Christine Mayrhuber is Senior Economist at WIFO and has been working in the Research Group "Labour Market, Income and Social
Security" since 1999. Her research focuses on issues of income development and income distribution, the structure and financing
of pension insurance, the redistributive effects of welfare state structures, and the new challenges for social security mechanisms
in changing labor markets and under destandardized income patterns. Her projects for national and European clients (EU Parliament)
include issues of old-age security from a gender perspective. She is a long-standing member of the Commission on Long-Term
Pension Security in Austria. After studying economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, she
was a research associate at the Institute for Advanced Studies before joining WIFO. Christine Mayrhuber is a Käthe Reichter
Award winner.