Austria

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Babies and Bosses - Key Outcomes of Austria compared to OECD average

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21-Nov-2007

Key indicators on fertility, female and sole parent employment, childcare participation, child poverty and gender pay gap.

Pensions at a Glance 2007: Highlights - Austria

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07-Jun-2007

This document presents the main highlights for Austria from Pensions at a Glance 2007: Austria has the second highest public spending on pensions in the 30 OECD countries; even after recent changes to ...

Pensions at a Glance 2007: how does your country compare? A selection of indicators

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07-Jun-2007

Gross pension replacement rates (pre and post reform), Net pension replacement rates and Pension wealth, from OECD Pensions at a Glance - Public Policies across OECD Countries 2007 Edition.

Austria 2004 - Tax-benefit country chapter - Benefits and Wages

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02-Mar-2006

The “Country Chapters” provide detailed descriptions of tax and benefit rules in a consistent format across countries, summaries of policy trends, and example calculations of benefit entitlements and tax burdens.

Reforming federal fiscal relations in Austria

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30-Jan-2006

Andrés Fuentes, Eckhard Wurzel and Andreas Wörgötter

This paper reviews the fiscal relations between the three levels of government in Austria and points to the scope for reforming them with a view to improving the efficiency of the public sector.  Economics Department Working Paper 474.

Economic Survey of Austria 2005: Fragmented decision making needs to be reduced

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31-May-2005

Economic Survey of Austria 2005, excerpt taken from chapter 3. Financing and spending responsibilities in some spending programmes, such as hospital care and social assistance, need to be concentrated ...

Economic Survey of Austria 2005: Reforming federal fiscal relations

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31-May-2005

Revisiting the distribution of tasks as well as the funding principles across the levels of government is likely to have a high potential to improve public sector efficiency.

Economic Survey of Austria 2005: Fiscal policy issues

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31-May-2005

To achieve fiscal consolidation while raising public sector efficiency, budgeting procedures should be improved. Distortions in the tax system should be reduced and  pension reform needs to be completed.

Meeting of the OECD Council at Ministerial Level, 2005: Enabling Globalisation

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02-May-2005

This year’s OECD Ministerial Council Meeting will be held at OECD Headquarters on 3-4 May 2005 under the chairmanship of Göran Persson, Prime Minister of Sweden, with the overarching theme of “Enabling ...

Babies and Bosses - Reconciling Work and Family Life (Vol. 2): Austria, Ireland and Japan

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13-Nov-2003

Raising children and having a career both rate highly as important life goals for many people. Helping parents to achieve these goals is vital for society: parental care plays a crucial role in child development and parental employment promotes economic prosperity.