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Volume 4 (2013): Issue 1 (March 2013)

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Volume 4 (2013): Issue 1 (March 2013)

The Impact of Migration Policy on Migrants’ Education Structure: Evidence from Austrian Policy Reform

Peter Huber, Julia Bock-Schappelwein
We ask how reform of migration law intended to increase the selectivity of migration (the so-called integration agreement regulation in 2003) in Austria impacted on the education structure of migrants to Austria. To identify the effects of this reform, we use the fact that it applied only to migrants from third countries and not those from EEA...
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Volume 4 (2013): Issue 1 (March 2013)

Does Globalization Affect Regional Growth? Evidence for Nuts-2 Regions in EU-27

Wolfgang Polasek, Richard Sellner
We analyze the influence of newly constructed globalization measures on regional growth for the EU-27 countries between 2001 and 2006. The spatial Chow-Lin procedure, a method constructed by the authors, was used to construct, on a NUTS-2 level, complete regional data for exports, imports and FDI inward stocks, which serve as indicators for the...
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Volume 4 (2013): Issue 1 (March 2013)

The Never-Ending Fight: Economic and Political Corruption in Hungary

Laszlo Kohalmi
Every society must pay the “price of democracy” and in this price are “calculated” the rising number of crimes and the change in their quality, and also the unique alterations of corruption, among other things. The fight against economic-political corruption is a risky question, because the hunters and the hunted, those who conduct and those who...
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Volume 4 (2013): Issue 1 (March 2013)

Effective Tax Rates in the Moravian-Silesian Region

Lenka Janickova
The aim of this work is to evaluate the effective corporate tax rate in the Moravian-Silesian Region in the Czech Republic on the basis of a backward-looking micro view. The results obtained are then compared with other methods of measuring the tax burden, especially with the corporate tax quota and effective corporate tax rate based on a backward...
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