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,...

Globalisation has been associated with increased international mobility of capital but less so of labour partly because of legal restrictions. In theory, labour mobility and trade are generally substitutes in respect of tradeable goods and services. There are, however, also instances of...

In this paper I analyse the export behaviour of firms located in different Central European countries (Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia) with respect to migration. Ever since the seminal article by Gould (1994) on immigrant links to their home country and due to empirical research...

We analyse the effect of workforce composition by birthplace in Austrian firms on workers' wages. In our model, each worker's productivity may depend on whether the co-workers are of the same or of a different birthplace and wages depend therefore both on the relative size of workers' groups as...

Synthesis Forschung führt im Auftrag des Arbeitsmarktservice Österreich regelmäßig Analysen zum österreichischen Arbeitsmarkt durch (siehe dazu auch die entsprechenden AMS-Publikationen im AMS-Forschungsnetzwerk unter www.ams-forschungsnetzwerk.at). Das vorliegende AMS info beinhaltet eine...

Many people in the European Union fear that Eastern Enlargement leads to major job losses. More recently, these fears about job losses have extended to high skill labor and IT jobs. The paper examines with unique firm level data whether these fears are justified for the two neighboring countries...