In 2009 business in the Austrian Länder suffered a serious shakedown as a consequence of the economic crisis, which primarily hit the manufacturing sector. Länder that have a high share of manufacturing businesses and which acted as growth drivers during boom times found their gross value...

The Agreement Governing Cross-border Commuting in Burgenland, concluded by Austria and Hungary in 1998, opened the doors for an influx of some 2,400 Hungarian cross-border commuters to the labour market in Burgenland. It attracted individuals whose success on the Austrian labour market surpassed...

In the period from the enlargement of the European Union to the current economic crisis the CENTROPE region was characterised by a consistently high growth and a clearly improving situation on the labour market. From the economic point of view, however, the region is still poorly integrated....

Austria's economy recorded a robust upswing in 2006, with real gross domestic product increasing by 3.2 percent. Growth drivers were exports and rising investment activity, while recent private consumer demand remained rather moderate. Although all Länder registered an upturn, these demand...

In addition to giving a boost to foreign trade and foreign direct investment, the opening of the borders to the Central and Eastern European countries has also intensified links between companies which cannot be subsumed under the strictly separate categories of market-mediated and hierarchical...

A survey of the relevant literature finds that no really satisfactory answer is yet available on the issue of how important foreign trade really is for labour market developments. European studies have (with some exceptions) arrived at the conclusion that foreign trade has little impact on...

The "Centrope – Middle European Region" was established in 2003 by representatives of the cities and regions of Vienna, Lower Austria, Burgenland, West Transdanubia, Bratislava, Western Slovakia, and South Moravia. As an institutional framework for cross-border cooperation, it is supposed to...

Estimates put the potential of migration from the CEECs to all EU countries between 41,000 and 680,000 migrants annually. It is generally agreed that these estimates are too uncertain to allow any useful assessment. Most migrants from the CEECs (77 percent) will come to Austria and Germany.

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,...

During the last economic boom period, more than half of Austria's hotels and restaurants laboured under staff shortages, and only 31 percent felt unaffected by any personnel deficit. The key factors determining recruiting problems were the growth rate and size of an operation and the share of...