This paper analyses the evolution of regional unemployment rates, wages, participation rates, migration and employment of seven candidate countries in the 1990's and compares their regional labour market adjustment to a set of EU member states. I find that persistence in relative regional...

I analyse cross-border co-operation of Austrian firms with CEEC partners. Firm size, previous experience with co-operation and depth of integration with the most important partner are more important determinants of co-operation than distance to the closest potential partner. Firms with...

HUBER P. (2003) On the determinants of cross-border cooperation of Austrian firms with Central and Eastern European partners, Reg. Studies 37, 947-955. We analyse cross-border cooperation of Austrian firms with CEEC partners. Firm size, previous experience with cooperation and depth of...

Austria's economy recorded a robust upswing in 2006, with real gross domestic product increasing by 3.2 percent. Growth drivers were exports and rising investment activity, while recent private consumer demand remained rather moderate. Although all Länder registered an upturn, these demand...

In addition to giving a boost to foreign trade and foreign direct investment, the opening of the borders to the Central and Eastern European countries has also intensified links between companies which cannot be subsumed under the strictly separate categories of market-mediated and hierarchical...

A survey of the relevant literature finds that no really satisfactory answer is yet available on the issue of how important foreign trade really is for labour market developments. European studies have (with some exceptions) arrived at the conclusion that foreign trade has little impact on...

The "Centrope – Middle European Region" was established in 2003 by representatives of the cities and regions of Vienna, Lower Austria, Burgenland, West Transdanubia, Bratislava, Western Slovakia, and South Moravia. As an institutional framework for cross-border cooperation, it is supposed to...

Estimates put the potential of migration from the CEECs to all EU countries between 41,000 and 680,000 migrants annually. It is generally agreed that these estimates are too uncertain to allow any useful assessment. Most migrants from the CEECs (77 percent) will come to Austria and Germany.