Diese Arbeit besteht aus zwei Teilen: der theoretische Teil analysiert die Grundstruktur, den Strukturwandel und die strukturelle Entwicklung und Ursachen in der Möbelbranche. Im Detail wird der österreichische Möbelmarkt wie auch die internationale Marktentwicklung anhand zweier Beispiele...

"In addition to government policies concerning the disabled and those funded by the social insurance authorities, in a considerable number of industrial countries there are special legal systems for the securing and promotion of occupational integration, which are based on the legal obligation...

This paper considers the education of the labour force based on an analysis of trends in and the relationships between job polarization and skills mismatch. Both job polarization and skills mismatch have become topics of increasing interest, but relationships between the two have been relatively...

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...

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 characteristics - also in regional development. The...