This publication tells the story of how the lives of the people and communities in border regions are still being affected today by national borders, and what kind of obstacles they are facing in their everyday professional or private lives.

This study analyses sickness absence in selected European countries. We suggested and applied three sick‑leave measures: global sickness absence rate, frequency rate, and absolute crude absence rate. To calculate the rates, open access data from Eurostat, the OECD, and the WHO were used. On...