Cross-border development and transnational co-operation for local employment development

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Cross-border development and transnational
co-operation for local employment development

• Case Study
• INFOBEST PALMRAIN
• Caroline Winter, LL.M., Germany

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Points of contact for transborder workers
Labour legislation
Working permits
Foreign language / other culture
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Maternity
Unemployment insurance
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Tax law
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Pension insurance
Disablement insurance
Health insurance
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3500
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25000
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34500
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Unemployment rate in the Upper Rhine Region
2000-2004
Quelle Staatssekretariat für Wirtschaft (Seco)
Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg
Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes
Economiques (INSEE), Credit Suisse, 2004.
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Brochures Information for transborder workers
Six times/year Local experts give advice to the
public on one day in one locality
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Workshop for unemployed transborder workers
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www.transinfonet.org
www.euregio-certificat.org
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Difficulties

• CH EU-External border free movement of persons
  not yet fully implemented , different
  legislation etc.
• Heavy traffic of trucks at the Swiss
  borderscientific study by the C of Co Southern
  Upper Rhine, C of Cr Basel, RV
  Hochrhein-Bodensee
• Despite a great number of transnational projects
  and existing networks there is no common
  identity and slight interest for the neighbour

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Thank you very much!