The Waldviertel is a structurally challenged region in the north-west of Lower Austria. Located in the north-east of Austria and extending from a long border with the Czech Republic as an incipient EU member in the north and the Danube river in the south, its population had been declining for...

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...