Policies to reduce the gender pay gap feature prominently on the political agenda and interventions in the labour market are frequently proposed, claiming a persistent wage gap. We examine the change of the gender wage gap in Austria between 2002 and 2007 with new data from administrative...

The availability of affordable institutional child-care is increasingly discussed as an important determinant of the labour force participation of parents, particularly of mothers. This paper examines the impact of child-care costs on the employment rates of mothers with children younger than 15...

Policies to reduce the gender pay gap feature prominently on the political agenda and interventions in the labor market are frequently proposed, claiming a persistent wage gap. We examine the change of the gender wage gap in Austria between 2002 and 2007 with new data from administrative records...

We examine the gender wage gap in Austria using new matched employer-employee data from 2007. We investigate the gap at the conditional wage distribution of men and women, and decompose it into the parts which are attributed to different characteristics and different returns to these...

Öffentliche Arbeitsvermittlung versucht, arbeitslose Arbeitsuchende möglichst rasch in den Arbeitsprozess zu integrieren. Gleichzeitig sollen vermittelte Arbeitslose eine dauerhafte, möglichst gut entlohnte und den Qualifikationen der jeweiligen Arbeitskraft sowie den Erfordernissen des...

Die Arbeitslosigkeit ist stark segmentiert, die einzelnen Arbeitslosen weisen sehr unterschiedliche Erwerbssituationen und Problemlagen auf. Zum Teil sind sie nur kurz und vorübergehend von Arbeitslosigkeit betroffen, während andere lange und häufig arbeitslos sind. Zudem sind für den...