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The integration of migrant women and youth into the labour market depends upon institutional ramifications (in particular the immigration regime, the welfare model and the education system), on supply factors (in particular the educational attainment level and occupational skills, language...
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During the last decade, policy-makers have increasingly devoted attention to the factors that influence the rate and direction of innovation. In particular, developments in the ICT sector have been discussed as a currently dominant source of both technological change and overall economic growth....
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Family policy is getting increasing public policy attention in the EU as a result of population ageing and the challenge of the sustainability of economic growth. It is being recognised that a sustainable rise in the fertility rate is needed in order to put a break on population ageing....
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employment rates of mothers with children younger than 15 years. Using data from the 1995 and 2002 Austrian Microcensus, combined …' employment probabilities. In line with theoretical considerations and most of the international sub-literature, we find a … negative elasticity of mothers' employment rates to child-care costs as well as positive elasticity with regard to wages. The …
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Austria is a small open economy that in the last decades underwent two different waves of increasing trade integration … to China have facilitated employment growth, especially in high quality segments. Overall, these results add a cautious …
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Globalisation has been associated with increased international mobility of capital but less so of labour partly because of legal restrictions. In theory, labour mobility and trade are generally substitutes in respect of tradeable goods and services. There are, however, also instances of...
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In this paper we develop a long run macroeconomic model for Austria to simulate the effects of aging on employment …
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financial aspects. Using an agricultural sector model for Austria, we show that the reform will further decrease agricultural …
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