The importance of active labor market policy (ALMP) has been rising over the last 10 years in Austria, with public expenditures now amounting to about 0.6% of GDP. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of active labor market policies in Austria. We study the development of policy...

After four years of membership in the European Union, an interim balance can be drawn as follows: Austrian businesses and the country's economic policy had to adapt to the new regime of the single market. This meant on the one hand that the government had to cede economic policy competences to...