Within the scope of a pilot study, WIFO examined chapters of the household of Upper Austria from a gender perspective (gender budget analysis). Education, health and sports were analysed by a number of analysis methods. Using an expenditure incidence analysis, the state's spending on health was...

Austria's GDP grew by just 0.3 percent in 2014, making for a sluggish economy for the third year in a row. Causes for the sluggishness were not just continued investment reticence on the part of businesses and muted expenditure on the part of private households but also the lack of any strong...

After stabilising in the years after 1995, the Austrian social expenditure ratio went up again, albeit slightly, in 1999. As reported by the European System of Integrated Social Protection Statistics (ESSPROS) used by the EU, Austria spent ATS 781 billion (€ 56.8 million) on social security in...

Calculated on the basis of the European System of Integrated Social Protection Statistics (ESSPROS), social expenditures (including social security, health and old-age pensions) in Austria rose by 0.2 percent in 1997. The ratio of social expenditures to GDP, on the other hand, fell from 29.6...

The effects of pension harmonisation on individual pension levels can be shown by applying the provisions of the General Retirement Income Act (APG) to the insurance patterns of persons retiring and receiving their first old-age pensions in 2002-03. For men, the General Retirement Income Act...

Wenn Arbeitskräfte in Österreich krankheitsbedingt ihre Erwerbstätigkeit beenden oder den Ruhestand antreten, gehen dem oftmals mehrjährige Krankheitsgeschehnisse voran. Indikatoren wie die Inanspruchnahme von Gesundheitsdienstleistungen, die Zahl der verordneten Heilmittel, der Arztbesuche,...

In 2008 the social protection expenditure in Austria amounted to € 79.77 billion according to the calculation method standardised in the EU (ESSPROS), and was thus by 5.2 percent higher than in the previous year. This was the most considerable increase since 2001. In 2008, social protection...

The study was designed to project the effect which raising the women's retirement age to that of men will have on the old-age dependency ratio and on the financial management of the pension insurance scheme for the dependently employed (ASVG). The WIFO pension model was used, first, to simulate...

Seen against the background of the relatively favourable economic conditions prevailing in 2000 (3.5 percent in real economic growth), expenditure for social security totalled € 59.6 billion, an increase over 1999 by 1.7 percent in real terms and thus markedly lower than the rise in GDP. As a...

The analysis brought to light unexpectedly short employment periods in the Austrian labour market: on average, an employment terminated in 1997 had been effective for just 1.8 years. Unsurprisingly, average employment was very short in the sectors with traditional seasonal employment. What came...