Driven by growing internationalisation and high unemployment in Europe concerns about competition between regions and cities and it's consequences for economic and social standards are omnipresent. In their strive for "competitiveness" and a high position of their city in an "European City...

Empirical results on the link between growth and diversity in (un)related industries proved to be highly dependent on the specific regional and temporal context. Making use of highly disaggregated employment data at the sub-regional level, we find that higher employment growth in Austria is...

Vor dem Hintergrund der massiven wirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen der COVID-19-Pandemie und der Maßnahmen zu ihrer Eindämmung bietet das vorliegende Papier eine Abschätzung der relativen Betroffenheit der Wirtschaft der österreichischen Bundesländer in der derzeitigen Krisenphase. Die Analyse...