FAMO – Skilled Workers Monitoring. Regular Survey of Demand and Supply of Skilled Workers in the Border Region of Eastern Austria and Slovakia. FAMO II: Migration and Commuting Potentials in Vienna and the Slovakian Border Region to Austria, 2010

Since Slovakia has acceded the EU, people in the Slovakian CENTROPE regions have become substantially less ready to be mobile. The decline to about 1.0 percent of the working-age population is due mostly to the fact that Slovakia is catching up in economic terms. Similarly, the number of individuals willing to migrate to Austria declined to some 0.5 percent of the working-age population of Bratislava and Trnava in late 2010 (some 4,000 persons when extrapolated). The migration inclination is incidentally much stronger in Vienna than in the Slovakian regions. In the Slovakian CENTROPE regions, the mobility potential is not positively or negatively correlated to the level of education, but most of those who want to work in Austria have secondary education and are thus relatively well-skilled. Nevertheless, many Slovakian workers would accept a job abroad even if the work were below their skills level.