The economic situation of young people is unsatisfactory. Educational inequalities have been widening for over a decade, due to a sharp decline in the results of the most highly disadvantaged students. The unemployment rate for the 20-24 age bracket has not dropped below 16% for nearly 30 years....

Analysis of the relationship between taxes and self-employment should account for the interplay between responses in self-employment and wage employment. To this end, we estimate a two-state multi-spell duration model which accounts for both observed and unobserved heterogeneity using a large...

Mit der Einführung einer "Ausbildung bis 18" soll der Anteil der frühen AusbildungsabbrecherInnen (FABA) reduziert und die Zahl der Bildungsabschlüsse in Österreich erhöht werden. Der vorliegende Bericht stellt die Ergebnisse der wissenschaftlichen Grundlagenanalysen dar, die vom Institut...