Projects

Project

Ongoing project since: 13.07.2026

Evaluation of the Medium-term Effects of Active Labour Market Policies by Age Group

Project lead:
Helmut Mahringer

Contractor project: Public Employment Service Lower Austria

JEL-Codes: J64, J62

Project

Ongoing project since: 31.10.2025

Evaluation Services for Compulsory Education Up to the Age of 18

Project lead:
Benjamin Bittschi

Project team member:
Stefan Angel
Helmut Mahringer (WIFO)
Thomas Lankmayer
Sandra Rigler (öibf)

Contractor project: Federal Ministry for Labour, Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection

Project

Ongoing project since: 19.02.2025

Debtor Careers Before and After Consumer Insolvency. Is there a "Fresh Start"?

Project lead:
Stefan Angel

Project team member:
Elisabeth Fidrmuc
Philipp Warum (WIFO)
Karin Heitzmann (WU Vienna)

Contractor project: Austrian Academy of Sciences

JEL-Codes: K35, G51, D18

Project

Ongoing project since: 17.12.2024

Evaluation of the Scholarship for the Training of Skilled Workers of the Public Employment Service

Project lead:
Helmut Mahringer

Project team member:
Stefan Angel
Benjamin Bittschi
Rainer Eppel
Ulrike Famira-Mühlberger (WIFO)
Friederike Weber (prospect Unternehmensberatung)

Contractor project: Federal Ministry for Labour, Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection, Public Employment Service Austria

Project

Project duration: 11.12.2024 to 30.04.2026

Evaluation of the Integration Subsidy

Project lead:
Helmut Mahringer
Rainer Eppel

Project team member:
Stefan Angel
Lukas Schmoigl
Stefan Weingärtner

Contractor project: Public Employment Service Austria

Project

Project duration: 22.08.2024 to 31.12.2024

Policy Review of R&I on Access to Affordable and Good-quality Housing: Evidence from the EU

Project lead:
Stefan Angel

Contractor project: European Commission

Project

Project duration: 22.06.2023 to 30.11.2023

Poverty-proof Welfare State of the Future. Contribution to the Social Report 2024

Project lead:
Christine Mayrhuber
Marian Fink

Contractor project: Federal Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection

Project

Ongoing project since: 20.06.2023

Supply Chain Intelligence Institute Austria (ASCII)

Project lead:
Klaus Friesenbichler

Project partner: Austrian Institute of Economic Research, Supply Chain Intelligence Institute Austria

Project

Project duration: 21.04.2023 to 21.11.2025

Evaluation of the COVID-19 Short-time Work

Project lead:
Ulrike Huemer

Project team member:
Stefan Angel
Rainer Eppel
Helmut Mahringer
Marion Kogler
Lukas Schmoigl
Stefan Fuchs (WIFO)
Trude Hausegger
Michael Auer
Tobias Krüse
Gernot Mitter
Assma Hajji (prospect Unternehmensberatung)
Josef Zweimüller
Damian Osterwalder
Lorenzo Pesaresi (University of Zurich)

Contractor project: Public Employment Service Austria, Federal Ministry of Labour and Economy

Project

Project duration: 12.01.2022 to 31.05.2023

Activatable Labour Market Potentials and "Hidden Unemployment"

Project lead:
Helmut Mahringer

Project team member:
Stefan Angel
Benjamin Bittschi
Thomas Horvath
Marion Kogler

Contractor project: Vienna Chamber of Labour