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Actual Implications of the Current Economic Crisis for Austrian Enterprises – Results of a Company Survey

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This article is based on the results of a survey conducted among 731 Austrian companies and supplements the known macroeconomic facts about the current economic crisis with micro data. While a decline in demand was the main challenge companies faced, they also had to cope with financing problems and customers’ payment difficulties. 16% of Austrian companies reported major or even severe financing difficulties owing to the crisis, with small enterprises feeling a greater impact than large firms. Furthermore, the survey showed that the crisis caused enterprises to increasingly save on wage costs. Here, companies hit hard by the crisis cut costs primarily through layoffs, followed by a reduction in working hours. Although base wages were cut more frequently than in economically calm times, this measure continued to be the exception rather than the rule even during the crisis, which indicates the existence of nominal wage rigidities in Austria.

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  • Claudia Kwapil, 2009. "Actual Implications of the Current Economic Crisis for Austrian Enterprises – Results of a Company Survey," Monetary Policy & the Economy, Oesterreichische Nationalbank (Austrian Central Bank), issue 4, pages 98-110.
    • Handle: RePEc:onb:oenbmp:y:2009:i:4:b:5
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    1. Povilas Lastauskas, 2022. "Lockdown, employment adjustment, and financial frictions," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 58(2), pages 919-942, February.

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    Keywords

    wage rigidities; demand shock; survey data;
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    JEL classification:

    • C25 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions; Probabilities
    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • J30 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - General

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