Das Österreichische Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (WIFO) führte in der zweiten Jahreshälfte 2000 im Auftrag der Bundesgeschäftsstelle des AMS Österreich eine Prognose der österreichischen Berufs- und Qualifikationslandschaft bis 2005 durch. Hierbei wird das Erwerbsgeschehen - d.h....

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...

There are marked differences in health conditions of the Austrian population by socioeconomic status, gender, age, education, occupation and income as well as by nationality. The low educational attainment of migrants, their concentration in particular occupations and industries and their...

There are considerable differences in the incidence of sickness, the pattern of diseases and the duration of episodes of sickness by age, gender, education and employment status. Employed have a significantly better health record than the unemployed. The question why this should be so is...

A challenge facing countries with an ageing population is how to retain a larger proportion of older workers in the work force while at the same time maintaining productivity growth - the latter being a necessary condition for economic sustainability of globalised economies. Apart from...