I investigate the effect of income on mortality of the pensioners, com- paring three subsequent policy periods in Austria. The pensioners who retired in the second period received 25% lower pension than those in the first period. This reduction in income was removed in the third policy period....

The potential in survey data for the study of simultaneous changes in earnings disparities, inequality of household income, and the connections between them has thus far been underexploited. This paper presents various data on four Central and East European (CEE) countries and, for the sake of...

This collection presents an updated bibliography of those empirical forest ecosystem service valuation studies in the German speaking countries which relate to demand oriented measures of the utility of public goods. The associated database (which is provided as a separately downloadable...

With the development towards comprehensive and more sophisticated border control regimes, the problem of protection seekers’ access to EU territory has increasingly come into focus. Disorderly movement is presently the main avenue to safety in the EU, and human smugglers act as important...

This paper puts emphasis on the earnings development at the lower end of the earnings distribution and its development over time. The main objective is to provide more insight into the mechanism of impoverishment and marginalisation of various groups of people as well as the dynamics.

Die Mitgliedstaaten der Europäischen Union haben sich im Rahmen der "Offenen Methode der Koordinierung" auf gemeinsame Kennzahlen für den Sozialbereich geeinigt. Damit sollen fundierteempirische Grundlagen für die nationalstaatlichen Politiken und Initiativen auf EU-Ebene geschaffen werden....

Im Juni 2010 haben sich die Europäischen Regierungen auf eine neue Wachstumsstrategie bis zum Jahr 2020 geeinigt, die erstmals und ausdrücklich einen Schwerpunkt zur Verringerung von Armut und sozialer Ausgrenzung mit konkreten Zielgrößen formuliert. Die österreichische Bundesregierung hat...