Does the low wage sector serve as a stepping stone towards integration into better-paid jobs or at least towards integration of jobless people into employment? There is evidence for a "low-wage trap" and for a high risk of low-wage earners to get unemployed, but this may also be due to sorting...

We construct two matching scenarios to estimate the long-term impact of targeted wage subsidies in Austria on the subsequent labour market integration of previously unemployed participants. Even if substantial dead-weight loss is taken into account, the treated experience a significant increase...

In Österreich fehlte es bisher - mangels verfügbarer Daten - an fundierter empirischer Evidenz zu den gesundheitlichen Problemlagen der Erwerbspersonen und der Wirksamkeit arbeitsmarktpolitischer Maßnahmen für gesundheitlich eingeschränkte Personen. Die vorliegende Studie leistet einen...

Does the low wage sector serve as a stepping stone towards integration into better-paid jobs or at least towards integration of jobless people into employment? There is evidence for a 'low-wage trap' and for a high risk of low-wage earners to get unemployed, but this may also be due to sorting...