The idea of a job guarantee (JG) to tackle unemployment has become popular again over recent years. Critics often point to the fiscal costs and the macroeconomic impact of a government financing full employment. In this paper, we analyse the fiscal costs of a JG for long-term unemployed people...

Vor dem Hintergrund hoher und persistenter Arbeitslosigkeit wird die Idee staatlich finanzierter Arbeitsplätze sowohl theoretisch als auch empirisch vermehrt diskutiert (Atkinson 2015; Tcherneva 2018; Palley 2018; Picek 2019). Häufig wird kritisch auf die hohen fiskalischen Kosten solcher Programme...

Die Studie geht den Fragen nach, wie viele Jugendliche in Österreich von einem NEET-Status betroffen sind, welche sozialstrukturellen Merkmale sie aufweisen und was die Ursachen für ein erhöhtes NEET-Risiko sind. Weiterhin wird untersucht, von welchen Faktoren ein (erfolgreicher) Ausstieg aus...

This paper studies the relationship between union power, unemployment and wages. We find many theoretically well-established links suggesting that unemployment negatively affects bargaining power. As an empirical strategy we use Austrian data from 1966 until 2015 on the development of...

The number young people not in education, employment or training (NEET) has been rising since the beginning of the economic and financial crisis in 2008. This article contributes to the discussion about the reduction of the NEET rate by addressing the questions: Which structural factors can...

Short-time work was frequently used in the EU during the COVID-19 pandemic to minimize crisis-related layoffs. This paper focuses on the short-time work (STW) scheme in Austria by exploring the characteristic features of the Austrian Coronavirus STW model and examining how it was utilized. We...