The issue studied was which regions can expect to enjoy net benefits and in which regions disadvantages will outweigh advantages. The assessment was made on the basis of the sectoral structure and endowment with location factors. In terms of sectoral structure, the analysis was based on the...

Whenever the business cycle approaches its trough and challenges for firms become particularly severe the regional pattern of competitive strength and need for adjustment shows up clearly. Upper Austria, Salzburg and the Tyrol fare much better than Styria, Carinthia and Vorarlberg. The Eastern...

The intensification of bilateral relationships with the new democracies of Eastern Central Europe following the fall of the Iron Curtain has tended to work against the traditional west-east divide in Austrian regional growth patterns. However, a basic change in location advantages in Austria did...

Vienna is losing out as a venue of physical goods production. Between 1971 and 1994, the secondary sector (including SMEs, energy utilities and the construction industry) was bled of some 114,000 jobs, or 37 percent of the base year. Industrial employment in the more narrow sense of the term was...

With the economy being characterized by a slump in exports, private consumption and the construction sector contributed the most to economic growth, expecially in Vienna and the Burgenland. As the boom in demand that was triggered by the reunification of Germany levelled off manufacturing in...

The economic situation in 2005 lost some of its momentum in the first half of the year, but in the second half the Austrian economy saw dynamic development. The gross value added (without agriculture and forestry) rose slightly more than 2 percent in 2005. The weakening of export growth...