Unemployment and Labour Market Flexibility: Austria

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International Labour Organization, 1991 - Business & Economics - 134 pages
Austro-Keynesianism (based on an expansionary fiscal policy, a strong currency policy and an incomes policy) can be seen as an explanation for Austria's success in combining low unemployment with moderate inflation, social consensus and informal tripartite co-operation in most fields.
 

Contents

Preface
1
Economic performance in the 1970s
7
Low unemployment but a rising trend
22
Concluding remarks
28
Wage flexibility and unemployment
45
Labour market flexibility
63
29
66
31
72
Who receives unemployment benefits?
81
37
86
Introduction
89
Education
97
Options for the future
117
Figures
133
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