Publications by Type: Policy brief

2008

The Vienna drug policy 1970 to 2005

Policy brief

The study draws the success story of a regional drug policy that is based on the organisational combination of the drug-related activities of the city ("cross-sectional policy") and the professionalisation of the drug services, with the aim of social reintegration.

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Features and challenges of population ageing

Policy brief

This Policy Brief discusses population ageing and its possible implications as well as public policy responses to the challenges posed. The focus is on Europe as a region and how individual countries as well as the EU and the UNECE could deal with them.

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The labour market situation of people with disabilities in EU25

Policy brief

Many EU Member States made efforts to break down the discrimination barriers with respect to disability and to consider people with disabilities as an integral part of society and the workforce. We use the statistics of employment status as drawn from administrative registers.

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Happiness across the life cycle

Policy brief

Evidence suggests a U-shaped relationship between age and happiness, when controlling for income and other personal characteristics. However, it is not ageing as such which results in declining happiness, but rather the circumstances associated with ageing.

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Tax credit policy in the UK and its lessons for Austria

Policy brief

This Policy brief summarises the policy experience of the tax credit system in the United Kingdom, with the aim to understand better the challenges underlying the tax credit policy to be initiated in Austria.

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