The Waldviertel is a structurally challenged region in the north-west of Lower Austria. Located in the north-east of Austria and extending from a long border with the Czech Republic as an incipient EU member in the north and the Danube river in the south, its population had been declining for...

Austria's 15-year EU membership has been a success story. It gave Austria an additional growth impulse of 0.6 percentage points and facilitated the creation of 14,000 new jobs. The main difficulty in estimating these integration effects consists in taking account of several simultaneous events:...

In some respects, regional labour markets in the accession countries are quite comparable to their counterparts in the European Union. Especially with regard to female unemployment and employment rates, indices in the future EU member countries are better than the EU average. Nevertheless,...