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The economic issue is a far from negligible

It is a little more than 17 hours, at Altenstadt, a district of Wissembourg, in the Bas-Rhin. From the Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg, dozens of vehicles registered 67, occupied by their single driver, advance step in a long procession. A similar parade takes place at the same time on the road from Luxembourg to Thionville. Station of Monaco, hundreds of bureaucrats or employees of French trade are preparing to take the train to return to their homes of Menton and Nice, after a day of hard work in the Principality. As many facets of a same reality: the cross-border work. Something solid and yet not apprehended, not because his burst: a good twenty departments play labour providers and host countries are new. But diversity is also legal. The bilateral agreements signed by the France with neighbouring States train for the relevant employees of sensitive differences in social and tax regime. The Switzerland and Monaco, major providers of jobs, are not part of the European Union, where a minimum of common standards have been introduced as early as 1971. Moreover, in decentralized as the Germany or the Switzerland countries, regulation varies a land or from one canton to another. The situation is even more bushy among border residents on the French side, some are nationals of the country where they are going to work every day, or even have dual citizenship, or are citizens of a third State.

Lorraine first

If there is no official census, an observation is required: border employment is experiencing a rapid expansion. He took his rise at the end of the 1960s, then feeding the development of fleet, of the valuation of the currencies of neighboring countries against the franc and the emergence of endemic unemployment in France. Even better, it is installed that the national economy remained these past years behind, compared with most of her neighbours. The figures are spectacular. The strength of the French border in the canton of Geneva has increased tenfold in thirty years. In the Luxembourg passed 4,000 in the early 1970s to about 70,000 today. Similarly, 32,000 inhabitants of Alpes-Maritimes, is two times more than twenty years ago, active converge daily to the Principality of Monaco, they represent three quarters of the population.

For the whole of France, the number of these migrants of daily life revolves around 300,000. The Switzerland, the Luxembourg, the Germany and the Belgium in welcome alone nearly nine-tenths. Lorraine, strong close of border 100,000, down the Alsace at the forefront of the caregivers regions. The Department of Haute-Savoie is also in advanced, with more than 45,000 residents occupied Switzerland. The economic issue is a far from negligible. These workers spend on their place of residence most of the affected foreign payments almost always higher than they would perceive in the hexagon. If more than 10 billion euros that so swell every year HABs GDP estimated with caution, their net remuneration rises, because including the generosity of the Swiss companies and Luxembourg, to 3,000 euros per month, or once and a half the average salary of France assets are. As to the impact on the labour market, it is also significant: If the border were deprived of the day in the wake of their employment, the unemployment rate would increase suddenly a point.