Cross-border commuters from EU 15 countries have lower over- but higher under-education rates than non-commuters, for cross-border commuters from the new 12 EU member countries the opposite applies. Within-country commuters have lower over- but higher under-education rates than non-commuters in...

I analyse the skill and age structure of commuters in 14 EU countries. Theory implies that commuters can be either more or less able than stayers, but are always less able than migrants and that they are also always older than migrants but younger than stayers. Empirically all types of commuters...

Die Studie untersucht die gesamtwirtschaftliche Entwicklung in der CENTROPE-Region, den Ländern und Regionen der EU 12 seit der EU Erweiterung 2004 bzw. 2007 und analysiert die Entwicklung von Migration und grenzüberschreitendem Pendeln in Österreich und der EU 27.

The migration literature shows that cross-border skill transfer is associated with a risk of increased job-education mismatch. This paper examines whether the problems of job-education mismatch often found among migrants also apply to cross-border commuters and compares cross-border commuters to...