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Dr. Peter Huber is a Senior Economist at Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung.
He has been working in the Research Group “Structural Change and Regional Development” since 1998.
From 2012 to 2014 he was Deputy Director for marketing and public relations.
He is elected member of the Committee for Regional Theory and Policy of the Association for Social Policy and a member of Vilnius University.
As the lead partner or committee member, he also helped to manage numerous international and national research projects (Framework Programmes 5 and 7, Interreg).
His research deals with migration, labor markets, and regional development.
These are also topics on which he has published in renowned journals such as the European Economic Review, Regional Studies, and the Journal of Regional Science.
He has a lively interest in policy-relevant research, advising the Commission's DG's EMPL and GROW, the German Federal Ministry of Labor, the Austrian Ministries of Social Affairs and of Foreign Affairs, and the provincial governments of Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Styria, and Tyrol.
He is currently researching the determinants of integration of migrants into Austrian society and the regional consequences of ethnic cleansing.
During his career, he taught at the WU Vienna as well as at the Universities of Innsbruck and Salzburg and studied, taught, and researched in Berlin, Olomouc, Almaty, and Urbana-Champaign.
From 2010 to 2019 he was a lecturer at Mendel University, Brno, and from 2015 to 2017 member of the scientific advisory board of the Upper Austrian Future Academy.
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Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
 Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Investment ManagersFinance Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (WIFO) is an independent investment research firm headquartered in Vienna, Austria. The firm was founded in 1927 by Friedrich August von Hayek and Ludwig von Mises. WIFO provides applied empirical economic research in Austria with a strong commitment at the European level. The mission of the firm is to build a bridge between academic basic research and economic policy application in order to contribute to solving socio-economic challenges and to create a factual basis for decisions in business and society. Their bridging function also goes hand in hand with an intermediary role between economic policy institutions, university institutions and advisory and consulting companies. WIFO is the point of contact for international organizations (EU, OECD and IMF) and rating agencies with regard to national economic development and the assessment of economic policy measures. | Economist | 1997-12-31 |
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Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Investment ManagersFinance Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (WIFO) is an independent investment research firm headquartered in Vienna, Austria. The firm was founded in 1927 by Friedrich August von Hayek and Ludwig von Mises. WIFO provides applied empirical economic research in Austria with a strong commitment at the European level. The mission of the firm is to build a bridge between academic basic research and economic policy application in order to contribute to solving socio-economic challenges and to create a factual basis for decisions in business and society. Their bridging function also goes hand in hand with an intermediary role between economic policy institutions, university institutions and advisory and consulting companies. WIFO is the point of contact for international organizations (EU, OECD and IMF) and rating agencies with regard to national economic development and the assessment of economic policy measures. | Finance |
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