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Dr. Walter Hyll is a Senior Economist at Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung.
He has been working for Research Group “Labor Market, Income and Social Security” since 2019.
In his main research, he investigates employment and income careers and evaluates labor market-related policies based on individual data.
He explores how risk preferences, income inequality, and intergroup comparisons affect behavior, as well as the implications of financial literacy for decision-making at the level of individual agents.
He was a researcher at the Unit Analysis of Statistics Austria, and a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Structural Change and Productivity at the IWH.
Before that, he worked at the University of Klagenfurt, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Carinthia, the University of Graz, and WIFO.
Walter was a lecturer for economic courses at different levels for various universities.
He is the author of numerous journal publications, such as Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and Journal of Labor Economics.
Walter Hyll studied at the University of Graz and received his doctoral degree under Oded Stark at the University of Klagenfurt.
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Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
 Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Investment ManagersFinance Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (WIFO) is an independent investment research firm headquartered in Vienna, Austria. The firm was founded in 1927 by Friedrich August von Hayek and Ludwig von Mises. WIFO provides applied empirical economic research in Austria with a strong commitment at the European level. The mission of the firm is to build a bridge between academic basic research and economic policy application in order to contribute to solving socio-economic challenges and to create a factual basis for decisions in business and society. Their bridging function also goes hand in hand with an intermediary role between economic policy institutions, university institutions and advisory and consulting companies. WIFO is the point of contact for international organizations (EU, OECD and IMF) and rating agencies with regard to national economic development and the assessment of economic policy measures. | Economist | 01/01/2019 |
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Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Investment ManagersFinance Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (WIFO) is an independent investment research firm headquartered in Vienna, Austria. The firm was founded in 1927 by Friedrich August von Hayek and Ludwig von Mises. WIFO provides applied empirical economic research in Austria with a strong commitment at the European level. The mission of the firm is to build a bridge between academic basic research and economic policy application in order to contribute to solving socio-economic challenges and to create a factual basis for decisions in business and society. Their bridging function also goes hand in hand with an intermediary role between economic policy institutions, university institutions and advisory and consulting companies. WIFO is the point of contact for international organizations (EU, OECD and IMF) and rating agencies with regard to national economic development and the assessment of economic policy measures. | Finance |
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