Evaluation of the Pact for Employment and Qualification in Upper Austria

The report contains a description of the Upper Austrian Pact for Employment and Qualification and its interaction with other relevant strategies in Upper Austria. The development of the Upper Austrian labour market since the economic crisis in 2009 is compared to European regions as well as the Austrian Länder. Further the expected effects of this pact's measures are assessed at the hand of a survey of the international national and regional evaluation literature. Finally, two active labour market policies are evaluated and the macroeconomic effects of the budgeted expenditures of the pact are simulated.