic that has received increased attention both in social science research as well as public policy debates. While data availability is a well-known and often-lamented problem in wealth studies,...

Demographic research has repeatedly demonstrated differences in fertility on the subnational level, especially between urban and rural regions. The most recent literature focuses on historical developments of total fertility, cohort fertility, or indicators of late fertility (35+). The present...

This article offers a new way of classifying and measuring state support for reproductive equity across countries, focusing on medically assisted reproduction (MAR) and abortion. Drawing on the notion of stratified reproduction and comparative welfare state research, we propose a...

Austria's economy is recovering over the projection period from a recession that, according to the revised National Accounts, proved comparably severe to Germany's. The rebound is driven by private consumption, while foreign trade in goods continues to contract for the time being. Residential...

Der aktuelle EcoAustria Competitiveness Index (ECI) zeigt auch im ersten Halbjahr 2025 keine echte Trendwende: Österreich verliert im europäischen Vergleich weiterhin an Wettbewerbsfähigkeit. Besonders bei Investitionen, Exporten und Produktivität bleibt die Entwicklung hinter der anderer...

Die österreichische Außenwirtschaft ist ein zentraler Motor des wirtschaftlichen Wachstums. Dieser Motor ist jedoch zunehmend ins Stottern geraten. Gründe dafür sind - neben innerstaatlichen Faktoren - wachsende geopolitische Unsicherheiten und Krisen, die schwächelnde deutsche...

Each of Austria's three RBDs: the Danube, the Rhine, and the Elbe is part of three international RBDs. An international agreement, permanent co-operation body, and international RBMP are in place in all three RBDs, but only the Danube and the Rhine iRBMPs (international RBMPs) can be easily...

This VET policy brief produced by Cedefop presents a snapshot of vocational education and training policy developments in Austria between 2020 and the end of 2024 (2). It presents the context and the challenges the country faces, a selection of the latest VET-related statistics, as well as the...

The Floods Directive (FD) established a framework for flood risk management. It foresees 6-yearly cycles aiming at the reduction of the adverse consequences associated with floods in the European Union (EU). The first cycle covered the period 2010-15. The second cycle covered the period 2016-21....

In 2021 and particularly in 2022, gas prices rose sharply in Europe due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the previous throttling of Russian gas supply to Western Europe. Because of the merit-order system, this also led to an increase in electricity prices in Austria and in many other EU...

While Austrian students outperform most of their European peers, basic skills have decreased over the past decade. Education outcomes remain strongly linked to socio-economic and migrant background. Despite efforts to increase the number of places in ECEC, especially for under-3-year-olds, there...

The Education and Training Monitor's country reports present and assess the main recent and ongoing policy development at all education levels in the 27 EU Member States. They give the reader more in-depth insight into the performance of a country as regards the EU-level targets agreed within...

The Education and Training Monitor's country reports present and assess the main recent and ongoing policy development at all education levels in the 27 EU Member States. They give the reader more in-depth insight into the performance of a country as regards the EU-level targets agreed within...

Why do workers delay retirement when their early retirement age (ERA) rises? Understanding this is essential for predicting the effects of ERA increases in different contexts and assessing distributional impacts of such reforms. We study ten years of reforms in the United Kingdom which increased...

The implementation of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), which requires assurance on sustainability reports for numerous companies, has reached different implementation stages throughout the EU. This study investigated the key uncertainties and challenges arising from the...

As part of the EESC's efforts to promote fundamental rights and the rule of law, a delegation from the EESC's Fundamental Rights and Rule of Law Group visited Austria on 19 and 20 March 2025. The delegation met with several civil society representatives, specifically civil society organisations...

As part of the EESC's efforts to promote fundamental rights and the rule of law, a delegation from the EESC's Fundamental Rights and Rule of Law Group visited Austria on 19 and 20 March 2025. The delegation met with several civil society representatives, specifically civil society organisations...

As populations age, the sustainability of long-term care systems increasingly depends on the availability of informal care, particularly from partners. This paper addresses the question of how much care we may expect partners to provide in the future by projecting demand for long-term care...

We study the short- and medium-term extensive and intensive margins of intangible investments in firm growth processes. The intensive and extensive margins of investment are both highly skewed and differ across sectors. Less productive firms are less likely to invest in intangibles, while...

„Kleine Lücke, große Wirkung“ – Wo manche nur leeren Raum und „Schmuddelecken“ sehen, entdecken kreative Architektinnen und Architekten das Potenzial für innovatives Wohnen. In seiner 14. Auflage widmet sich der renommierte Gestaltungspreis der Wüstenrot Stiftung einer der...

Labour shortages in Europe have led firms to adopt two key strategies: automation and the employment of migrants. This study empirically examines the relationship between robot adoption and immigrant labour (differentiated by region of origin and education level) in Austrian firms using a novel...

Mit fortschreitender Digitalisierung findet ein erheblicher Teil der drahtlosen Sprachkommunikation und Datennutzung nicht mehr im Außenraum, sondern in Innenbereichen wie Gebäuden und Fahrzeugen (z. B. Zügen, Kfz) statt. Eine Neuausrichtung der regulatorischen Vorgaben hin zu einer...

The Austrian legal system follows the civil law tradition, meaning that primary legal sources are generally codified. Decisions by courts and administrative bodies do not count as authoritative legal sources per se (no official adherence to precedent). Nonetheless, such decisions - especially by...

This report investigates the issue of local actors resisting the implementation of high-speed rail (HSR) routes through the example of reactions to the Brenner Base project in Germany and Austria. In order to understand the causes of significant resistance, the report contrasts reactions to the...

We contribute new cross-national evidence about the nature of measurement errors in employment earnings, fitting the same error components model to harmonised earnings data for Austria and the UK. The model allows for measurement error in the administrative data and linkage error as well as...

The medium-term budget projection for 2025 to 2029 indicates a persistently high need for fiscal consolidation in Austria's public finances. If the consolidation measures announced by mid-April remain unchanged, the general government deficit would remain close to 4 percent of GDP throughout the...