We analyse the consequences of starting a wage subsidised job, marginal employment, for unemployed workers. Marginal employment is a type of wage subsidy paid to unemployed workers and they do not lose their unemployment benefits if the wage is below a certain threshold. We ask if the unemployed...

In this paper we evaluate the impact of the old-age part-time scheme (OAPT) on the Austrian labour market which was a policy to allow flexible retirement options for the elderly with an aim to increase labour supply. According to our matching estimates employment probability increases slightly,...

This paper studies the relevance of social interactions among the unemployed. Identification is based on a salient and selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change affects entitled individuals not only directly,...

Die von AMS Österreich (Abt. Arbeitsmarktforschung und Berufsinformation), der Caritas Österreich, dem Institut Analyse, Beratung und interdisziplinäre Forschung (abif) sowie dem Zentrum für Soziale Innovationen - ZSI (im Rahmen der'Dynamischen Qualitätssicherung' des BMWF) veranstalteten...