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...

The collapse of communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe marked a historical event for the countries on both sides of the iron curtain. Using the recently released EU KLEMS database on detailed sectoral growth and employment measures, we analyse the productivity performance in the period...

This study has been prepared for the European Commission (Framework Contract B2/Entr/05/091) and is composed of five sections. The first three sections all deal with assessing the role of skills in the European economy Section 1 undertakes a number of econometric exercises to analyse the...

The recent economic downturn The decline in GDP during the recession has been concentrated in manufacturing and construction and triggered significant (though smaller) declines in basic services (distribution, hotels and restaurants, and transport). The decline in manufacturing production was...

Inequality is a multidimensional phenomenon though it is often discussed along a single dimension such as income. This is also the case for the various decomposition approaches of inequality indices by recipients or income sources. In this paper we study one- and multidimensional indices on...

An Analysis Based on the European Union Structure of Earnings Survey (SES) This study provides an in-depth evaluation of earnings differences within and across countries and their evolution over time using three different waves of the Structure of Earnings Survey (SES) – for 2002, 2006 and...

This Policy Note reports on the analyses undertaken in a number of wiiw Working Papers that are the output of two projects financed by the Anniversary Fund of the Austrian National Bank (Project no. 18474 and no. 17166). Four of the papers are based on survey data from the FIMAS dataset, which...

In der vorliegenden Studie im Auftrag des AMS Niederösterreich hat Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche (The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies) die Auswirkungen der Corona-Pandemie und der sie begleitenden Einschränkungen der wirtschaftlichen Tätigkeit...

This study quantifies possible impacts of medium-term structural changes in the global economy on the Austrian economy. Emphasis is placed on the effects of continued medium term growth in emerging markets, especially in Asia and Latin America, on the structure of the Austrian economy. The...

Die vorliegende Studie analysiert in einem internationalen Vergleich die wichtigsten Merkmale der Entlohnung und Besteuerung des Faktors Arbeit, die Produktivität und andere Faktoren der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit sowie die Zusammensetzung des Steueraufkommens in Österreich (AT) und neun mittel-,...