This paper addresses the issue of the gender pay gap in the formal and informal labour markets in Poland. The authors verify the hypothesis of the existence of a gender pay gap in informal work and compare this gap with the one observed in the formal (registered) labour market. Various analyses...

The economies of Vienna and Bratislava have followed quite different development paths over the last decades. While Vienna's population increased by about 20% within two decades, Bratislava's population mostly stagnated. However, when measured in GDP per capita at purchasing power parties,...

Die Studie gibt eine Einschätzung des derzeitigen und zukünftigen Migrationspotentials aus den Mittelund osteuropäischen EU-Ländern (MOEL-11) und den drei Westbalkanstaaten Bosnien und Herzegowina, Nordmazedonien und Serbien (WB-3) mit dem Ziel, die Abschätzung der Bevölkerungsentwicklung...

Anhand der Fachliteratur wird untersucht, welchen Einfluss die Tarifbindung auf die Verteilung hat. Hierbei werden drei Verteilungsaspekte betrachtet: Erstens, der Einfluss der Tarifbindung auf die funktionale Einkommensverteilung - also der Aufteilung des erwirtschafteten Einkommens auf die...

This brief provides descriptive evidence on completion of multiple higher education degrees in Finland. In the year 2020, there were altogether 7,100 individuals enrolling in higher education who already had higher education degrees. A quarter of them already had more than one higher education...

Rund zehn Jahre ist es her, seit Frey und Osborne mit ihrer Studie über die Automatisierungsrisiken von Berufen in den USA die Debatte über das Ende der Arbeit durch die Digitalisierung weltweit befeuert haben. Seitdem erschienen zahlreiche wissenschaftliche Studien, um die...

This paper introduces innovative, newly developed forward-looking indicators of negotiated wage growth in the euro area using data on collective bargaining agreements from seven countries: Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Austria and Greece. The paper demonstrates how...

This study is the first to examine employment effects by gender in Austrian firms and thus provides insight into the role of Austrian firms engaged in foreign trade for women's labour market opportunities and participation in firms. Using a matched employer-employee dataset based on various...

The paper discusses possible directions and magnitudes of the relationship between the social security driven tax wedge, employment and shadow employment in Russia and Ukraine. The first section presents a summary of the economic and institutional background for development of the current size...