Economy Supported by Higher Retail Sales

Ewald Walterskirchen
Additional contact information
Ewald Walterskirchen: WIFO

Austrian Economic Quarterly, 2006, vol. 11, issue 1, pages 58-65

Abstract: Recent months have seen a further improvement in business and consumer sentiment. Companies intend to invest considerably more than last year. Real retail sales also picked up at the turn of the year. The modest rise in prices contributed to a strengthening of purchasing power at the beginning of 2006. While the cyclical recovery led to strong employment gains, notably in part-time jobs, unemployment growth decelerated owing to the economic re-covery and additional labour market policy measures.

Keywords: Business Cycle Report; Austria (search for similar items in EconPapers)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.wifo.ac.a ... anguage=2&language=2 Abstract (text/html)
http://www.wifo.ac.a ... SS_CYCLE_REPORT$.PDF full text (application/pdf)
Payment required

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Austrian Economic Quarterly from WIFO
Contact information at EDIRC.
Series data maintained by Ilse Schulz ().