The paper examines the question of the emergence of multinational firms from Eastern Europe in Austria on different levels of aggregation: The first part uses aggregated data on inward foreign direct investment (FDI) in Austria from Central- and East European Countries (CEECs).(...)

Die vorliegende Publikation ist eine Studie über die Arbeitsbedingungen in der österreichischen Gastronomiebranche (Restaurants und Hotels). Vorgestellt werden ihre Hauptmerkmale, der rechtliche Rahmen bzw. arbeitsmarktliche Regulation, die Arbeitsbedingungen, der Zugang der Arbeitnehmer zur...

Gemäß § 82 Abs. 1 Z 2 VAG setzt die Benennung als Abschlussprüfer bei Versicherungsunternehmen voraus, dass die Haftung des Abschlussprüfers angemessen durch einen Versicherungsvertrag gedeckt ist ...

This paper presents a framework for analysing the effects of economicdevelopment in Eastern Europe on Austria's regions. Therefore we concentrate on the effects of enhanced East-West trade, which results from the economic development in the transition countries.

The EU experience with youth unemployment has changed over recent years with the launchand re-launch of the Lisbon Strategy and the Bologna process. A dramatic shift has takenplace from the 1990s emphasis on labour market flexibility as a tool to abate youth long termunemployment to the more...

Starting from Professor Kornai´s assertion about the necessity to focus on the long-termperspectives of the transformation process, we analyze in this paper the Lisbon performanceof the countries of the European Union from such a long-term, structural perspective. Wepresent in a simple form the...

This paper investigates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality in India andinvestigates likely mechanisms. A recent OECD-dominated literature shows that mortality atmost ages is pro-cyclical but similar analyses for poorer countries are scarce, and bothincome risk and mortality...

We analyze the impact of short-run economic fluctuations on age-specific mortality usingBayesian time series econometrics and contribute to the debate on the procyclicality ofmortality. For the first time, we examine the differing consequences of economic changesfor all individual age classes....

This article provides a comprehensive econometric analysis of factors driving aggregatemortality rates over time. It differs from previous studies in this field by simultaneouslyconsidering an extensive set of macroeconomic, socio-economic and ecological factors asexplanatory variables. Germany...

Using data on product-level prices matched to the producing …rm’s unit labor cost, wereject the hypothesis of a full and immediate pass-through of marginal cost. Since wefocus on idiosyncratic variation, this does not …t the predictions of the Ma´ckowiak andWiederholt (2009) version of the...