Between 1999 and 2004 Switzerland fully opened its border region (BR) to cross-border workers (CBW), who are foreign residents commuting to Switzerland for work. In this paper, we exploit the timing of implementation and the fact that CBW commute almost exclusively to municipalities close to the...

Welche aktuellen Diskurse sind für Grenzräume relevant? Welche Chancen und Hemmnisse ergeben sich für eine integrierte territoriale Entwicklung aufgrund der spezifischen Situation von Grenzregionen? Wie lassen sich diese gezielt nutzen bzw. überwinden? Diese Fragen standen im Zentrum der...

Political, economic, social changes that take place nowarday and refflected in the dinamiks of territirial organization of the sociaty. The Republic of Karelia has a profitable economic and geographical position in one of the federal regions, Northwest federal region of Russia . The big amount...

We study a reform that granted European cross-border workers free access to the Swiss labor market and had a stronger effect on regions close to the border. The greater availability of cross-border workers increased foreign employment substantially. Although many cross-border workers were highly...

The aim of the Border Futures Subsection was to shed light on the development of cross-border cooperation in the territory of the Hesse/Rhineland-Palatinate/ Saarland Regional Working Group and to indicate future development paths. This paper introduces the focal points of the research and the...

What current discourses are relevant for border areas? What opportunities for and obstacles to integrated territorial development arise from the specific situation of border regions? How can these be utilised or overcome in a goal-oriented way? These questions were central to the discussions of...

Welche aktuellen Diskurse sind für Grenzräume relevant? Welche Chancen und Hemmnisse ergeben sich für eine integrierte territoriale Entwicklung aufgrund der spezifischen Situation von Grenzregionen? Wie lassen sich diese gezielt nutzen bzw. überwinden? Diese Fragen standen im Zentrum der...