Die Europäische Arbeitsgemeinschaft für den Mitteleuropäischen und Südosteuropäischen Raum der ARL legt mit diesem Band eine Vortragssammlung vor, die die Frage der Suburbanisierung und der unterschiedlichen Rahmenbedingungen aus Sicht der Länder Deutschland, Österreich, Slowakische und...

Many large and industrial cities all around the world suffer from out-migration. It is usually connected with a loss of qualified labour force, suboptimal use of housing and city infrastructure, decrease in investments, etc., resulting in limited development potential. This article investigates...

This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable ?quasi-experiment? for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...

Although the Visegrád Four countries often defended the same or similar positions in the European Convention, their views differed on many important issues. This situation is likely to be repeated at the upcoming Intergovernmental Conference. This basically confirms the tendency that can be...