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...