Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are much higher among Austrian mothers. In order to find out to what extent these differences can be attributed to differences in the tax transfer-system, we perform a comparative...

Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are much higher among Austrian mothers. In order to find out to what extent these differences can be attributed to differences in the tax transfer system, we perform a comparative...

Welfare-oriented analyses of economic outcome measures such as income and wealth generally rest on the assumption of pooled and equally shared resources among all household members. Yet the lack of individual-level data hampers the distribution of income and wealth within the household context....

Across countries, women own significantly fewer businesses than do men. We show that this is due, in large part, to the fact that the propensity to start businesses of women is significantly lower than that of men. The lower propensity of women, in turn, appears to be highly correlated to...

In this paper we study the link between women's responsibility for children and their preferences. We use a large random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed survey data. We find more patient choices among women...

This paper analyses couples' childbearing desires by using data from the Austrian Generation and Gender Survey (GGS) conducted in 2008. Couple disagreement is examined, first, independently of whether only she or he wants a child, second, by looking at the predictors of his and her dissent...

Ausländer sind von Arbeitslosigkeit besonders betroffen. Über alle Altersgruppen hinweg war ihre Arbeitslosenquote mit 13,4 Prozent drei Mal so hoch wie jene der Inländer (4,6 Prozent). Dies stellt die Statistik Austria bei der Auswertung des Mikrozensus 2006 fest. Man kann davon ausgehen,...

Im vorliegenden AMS report 10 werden die im Rahmen der Wiedereinsteigerinnen-Initiative eingesetzten Instrumente und Maßnahmen zur Unterstützung des Wiedereinstiegs dargestellt sowie die Ergebnisse der vom Institut für Höhere Studien in Wien durchgeführten Evaluation dieser Initiative...

Inhalt: 1 Einleitung. 2 Steigende Erwerbsbeteiligung. 3 Atypische Beschäftigung und die Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie. 4 Gender Pay Gap. 5 Berufliche und sektorale Segregation. 6 Bildungsbeteiligung der Frauen. 7 Soft Skills als weibliche Domäne. 8 Fazit. 9 Literatur