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Economic Survey - Austria 2003: Some aspects of sustainable development

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28-Oct-2003

More use of economic instruments would improve the cost effectiveness of environmental policy. Development aid funds have increased and are being targetted towards more effective use.

Economic Survey - Austria 2003: Product market competition and macroeconomic performance.

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28-Oct-2003

The recent reform of competition law could be made more effective by a better staffing of the competition authority. Services often suffer from high entry barriers and relatively low productivity performance; ...

Economic Survey - Austria 2003: Issues in Fostering Labour Force Participation and Employment

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28-Oct-2003

The recent pension reforms mark substantial process towards sustainability of government finances. Labour market participation of older workers and women needs to be encouraged. Wages at the micro level ...

Economic Survey - Austria 2003: Fiscal policy: Sustaining consolidation via public sector reform

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28-Oct-2003

Government expenditure cuts are necessary to create room for the planned tax cuts and looming pressures from a progressively aging population. The public sector can become more efficient and the federal ...

Economic Survey - Austria 2003: Recent macroeconomic developments and medium-term issues

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28-Oct-2003

Employment and growth performance have slipped recently. Austria is facing a number of challenges from a changed economic environment which diminishes the benefits of the traditional corporatist approach ...

WIFO - Recent developments in the work programme - NERO 2003

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28-May-2003

Paper presented at the OECD NERO meeting, 19 May 2003, OECD Headquarters in Paris.

Encouraging environmentally sustainable growth in Austria

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20-Feb-2002

Jens Høj and Andreas Wörgötter

Economics Department Working Paper 322. This document analyses the economic impacts of selected environmental policies in Austria with an emphasis on the use of economic instruments and incentives versus ...

Policy Brief: Economic Survey of Austria, 2001

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17-Dec-2001

Economic growth in Austria is currently weakening and will be adversely affected by the global shock emanating from the 11 September terrorist attacks in the United States. However, growth is projected ...

Economic Survey - Austria 2001

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17-Dec-2001

Economic growth in Austria is currently weakening and will be adversely affected by the global shock emanating from the 11 September terrorist attacks in the United States. However, growth is projected ...

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