We study the effect of job displacement on fertility in a sample of white collar women in Austria. Using instrumental …

collar women in Austria. Using an instru- mental variables approach we show that unemployment incidence as such has no …

these fears are justified for the two neighboring countries of Eastern Enlargement Austria and Germany. I find that Eastern … Enlargement leads to surprising small job losses, because jobs in Eastern Europe do not compete with jobs in Austria and Germany … competitive environment. However, I also find that multinational firms in Austria and Germany are outsourcing the most skill …

-in-difference approaches, this paper exploits an unanticipated reform in Austria which extended the maximum duration of paid and job protected …

human capital as an accumulable factor. In a study on Austria and Germany we augment the Solow model to allow for the … of human capital of Austria and Germany by weighting workers of different schooling levels with their respective wage … quantifies how wages change with years of schooling. We find that the time series evidence on Austria and Germany is not …