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Austria's International Ranking of Unit Labour Costs Remained Unchanged in 2001
Guger, Alois - In: WIFO Monatsberichte (monthly reports) 75 (2002) 9, pp. 573-579
Austria currently takes 11th place in an international ranking of unit labour costs. Labour is most expensive in Norway …, Germany and Switzerland, where one hour of manufacturing labour costs almost a quarter more than in Austria. In Austrian … rise. Non-wage labour costs in Austria are high because a large portion of the annual income is in the form of tax …
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Competition in Public Short-distance and Regional Passenger Transport
Wieser, Robert - In: WIFO Monatsberichte (monthly reports) 75 (2002) 3, pp. 167-178
been introduced in Austria. The definition of profitability of public enterprises, which is very wide at present, screens …
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International Unit Labour Cost Position Slightly Improved in 2002
Guger, Alois - In: WIFO Monatsberichte (monthly reports) 76 (2003) 9, pp. 683-691
In an international hierarchy of labour costs, Austria ranks at 10th place. Labour is most expensive in Norway (36 … percent more than in Austria), followed by Switzerland (25 percent), Denmark and Germany (some 20 percent). For Austria …
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Currency Problems Affected International Unit Labour Cost Position in 2003
Guger, Alois - In: WIFO Monatsberichte (monthly reports) 77 (2004) 9, pp. 679-687
In an international hierarchy of labour costs, Austria currently ranks 9th and is thus well within the EU average …. Labour is most expensive in Norway, where one hour of work is paid 34 percent higher than in Austria, followed by Denmark …
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Austria's International Unit Labour Cost Position Improved in 2004
Guger, Alois - In: WIFO Monatsberichte (monthly reports) 78 (2005) 11, pp. 751-760
The unit labour cost position of Austrian businesses improved clearly in the second half of the 1990s and has remained largely stable since the year 2000. In Austrian manufacturing, one hour of blue-collar labour cost 20.80 € in 2004, hence approximately 2.25 percent less than the average paid...
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Decline in Self-financing Capacity in 2001 Due to the Economic Downturn
Peneder, Michael; Pfaffermayr, Michael - In: WIFO Monatsberichte (monthly reports) 75 (2002) 3, pp. 151-159
In 2001, Austrian manufacturing experienced a marked slowdown in demand. Due to the weak growth performance on a world-wide scale, exports to the main trading partners lost their dynamism. WIFO estimates that production expanded by only 1.8 percent in 2001. In the WIFO industry surveys, firms...
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Atypische Beschäftigung in Europa 1996-2009
Schmeißer, Claudia; Stuth, Stefan; Behrend, Clara; … - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) - 2012
Um die Wirkung atypischer Beschäftigungsverhältnisse auf Struktur und Ausmaß sozialer Ungleichheit abschätzen zu können, zeichnet das vorliegende Discussion Paper für 20 europäische Länder nach, wie sich atypische Beschäftigung im Vergleich zu regulären Beschäftigungsverhältnissen...
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Austrian Linkages to the European Economy and the Transmission Mechanisms of Economic Crisis
Francois, Joseph; Holzner, Mario; Pindyuk, Olga - FIW - 2011
Like most of the global economy, Austria suffered from recession in 2008-2009. In this paper we deconstruct the pattern … of recession, and the transmission of the global recession to Austria’s economy. We provide a new a new breakdown of the … employ a multi-region computable general equilibrium (CGE) model, focused on Austria and its major trading partners. We …
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Is employment of social risk groups the key to sustaining the European welfare regimes?
Josifidis, Kosta; Supic, Novica; Pucar, Emilija Beker; … - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 3 (2011) 6, pp. 623-640
The European welfare regimes face two sets of challenges. One internal, specific for the welfare state itself, and the other external, imposed by changing economic, political and economics conditions. The first challenge lies in the growing gap between the rigid welfare state design and flexible...
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Bank debt and performance of Continental European firms
Krivogorsky, Victoria; Grudnitski, Gary; Dick, Wolfgang - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 3 (2011) 6, pp. 593-608
When the source of external capital for Continental European firms is examined, debt markets have historically supplied a much larger percentage of the external capital than equity markets, and firms rely much more on bank debt than bonds for their external funds. In this environment banks have...
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