privatization is useful as well as profitable for an economy and empirically present the extent of privatization in Austria and … other European Union countries. In order to assess the impact of privatization in Austria on economic performance, we …

Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are … joint taxation with income splitting for married couples, Austria taxes everyone individually, which leads to lower marginal …

, Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia, whose economic structure is characterized by strong export orientation. We … programmes through development banks, tax/security payment deferrals) though with varying weight and scope. Only in Austria and …

socio-economic outcomes and country case studies of Austria, Germany and Switzerland, which illustrate the political …

model with two key features is developed: (1) apprentices are more productive due to industry-specific training, but (2 …) from the firm's perspective, when training apprentices, technological innovation is costly since training becomes obsolete …. Thus, apprentices correlate with slower adoption of skillreplacing technologies, but also less employment polarization. We …

net cost of training (during the training period) are a major determinant for the demand for apprentices. Different count … data models, in particular hurdle models, are used to estimate the effect of net cost on the demand for apprentices. The … for apprentices, once the firm has decided to train. For policy purposes, these results indicate that subsidies for firms …