Networks are hybrid forms between hierarchies and markets. The present article focuses on the structure of Russian business networks and their potential for integration into European business networks. In Russia, two competing types of networks can currently be identified: survival networks and...

I describe the extent and structure of cross-border commuting in the EU 27 to show that this is important only in a small number of border regions with strong linguistic, historic or institutional ties. Cross-border commuters are mostly medium skilled, male manufacturing workers, who have higher...

The literature on international migration has repeatedly emphasized that the extent and structure of migration has an important impact on the competitiveness of regions and countries. This report provides an overview of the extent and the potential effects of high-skill migration to the EU27. It...

With exports and manufacturing gearing up again in Austria, regional differences in growth rates as they had prevailed before the crisis showed up again in 2010. Fuelled by good export rates and considering their lower level to start with Styria and Upper Austria, which had been gravely affected...

Based on a structural model for initial firm size, survival and firm growth we estimate firm-specific transition probabilities between size classes of the firm size distribution. This allows an assessment of the impact of different (counterfactual) economic policy measures on intra-distribution...

Cross-border commuters from EU 15 countries have lower over- but higher under-education rates than non-commuters, for cross-border commuters from the new 12 EU member countries the opposite applies. Within-country commuters have lower over- but higher under-education rates than non-commuters in...

The CENTROPE region, spanning the Austrian Länder of Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland, the Western Hungarian administrative units of Gyor–Moson–Sopron and Vas, the Czech region of South Moravia and the Slovak self–governing regions of Bratislava and Trnava, is an important location...

This paper analyses the effects of previous enlargements of the European Union (EU) on the regional structure of production. Focusing on regional development five years before and seven years after integration, we find relatively small and heterogeneous effects. For enlargement by Greece, a...

The crisis-ridden countries of southern Europe find themselves in a situation comparable to the one of flagging regions within a country: both are members of a currency union – the euro area in the first case, and the common national currency in the second. In both cases, a key policy...

We analyze unconditional within-country convergence from 1991 to 2009 in 21 European countries. Unlike most previous studies we focus on the heterogeneity of convergence. We find that convergence processes in currency unions are extremely heterogenous, highly discontinuous and strongly...