Labour Market Monitor 2020

The report is an update of a set of labour market indices first developed and tested in 2010 in collaboration with experts of the Vienna Chamber of Labour (AK). The Austrian labour market is examined relative to the other 27 EU countries (including UK; reference year 2019) according to the following key dimensions: overall labour market performance, participation of different groups of people, exclusion risks on the labour market, distribution of earnings and redistribution by the welfare state. The Austrian labour market performed better than the average of the EU countries in four of the five dimensions, in two dimensions Austria reaches a top position. Denmark is among the leaders in all five dimensions. The bottom field mainly consists of Southern European or new member countries.