A5072808197- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Digital Economy and Work Transformation
- Economic Theory and Policy
- Economic Growth and Productivity
- Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
- International Development and Aid
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Labor Movements and Unions
- Environmental Science and Technology
- Economic and Social Issues
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Economic and Technological Innovation
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Sociology and Education Studies
- Sociopolitical Dynamics in Nepal
- Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
- Economic theories and models
- Economic Zones and Regional Development
- Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Global trade and economics
- Global Security and Public Health
- Social Media and Politics
University of Vienna
2011-2023
United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research
2020
King's College London
2016
Abstract Systematic and openly accessible data are vital to the scientific understanding of social, political, economic consequences COVID-19 pandemic. This article introduces Austrian Corona Panel Project (ACPP), which has generated a unique, publicly available set from late March 2020 onwards. ACPP been designed capture impact crisis on population weekly basis. The thematic scope study covers several core dimensions related individual societal crisis. panel survey sample size approximately...
Abstract The Palma Proposition is that changes in income or consumption inequality are (almost) exclusively due to the share of richest 10 per cent and poorest 40 because ‘middle’ group between tend capture approximately 50 gross national ( GNI ). Ratio a measure concentration based on above‐mentioned proposition calculated as divided by cent. In this paper we revisit empirical basis (the relative stability ‘middle’) with new expanded data set across within developing developed countries. We...
Abstract Advances in labour‐saving technology have sparked a public debate about the ‘Future of Work’. An important role this is played by policy‐focused literature produced institutions such as government agencies, international organisations, think tanks, and consulting firms. Using qualitative coding, present study analyses ‘grey’ (a total 195 documents published English 2013–2018) with focus on what problem perceptions, frames, policy recommendations prevail literature. We find that...
Employment generation is crucial to spreading the benefits of economic growth broadly and reducing global poverty. And yet, emerging economies face a contemporary challenge traditional pathways employment generation: automation, digitalization, labor-saving technologies. 1.8 billion jobs—or two-thirds current labor force developing countries—are estimated be susceptible automation from today's technological standpoint. Cumulative advances in industrial technologies could further exacerbate...
The sudden and dramatic advent of the COVID-19 pandemic led to urgent demands for timely, relevant, yet rigorous research. This paper discusses origin, design, execution SolPan research commons, a large-scale, international, comparative, qualitative project that sought respond need knowledge among researchers policymakers in times crisis. form organization as commons is characterized by an underlying solidaristic attitude its members intrinsic organizational features which data study shared...
Systematic and openly accessible data are vital to the scientific understanding of social, political economic consequences COVID-19 pandemic. This paper introduces Austrian Corona Panel Project (ACPP), which has generated a unique, publicly available set from late March 2020 onwards. ACPP been designed capture political, impact crisis on population weekly basis. The thematic scope study covers several core dimensions related individual societal crisis. panel survey sample size approximately...
Many developing countries have, in recent years, adopted structural transformation strategies and strengthened state economic activism. While prima facie reminiscent of the post-war era's developmentalist strategies, contemporary industrial policies have resurfaced a different environment: they are often designed implemented (newly) democratic, rather than authoritarian, political regimes. This paper argues that when democratic seek to (re)deploy policies, governments must navigate specific...
Drawing upon 152 in-depth qualitative interviews with residents in Austria carried out the first year of pandemic, this article discusses how people's experiences COVID-19 policies reflect and reshape state-citizen relations. Coinciding a significant government crisis, saw pandemic measures justified reference to biological, often medical understanding health that framed disease prevention terms transmission reduction, metrics such as hospitalisation rates, etc. Instead using biomedical...
German Abstract: Die vorliegende Studie gibt einen Überblick über das Verständnis von Kohärenzpolitik im Bereich der Entwicklungspolitik in Österreich, zeigt deren Entwicklungen und Herausforderungen auf diskutiert politische verwaltungstechnische Ansätze zur Umsetzung des Konzepts "Politikkohärenz Dienste Entwicklung".
In response to labour-market crises, governments routinely adopt ‘short-time’ work schemes which supplement the incomes of workers who might otherwise be laid off. Such increase number welfare recipients but could also lead increased competition among different types claimants. We draw on data from an online panel survey fielded in Austria during COVID-19 pandemic (2020–2022) study individual preferences for financially supporting both short-time and unemployed. find that individuals prefer...
What happens to foreign aid when developing countries get richer?