Over the past 35 years, employment in Austria grew at a slower pace than the EU average. Massive shifts in employment occurred away from shrinking and towards expanding sectors, and new jobs were created primarily in the public sector. Annual working hours declined precipitously over the period,...

The deceleration of labor supply growth in the late 1990s is linked with the aging of the work force. The process of aging raises macroeconomic as well as microeconomic policy issues. The macroeconomic issues are linked to the rise in transfer costs of an increasing proportion of retired elderly...

Labour market mechanisms are being transformed, as the composition of labour supply and demand are changing in the wake of demographic changes and industrial reform and restructuring. In the course of the implementation of new organisations of work, labour turnover increased significantly since...

Austria has a significantly lower employment rate of mature workers than Australia. This is the result of a more generous retirement system and more pronounced discrimination of mature workers rather than worse health among workers. In spite of a higher rate of work-related accidents in...

There are considerable differences in the incidence of sickness, the pattern of diseases and the duration of episodes of sickness by age, gender, education, and employment status. The employed have a significantly better health record than the unemployed. The analysis of health data of the...

With Austria's membership in the EU the compilation of internationally comparable labor market data has become obligatory. The internationally comparable household survey results in much lower unemployment than the national administrative sources. The difference is largely due to the fact that...

The EC promotes the mobility of tertiary education students in an effort to promote the establishment of a Single European education space. However, increasing student mobility within the EU raises the question of equal treatment of students of another EU member state. This becomes a contested...