The economic impact of cross-border work on the municipalities of residence: an example at the French–Luxembourgish border

in Wille, Christian; Nienaber, Birte (Eds.) Border Experiences in Europe. Everyday Life – Working Life – Communication – Languages (2020)

This chapter seeks to investigate whether the proximity of a border can be seen as an engine of regional development, or a disruptive element. The impacts of cross-border activity on demographic evolution ... [more ▼]

This chapter seeks to investigate whether the proximity of a border can be seen as an engine of regional development, or a disruptive element. The impacts of cross-border activity on demographic evolution but also on unemployment or economic activity at the French–Luxembourgish border will be identified. Quantitative data from the municipal level (French census for 2014) will be used, with a special focus on the French border municipality of Longwy (formerly one of the main steel-producing areas in France). [less ▲]

Marché du travail transfrontalier Négocier avec les frontières à l’heure de la crise sanitaire COVID-19

in Mein, Georg; Pause, Johannes (Eds.) Self and Society in the Corona Crisis. Perspectives from the Humanities nad Social Sciences (2020)

The health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has imposed significant adjustments to the cross-border labour market in the Greater SaarLorLux cross-border area. Public authorities have taken measures ... [more ▼]

The health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has imposed significant adjustments to the cross-border labour market in the Greater SaarLorLux cross-border area. Public authorities have taken measures to prevent the spread of the disease that have restricted travel to the strict minimum. In contrast, the efficiency of public health services requires proximity. These measures have rapidly imposed themselves on public actors, companies and individuals. They directly question the functioning of a cross-border labour market structured by cross-border mobility. National authorities have adapted the function of the border to maintain economic activities as much as possible and to provide for meeting health needs. After recalling the characteristics of the labour market in the Greater Region, this article illustrates how the open border has been transformed into a filter to limit border crossings strictly. Then, this paper shows how by allowing commuters to conduct teleworking "until further notice", public decision-makers have derogated from bilateral tax treaties. The tax border is temporarily "moved" to the employee's home. Similarly, by allowing cross-border commuters employed in Luxembourg to access partial unemployment, Luxembourg has extended its social protection beyond its borders. This crisis, rich in lessons, shows the vulnerability of border areas in times of crisis. In exceptional circumstances, national authorities are prompt to renegotiate the functions of the border through bilateral decisions. This, however, can be to the detriment of a holistic approach reflecting the complexity of cross-border interdependence spread across four countries. At the forefront of European integration, border areas constantly challenge it and are challenged by it. [less ▲]

Le travail frontalier comme ressource pour les territoires

Article for general public (2019)

Travailler dans un pays et résider dans un autre pays concerne 2 millions de travailleurs au sein de l’Union Européenne (CGET, 2017). Ce nombre a plus que triplé depuis 1999. A elle seule, la Grande ... [more ▼]

Travailler dans un pays et résider dans un autre pays concerne 2 millions de travailleurs au sein de l’Union Européenne (CGET, 2017). Ce nombre a plus que triplé depuis 1999. A elle seule, la Grande Région SaarLorLux, totalise près de 240 000 travailleurs frontaliers (OIE, 2019). [less ▲]

LES IMPACTS ECONOMIQUES ET TERRITORIAUX DU TRAVAIL FRON-TALIER SUR LES TERRITOIRES DE RESIDENCE : L’exemple du bassin de Longwy

E-print/Working paper (2019)

This article questions the impacts of cross-border worker mobility on the economic and social devel-opment of their place of residence. We hypothesize that cross-border mobility produces resources for the ... [more ▼]

This article questions the impacts of cross-border worker mobility on the economic and social devel-opment of their place of residence. We hypothesize that cross-border mobility produces resources for the worker, the enterprise and the territory, but it can also be a source of constraints. After a geo-graphical framework of the study, this article analyses the main positive territorial impacts of cross-border mobility. It shows that they contribute to the territorial dynamism of these border regions by attracting new sociological profiles of workers, by revitalizing rural territories (through housing), by limiting the increase of local unemployment and by encouraging a new form of in-place economy. Fi-nally, the paper also shows how such mobility can impede the own development of these border terri-tories, such as via a deeper local social stratification and a lack of highly qualified manpower. [less ▲]

La mobilité transfrontalière des travailleurs est-elle une ressource pour la Grande Région?

Report (2018)

La Grande Région est l’un des espaces transfrontaliers les plus concernés par les flux de travail frontalier. Face aux nombreux défis (économiques, démographiques, environnementaux, etc.) auxquels elle se ... [more ▼]

La Grande Région est l’un des espaces transfrontaliers les plus concernés par les flux de travail frontalier. Face aux nombreux défis (économiques, démographiques, environnementaux, etc.) auxquels elle se trouve confrontée, peut-on considérer la mobilité transfrontalière comme une ressource pour les territoires frontaliers ? Telle était la question de départ posée aux différents spécialistes présents lors du Forum Grande Région du 7 juin 2018. Cette table ronde a réuni près de 70 participants issus du monde politique, économique, universitaire, mais également des citoyens intéressés par ces questions. Elle a donné lieu à de nombreux échanges et débats, révélant d’intéressantes pistes de recherche futures. [less ▲]

Déterminants individuels et territoriaux des navettes internes ou transfrontalières des actifs résidant en France

in Espace, Populations, Sociétés (2018), 2017(3), 1-30

This article focuses on the individual and territorial determinants of cross-border commuting from France to its neighbouring countries. We seek to identify whether cross-border commuting is a distinct ... [more ▼]

This article focuses on the individual and territorial determinants of cross-border commuting from France to its neighbouring countries. We seek to identify whether cross-border commuting is a distinct form of commuting, especially whether it differs for an active resident from commuting outside his/her reference functional urban area. We use individual data from the 2013 census and characterize the territory at the municipal scale in order to capture the relative polarisation of residential places within the national urban system. From our multinomial logistic models applied to the whole France or the border fringe, we find that gender, age, education, type and sector of activity, as well as the location of the commune with respect to employment poles in France, explain similarly the commute of active individuals towards another urban area in France and across the border. However, the effect is more intensive for cross-border commuting. After controlling the impact of the different neighbouring countries, we still clearly identify a different behaviour from elastic migrants in border areas and an effect of the distance to the border and of the job density on the cross-border commutes. [less ▲]

Le travail frontalier au Luxembourg . Développement, enjeux et perspectives

Conference given outside the academic context (2017)

Le travail frontalier au Luxembourg a connu <br />un fort développement ces trois dernières <br />décennies, avec une multiplication des effectifs <br />par dix. En janvier 2017, environ 180 000 <br ... [more ▼]

Le travail frontalier au Luxembourg a connu <br />un fort développement ces trois dernières <br />décennies, avec une multiplication des effectifs <br />par dix. En janvier 2017, environ 180 000 <br />salariés frontaliers travaillent au Grand- <br />Duché de Luxembourg (IGSS). Ces femmes et <br />ces hommes constituent un important facteur <br />de développement économique et social pour <br />les territoires de la Grande Région. <br />Cette conférence vise à répondre à des questions <br />essentielles : <br />• Quelles sont les caractéristiques socioéconomiques <br />du travail frontalier ? <br />• Qui sont ces travailleurs mobiles qui vivent <br />l’Europe au quotidien ? <br />• Quelle est leur implication dans la vie économique <br />et sociale locale (dans la région <br />de travail comme celle de résidence) ? <br />• Quelles sont les conséquences de la forte <br />hausse de leur nombre pour les territoires <br />frontaliers du Luxembourg ? [less ▲]

L'intérim transfrontalier : les marges de l'emploi aux marges des territoires

in Revue Française de Socio-Economie (2016), 17(2nd semestre), 43-63

Within the Greater Region Saar-Lor-Lux (including one state: Luxembourg, and four regions: Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany, Wallonia in Belgium and Lorraine in France), there is an increase ... [more ▼]

Within the Greater Region Saar-Lor-Lux (including one state: Luxembourg, and four regions: Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany, Wallonia in Belgium and Lorraine in France), there is an increase in the number of cross-border workers as well as a diversification of this form of employment, including temporary work. Temporary work agencies now constitute new employment intermediaries inside this cross-border area. They favour the development of specific forms of employment and take advantage of the differences in social and fiscal rules between countries. [less ▲]

Cross-border labour in the Greater Region Saar-Lor-Lux : evolutions and effects on the status of the workers and on regional economic and social development

in Mrozowicki, Adam; Kolasinska, Elzbieta; Rog-Ilnicka, Joanna (Eds.) Social boundaries and meanings of work in the 21st-century capitalism (2015)

The Greater Region Saar-Lor-Lux is a geographic space constituted by two German border regions (Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate), one French (Lorraine), one Belgian border region (Wallonia) and a small ... [more ▼]

The Greater Region Saar-Lor-Lux is a geographic space constituted by two German border regions (Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate), one French (Lorraine), one Belgian border region (Wallonia) and a small country (Luxembourg). In this area situated in the centre of the European Union, new dynamics of employment are observed especially with the development of cross-border labour: more and more people live and work in two different countries. Cross-border labour and its different forms have positive and negative effects on the composition of regional labour markets and more generally on the economic and social development of these different border regions. [less ▲]

Le travail frontalier comme ressource territoriale régulée par la coopération transfrontalière

Scientific Conference (2015, July 09)

Cette communication s’interroge sur le lien emploi frontalier - formation professionnelle au sein de la Grande Région SaarLorLux, espace transfrontalier qui concentre le quart des flux de travailleurs ... [more ▼]

Cette communication s’interroge sur le lien emploi frontalier - formation professionnelle au sein de la Grande Région SaarLorLux, espace transfrontalier qui concentre le quart des flux de travailleurs frontaliers de l’ensemble de l’Union européenne (UE27). Les emplois frontaliers et la formation professionnelle sont d’importants enjeux territoriaux, du fait de l’interconnexion croissante des marchés régionaux du travail. Le travail frontalier est un construit social à travers un processus de normalisation réglementaire (règlements européens), conventionnelle (accords bilatéraux sur les questions fiscales) et de généralisation de pratiques transfrontalières. Les travailleurs frontaliers sont abordés en tant que ressource territoriale, des ressources humaines partagées et régulées par la coopération transfrontalière, à travers des accords portant sur différentes dimensions dont celle, devenue cruciale, de formation professionnelle. [less ▲]