From about the end of 2008, the financial and economic crisis has been increasingly mirrored in substantial job losses and a massive rise in unemployment. At the start of the downturn it was mainly the young and male workers in manufacturing who were affected. With the doldrums continuing, the...

Active labour market policies were given a major boost in Austria within the scope of the National Action Plan for Employment (NAP). Expenditure for labour market policy measures rose substantially in 1999; excellent economic conditions, together with NAP initiatives, improved the labour market...