This paper argues that the large differences among EU countries in post-crisis employment performance are to a large extent driven by the need to adjust corporate balance sheets, which had greatly deteriorated during the boom years in some countries but not in others. To close the large gaps...

Austria is among the very few countries in the European Union which have managed to maintain comparatively low unemployment rates and high employment rates. In international comparison Austrian unemployment is very stable over the business cycle. This is mainly due to the high sensitivity of the...

In this paper we challenge the traditional labour market view, which argues that unemployment is determined in the long-term by its equilibrium rate, which in turn is affected by permanent shocks of some exogenous variables. In our empirical approach we decompose the dynamics of employment and...

We study Austrian job reallocation in the period of 1978 to 1998, using a large administrative dataset where we correct for spurious entries and exits of firms. We find that on average 9 out of 100 randomly selected jobs were created within the last year, and that about 9 out of randomly...

Dass soziale Kompetenzen für die Lebensbewältigung allgemein und speziell für die Berufsausübung relevant sind, darüber sind sich ExpertInnen vielfach einig. Spätestens seit den 1980er Jahren wurde deutlich klarer, dass nicht nur die formale Ausbildung für den beruflichen Erfolg...

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,...

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Trade and migration have become more important in recent years for Austria and Germany. The transition in Central and Eastern Europe has played an important role in this development. The derived labor market consequences are not fully clear so far. This paper presents the results of econometric...