Qualified Personnel Monitoring 2009: Company Survey 2009

In the Interreg III A project LAMO I and LAMO II, the Paul Lazarsfeld Society, together with other experts, developed a set of monitoring instruments that provided data on changes in the labour market - with particular regard to the potential of cross-border commuters and migrant workers. These data were intended to serve as a information basis and argumentation for political decision-makers and for the economy. The project "Fachkräftemonitoring" (FAMO) represents a further development and focuses in particular on the topic of skilled labour demand in Vienna and in western Slovakia (Bratislava, Trnava). The aim of FAMO, in addition to a comprehensive presentation of the economic development in the Austrian-Slovak CENTROPE region, is to obtain information on the demand for personnel (especially skilled workers) in the research region, on the basis of a large company survey and to sound out the prevailing working conditions. The FAMO company survey also interrogates realised or intended internationalization steps and cooperation between Austrian companies and companies in Western Slovakia. In addition, a survey of the employable population analysed the willingness of people to work abroad and their qualifications. Prospect Unternehmensberatung conducted qualitative interviews with company representatives in order to gain a deeper insight into the demand for skilled workers in selected industry segments. Furthermore, experts from the following areas were interviewed: regional actors from the labour market and economy as well as local decision-makers in the study regions (public federal and regional administration, labour market service, chamber of commerce, trade unions, chambers of labour, industrialists association) as well as regional managers, scientists and mayors of municipalities/cities close to the border: Sociodemographic questions, qualifications and knowledge, professional situation, wage expectations, professional and spatial mobility, experience with working abroad, experience with internal commuting, willingness and motivation to work or emigrate abroad. New questions in FAMO: Attitude towards tax evasion and undeclared work (irregular sector)