Vor dem Hintergrund des demographischen Wandels am österreichischen Arbeitsmarkt in Verbindung der sozial- und pensionsrechtlichen Veränderungen wurde im Auftrag des Arbeitsmarktservice Österreich, Abteilung Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsinformation eine Analyse der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik für...

The European Employment Strategy has set the goal of raising the retirement age of workers in the EU through a strategy of active ageing. Yet despite some progress over the last decade, empirical data show persistent diversity across EU member states. Institutional arrangements of social and...

The paper analyzes the contemporary organizational restructuring of production and work within firms. We emphasize the shift from a "Tayloristic" organization of work (characterized by significant specialization by tasks) to a "holistic" organization (featuring job rotation, integration of tasks...

"Digitalisierung", "Internationalisierung", "Spezialisierung" und "Flexibilisierung" sind nur einige Schlagwörter, die die Arbeitswelt von heute prägen. Sie durchdringen zunehmend alle betrieblichen Leistungsprozesse und verändern die Anforderungen an die MitarbeiterInnen aller...

This paper studies how portable skill accumulated in the labor market are. Using rich data on tasks performed in occupations, we propose the concept of task-specific human capital to measure the transferability of skills empirically. Our results on occupational mobility and wages show that labor...

Using a large representative German data set and various concepts of self-employment, this paper tests the jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (AER 2004). Consistent with its theoretical assumptions we find that self-employed individuals perform more tasks and that their work...