Die Beschäftigungsquoten Älterer unterscheiden sich deutlich in den EU-Ländern. Dieser Beitrag vergleicht die Auswirkungen von institutionellen Strukturen in den Bereichen Arbeitslosenversicherung, Erwerbsminderung und Alterssicherung auf die Beschäftigungsquote der 55- bis 64-Jährigen in...

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...

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...

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,...