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On 20 November, the 12th Welfare State Symposium took place, organised by WIFO in cooperation with the Organisation of Austrian Social Security.

Temporary layoffs cause unemployment insurance costs of about 500 million per year, present WIFO labour market economists Rainer Eppel and Helmut Mahringer.

WIFO macroeconomist Stefan Schiman presents his results for the effects of the opening of the labour market to Eastern Europe on the Austrian Beveridge curve.

The GROWINPRO ("Growth Welfare Innovation Productivity") project, co-proposed by WIFO, was selected by the European Commission

Climate-related risks and opportunities and disruptive technologies as motivation for a change of perspective in the financial sector

At the Labour Market Service's information and networking evening, the focus was on work and training in times of digitalisation.

After ups and downs, Austria is one of the richest countries in the world.

The digitised legacies of the two former WIFO researchers Kurt W. Rothschild and Josef Steindl were opened at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration.

WIFO project staff member Alexander Krenek and deputy WIFO director Margit Schratzenstaller received one of six Kurt-Rothschild awards for their study "A European Net Wealth Tax"

WIFO director Christoph Badelt gave a keynote speech on the occasion of the ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the Ministry of Social Affairs.