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Data sources on migrants' labour market and education integration in Austria

Huber, Peter; Fink, Marian; Horvath, Gerard Thomas - 2020

As part of a larger research project, we survey existing data sets and research results on immigrants' integration success in Austria focusing on educational and labour market outcomes. We consider different registers as well as survey data available to researchers on a regular basis and compare...

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Firgo, Matthias; Mayerhofer, Peter - 2016

Empirical results on the link between growth and diversity in (un)related industries proved to be highly dependent on the specific regional and temporal context. Making use of highly disaggregated employment data at the sub-regional level, we find that higher employment growth in Austria is...

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Robots at work? Pitfalls of industry level data

Bekhtiar, Karim; Bittschi, Benjamin; Sellner, Richard - 2021

In a seminal paper Graetz and Michaels (2018) find that robots increase labor productivity and TFP, lower output prices and adversely affect the employment share of lowskilled labor. We demonstrate that these effects are heavily influenced by the sample composition and argue that focusing on...

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Active labour market policies: What works for the long-term unemployed?

Eppel, Rainer; Huemer, Ulrike; Mahringer, Helmut; … - 2024

There is still a lack of knowledge on how to effectively help the long-term unemployed into employment. We evaluate a …

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The impact of import competition from China on firm-level productivity growth in the EU

Friesenbichler, Klaus S.; Kügler, Agnes; Reinstaller, … - 2021

We revisit the impact of rising imports from China on within firm labour productivity growth in the EU. The period analysed is 2003 through 2016 and thus covers the recent increase of technology-intensive imports from China. We find that higher fractions of Chinese imports in aggregate imports...

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Firgo, Matthias - 2016

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The Role of Knowledge in Regional Development. Theoretical Considerations and the Case of the Austrian-Hungarian Border Region

Smahó, Melinda - 2010

Economic growth and development theories have neglected the role of knowledge and space for a long time. However, it is … widely accepted that knowledge has played a more and more important role in economic development, and - due to its spatial … knowledge, as well as their impact on regional development, also in regard to border regions. After some theoretical …

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The Role of Knowledge in Regional Development. Theoretical Considerations and the Case of the Austrian-Hungarian Border Region

Smahó, Melinda - Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (WIFO) - 2010

Economic growth and development theories have neglected the role of knowledge and space for a long time. However, it is … widely accepted that knowledge has played a more and more important role in economic development, and – due to its spatial … knowledge, as well as their impact on regional development, also in regard to border regions. After some theoretical …

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Catching-up in Europe: The Experiences of Portugal, Spain and Greece in the Nineties

Aiginger, Karl - 2003

southern peripheral economies, Spain, Portugal and Greece, over the long run but specifically in the nineties. It then relates …

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Did Previous EU Enlargements Change the Regional Distribution of Production? An Empirical Analysis of Three Enlargement Episodes

Huber, Peter - 2007

This paper analyses the effects of previous enlargements of the European Union on the regional structure of production. Focusing on regional development five years before and seven years after integration, we find relatively small and heterogeneous effects. For the addition of Greece a robust...

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