Austrian foreign direct investment (FDI) increased quickly since 1992. The profitability of these investments did improve over the full period under consideration (1992 to 2005). In particular investments in Central and Eastern Europe became rather profitable. In 2005 total annual profits...

The study analyses the development of foreign trade of Austrian Multinational Enterprises (MNE) for the period 1992-2005. During this period MNE account for about 54% of total exports and 46% of total imports. Both shares are roughly constant over the full period. Whilst the trading sector shows...

Export quality indicators for the transition countries (by Robert Stehrer, pp. 1-3) Countries covered Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, China Topics International Trade and Competitiveness On the profitability of Austrian...

In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurde die Einkommensverteilung für die Periode 1959-2008 für Österreich analysiert. Dabei konnten aufgrund der mangelhaften Datenlage ausschließlich die Lohn- und Einkommensteuerstatistik untersucht werden. Die Entwicklung der personenbezogenen Kapitaleinkommen...

One of the specific characteristics of Austrian Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) abroad is that a large part is carried out by firms, which themselves are affiliates of foreign Multinational Enterprises (MNEs). Such investment is termed indirect FDI in order to distinguish it from direct FDI,...

In this paper we revise the empirical tests of the Ricardian model by testing properly the Ricardian hypotheses on bilateral trade flows. Our tests are based on NACE 2-digit industry aggregation of productivity and of bilateral trade flows between 21 EU member states for the period 1994-2004. We...

Primarily using data from the 2010 European Social Survey, we analyze intergenerational educational persistence in 20 European countries, studying cross-country and cross-cluster differences in intergenerational mobility; the role of gender in determining educational persistence across...

Die internationale Literatur zur langfristigen Einkommensverteilung zeigt ein nicht einheitliches Bild. Insbesondere in den angelsächsischen Ländern ist im hundertjährigen Vergleich die Einkommenskonzentration seit Ende der 1980er-Jahre deutlich gestiegen. Im Jahr 2007, unmittelbar vor...