New Data: Labor Force Participation of Immigrants in Austria

Check out how immigrants from different world regions and countries fare on the Austrian labor market. Based on extensive administrative data (see below) we can observe immigration to Austria between 2000 and 2017 and analyze labor market activities of prime-working age individuals until the end of 2018. Web applications allow for user defined inquiries to…

Employment gaps across refugee cohorts in Austria

This study uses comprehensive register data to analyze employment among refugees from 31 different countries of origin. The time it takes to start employment differs markedly across the five labor market access cohorts investigated.  Recent cohorts tend to do less well than earlier cohorts. Employing a theoretical framework we hypothesize the impact of individual supply-side…