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...