Text Biffl, Gudrun (Donau-Universität Krems) Edition Donau‐Universität Krems CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Migration 2021-01-01 The positive economic development which Austria experienced from 2013 until 2019 came to an abrupt halt in 2020 as a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic; the economic lockdown in March 2020 and again in December 2020 led to a massive decline in GDP growth. Economic growth had peaked in 2017 reaching a real GDP growth rate of 2.5%. After that growth slowed down to 1.4% in 2019 (after 2.4% in 2018). It is expected that GDP growth will decline by 7.3% in 2020 and recover only slowly in 2021 to 3.9%. (Forecast by the Austrian National Bank, 11 December 2020)1 eng application/pdf ISBN: 978-3-903150-77-5 https://door.donau-uni.ac.at/o:987 Migration and Labour Integration in Austria. SOPEMI Report on Labour Migration Austria 2019-20: Report of the Austrian SOPEMI correspondent to the OECD.