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Abstract: „Seit über 20 Jahren sammelt und analysiert die Interregionale Arbeitsmarktbeobachtungsstelle (IBA·OIE) im Auftrag der politischen Verantwortlichen der Großregion vergleichbare und interpretierbare Daten über den Arbeitsmarkt auf dem Gebiet der Großregion und liefert damit die Grundlage für struktur- und arbeitsmarktpolitische Entscheidungen in der Großregion. Durch die lange und kontinuierliche Beobachtung gelingt es, ein deutliches Bild der Pendlerbewegungen und ihrer Profile im Kooperationsraum der Großregion zu zeichnen und diese engen Verflechtungen sichtbar zu machen. Allerdings werden auch die Unterschiede deutlich, die kulturell bedingt, aber auch durch die heterogenen Wirtschaftsstrukturen der Teilregionen gewachsen sind. Als Grundlage dienen zunächst die Daten der europäischen Statistikbehörde Eurostat, die in harmonisierter Form vorliegen und dadurch im grenzüberschreitenden Kontext leicht vergleichbar sind. Für die detaillierteren Indikatoren auf der Ebene der Großregion werden zudem die Daten der jeweiligen statistischen Ämter und anderer Datenproduzenten aus den Teilregionen herangezogen. Aufgrund unterschiedlicher Hintergründe und Erhebungsmethoden bedürfen die Zahlen einer deutlichen Kontextualisierung und meist einer Harmonisierung. Insbesondere die Daten zu den Grenzgängerströmen stammen aus unterschiedlichen Datenquellen, die einer Harmonisierung auf großregionaler Ebene bedürfen.“

Abstract: „This article explores the dynamics of atypical cross-border workers in the Greater Region, that is to say, those who reside in a neighbouring country while maintaining employment in Luxembourg. Before highlighting the housing access inequalities that this residential dynamic entails, the analysis examines housing policies in Belgium, France, Germany and Luxembourg to better understand the disparities that intensify pressure on regional housing markets. Recent and historical data on the profiles of atypical cross-border workers are presented, along with testimonies from former residents of Luxembourg who have left the country. The study sheds light on how border housing markets respond to this growing demand, sometimes to the detriment of long-standing residents. It concludes by emphasising the need for a cross-border housing observatory to co-ordinate data collection and assess emerging inequalities, including land pressures and residential exclusion in border areas, calling for more harmonised governance to address these challenges.“

Abstract: „Within the European Union, the Greater Region Saar-Lor-Lux is the region most impacted by cross-border work. Luxembourg is attracting an increasing number of workers from neighboring countries, mainly from France. This article examines how the practice of cross-border work has evolved over the last sixty years and what the territorial issues are. Rarely taken into account over a long period, the historical dimension is indeed necessary to understand the roots of the phenomenon, its structuring and diversification. The degree of permeability of borders and the reasons for crossing them have changed over time. This analysis provides an overview of cross-border work, focusing on Luxembourg as the main country of employment and Lorraine as the main place of residence for cross-border workers. Contextual factors and different processes - historical, economic, social and political - are important and have encouraged the development of cross-border work in the Greater Region: they have contributed to its institutionalization and to the structuring of the phenomenon. Finally, borders are questioned in the light of emerging territorial challenges, such as labour shortages, the ageing of the population and the resulting tensions pertaining to cross-border work.“

Abstract: „With its 267,300 cross-border workers in 2022, the Greater Region of SaarLorLux is often presented as a model of European integration. Borders are becoming less and less perceptible, and are disappearing for commuters travelling from one country to another. However, the Covid-19 pandemic has shown the reappearance of borders that were thought to have been forgotten. It has to be said that many border-related issues have come to the fore in recent years, all the more so because of the many challenges and tensions as well as the growing number of cross-border workers. The question of inequalities is central in this context of a cross-border labour market with strongly interwoven components.“

Abstract: „During and immediately after the First World War the Belgian government developed plans to annex parts of the Netherlands after the war, such as the province of Limburg. How did industrialists in the capital Maastricht respond to these Belgium goals? In this article, I explore the perspectives of an industrialist, a state detective and an economist in this matter. The industrialist was a fierce opponent of annexation, while the state detective was convinced that annexionists, those who were in favour of annexation, should mainly be found among major industrialists. The economist, on the other hand, did not rule out the possibility that some of Maastricht’s traders and industrialists would prefer a connection with Belgium. How did they come to these conclusions and to what extent did their considerations and other sources provide an answer to the research question of this article? Taking both gossip and facts into account, we may conclude that indeed there could have been traders and industrialists who supported the Belgian aspirations and preferred to join Belgium. However, the general claim that, in Maastricht especially, major industrialists were in favour of annexation lacks any factual evidence.“

Abstract: „This article investigates the capacities of children to participate actively in their lives in the Belgian-German borderlands in the time period between World War I and World War II. The article interprets a body of historical sources that has hitherto been left unexplored – namely, borderland child ego documents – with the help of insights from child studies and border studies. These ego documents unfold as borderland child heterotopias. Borderland child heterotopias include material places and creative linguistic loci established by or for those considered in crisis in relation to the rest of society based on their age within or outside child spaces of modernity. The borderland child heterotopias offer a unique gateway to borderland children’s past imaginations for a better world.“

Inhaltstext: „À partir d’une base conceptuelle s’appuyant sur la théorie du comportement planifié développée par Bamberg et Schmidt, l’objectif de cet article est d’estimer, en tant que facteur latent, l’utilité du choix des différents moyens de transport des frontaliers luxembourgeois lors de leurs déplacements domicile-travail, en tenant compte de leurs pratiques et de leurs représentations, tout en ajoutant leur satisfaction relative à ces déplacements. En exploitant une enquête effectuée en 2010-2011, plusieurs modèles d’équations structurales ont été élaborées en prenant en considération l’ensemble de ces éléments. Les résultats principaux du modèle retenu montrent une meilleure estimation du choix modal grâce à la prise en compte de la satisfaction, qui reflète le caractère routinier des trajets quotidiens. Dans notre cas d’étude, le modèle permet également de saisir que les attitudes liées aux moyens de transport ont un meilleur pouvoir explicatif que les attitudes pro-environnementales.“

Inhaltstext: „Au Luxembourg, 44.4% de la main-d’œuvre salariée réside de l’autre côté des frontières et vient des trois pays voisins. Le travail frontalier a des origines anciennes. C’est un phénomène durable, en forte croissance et ancré dans les économies locales. Cette contribution insiste sur l’importance des éléments de contexte dans lesquels se sont développés ces flux et présente les principales caractéristiques, mais aussi les enjeux du travail frontalier au Luxembourg, afin de permettre une mise en perspective avec la Suisse.“