Cross-border working in the SAAR-LOR-LUX Greater Region

Abstract

The Greater Region has 225,000 cross-border workers. A phenomenon that is strongly on the rise, although cross-border working has been a firm fixture in the local economies for a long time. The scale of it impacts both the regions of residence and of employment in many areas (economic development, mobility, employment and training) and the challenges are many.

Questions and subjects

In the research conducted over the years, several aspects of cross-border working have been scrutinised.

• Cross-border working as a factor in regulating the labour market, allowing adjustment (quantitative and qualitative) between labour requirements and availability on either side of the border (Belkacem and Pigeron-Piroth, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2012)
• The cross-border employment market as an integrated market (Belkacem and Pigeron-Piroth, 2015)
• Diversification of cross-border worker profiles: cross-border temporary work (Belkacem and Pigeron-Piroth, 2016)
• Cross-border residential mobility and its impacts (Nienaber and Pigeron-Piroth, 2017)
• Individual and territorial determinants of cross-border working (Pigeron-Piroth et al, 2018)
• Cross-border working as resource for border territories (due to be published in 2018)
• The impacts of cross-border working on the economic development of the territories of residence (due to be published in 2018)
• A theoretical reading of cross-border mobility (due to be published in 2018)

There are still many realities of cross-border working left to explore.

• The economic, demographic, environmental and social challenges raised by its strong growth
• The organisation of cross-border labour markets
• Comparisons with other areas concerned by cross-border working

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