The Austrian population will continue to grow over the next decades. At the same time the number of working age people is projected to decline until 2030. How this demographic change will translate into changes in the total number of people in the labour force (employed plus unemployed people)...

WIFO regularly produces employment forecasts, broken down by occupations, sectors and gender, for use as a basis for medium-term projections of future skills requirements. The current figures cover the period from 2010 to 2016 and offer an ample set of forecasts for 38 sectors and 57...

Socio-economic enterprises (Sozialökonomische Betriebe – SÖB) and non-profit employment projects (Gemeinnützige Beschäftigungsprojekte – GBP) offer transitional jobs as well as accompanying training and socio-pedagogical support to unemployed job-seekers with placement difficulties. The...

The availability of an adequate pool of suitable labour is a key location factor for the labour-intensive hotel and restaurant business. Yet, in spite of high unemployment (jobless rate: 17.3 percent) and schemes to attract seasonal workers from abroad, the sector still encounters considerable...

The ongoing financial market and economic crisis has caused the producing economy to experience its deepest slump in 50 years. The Austrian labour market has been responding by a decrease in employment and a substantial increase in unemployment, both of which are expected to continue well into...

WIFO analysed key tools of labour market promotion programmes, using microeconometric methods, for their effects on the subsequent working life of beneficiaries. All measures thus analysed were found to have a positive effect on the labour force participation rate. Nevertheless, methods are not...

Structural transformation and changes in the production system result in changes of the occupational profiles and qualifications demanded by the labour market. However, adjusting to the new requirements of the labour market takes time. Against this background, medium- to long-term forecasts of...

Since Austria has joined the EU in 1995 and participated in programmes of the European Social Fund (ESF), the Austrian Public Employment Service AMS has been organising measures to promote further education and training at enterprise level. Based on experience acquired in the first...

One pillar of the National Action Plan for Employment (NAP) is its focus on active labour market measures, especially with regard to the long-term unemployed. Within the framework of Guideline 2, "New start for long-term unemployed adults", activities were introduced to prevent long-term...

Seen from an international perspective, the Austrian labour market is characterised by high labour turnover. Employment entry is fuelled by a number of sources: graduates of schools and apprentices enter employment; employees change jobs; individuals who temporarily left the labour force...