H<sc>uber</sc> P. and N<sc>owotny</sc> K. Moving across borders: who is willing to migrate or commute?, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. The willingness to commute and migrate across borders is analysed by focusing on the differences in the effects of individual characteristics on migration and commuting propensities. By...

This paper analyses the willingness to commute and migrate across borders. We focus on differences in the effects of individual characteristics on the willingness to migrate and the willingness to commute. Based on a random utility model we estimate a multinomial probit regression using...

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....

We analyse determinants of duration of stay of cross-border commuters and migrants. Theory suggests that relative deprivation affects only the intended length of stay of migrants, but not of cross-border commuters. This is corroborated by econometric evidence. Also, return migrants and commuters...

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...

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...

With exports and manufacturing gearing up again in Austria, regional differences in growth rates as they had prevailed before the crisis showed up again in 2010. Fuelled by good export rates and considering their lower level to start with Styria and Upper Austria, which had been gravely affected...

Gross value added grew at a slow rate everywhere in Austria, due to the fact that exports, the traditional drivers of growth, failed as propellant. The brightening of national and international prospects in the second half of the year helped industrial regions, gaining them a slight growth edge...

This article explores how the full liberalization of migration as a consequence of Austria's European economic area (EEA) accession in 1994 impacted on the education structure of migrants to Austria. To identify the effects of this policy change, use is made of the fact that only migrants from...