In this paper we look at the effects of immigration and trade with Eastern Europe on unemployment in Austria. Using … possible detrimental impacts in unemployment entry effects and unemployment duration effects. We find that unemployment entry … immigration effect on unemployment duration. Within almost all subgroups there is a significant increase in the length of …

The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of unemployment duration. This Paper … evaluates a unique policy change that prolonged entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum of 209 … programme was an endogenous policy response to a crisis affecting individuals with severe labour market problems. The main …

costs due to changes in the unemployment insurance system and costs due to behavioural responses of unemployed workers …This paper studies how changes in the two key parameters of unemployment insurance – the benefit replacement rate (RR …) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) – affect the duration of unemployment. In 1989, the Austrian government made …

program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non …-eligible unemployed in treated regions, and a difference-in-difference identification strategy to control for preexisting differences … unemployment duration and probability of long term unemployment decrease. These effects are the largest when the program intensity …

We study the impact of employment quota on firms' demand for disabled workers. The Austrian Disabled Persons Employment …-compliance tax generates strong employment effects for low-wage firms and weak effects for high-wage firms. We also find that growing …

productivity. Education as well as innovation and production require skilled labour as inputs. This and the fact that learning … opportunities differ across workers determine simultaneously the long-run level of employment and the long-run rate of growth. We … rates but not necessarily less employment. The effects of redistributive policy measures among workers depend on the form of …

possible between different segments of the labour market, we concentrate on unemployment experience and wage growth for a panel … take a closer look at the impact this trade growth has had on the Austrian labour market. To differentiate as far as … of individual workers in Austrian industry. The results show rather small employment effects, the impact on wage growth …

It is frequently argued that unemployment plays a crucial role for the occurrence of right-wing extremist crimes. We … unemployment is high. The big difference in right-wing crime between East and West German states can mostly be attributed to … differences in unemployment. This finding reinforces the importance of unemployment as an explanatory factor for right-wing crime …

Right-wing extremism is a serious problem in many societies. A prominent hypothesis states that unemployment plays a … significant positive relation between unemployment and right-wing criminal activities. We show further that the big difference in … right-wing crime between East and West German states can mostly be attributed to differences in unemployment. This finding …