Job seekers can influence the arrival rate of job offers by the choice of search effort and the search methods they use. In this paper we empirically investigate the contribution of the use of different search methods on the outcome of search. Using unique data on the search behaviour of job...

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...

Der vorliegende AMS report, der auf einem im Auftrag der Landesgeschäftsstelle des AMS Steiermark im Frühjahr 2001 abgeschlossenen Forschungsprojekt (Auftragnehmer: Joanneum Research, Institut für Technologie- und Regionalpolitik) basiert, thematisiert die Wirkungen der vom AMS eingesetzten...