Commuting Between Border Regions in The Netherlands, Germany and Belgium:An Explanatory Model

Border regions are often not very well connected to the national urban and economic centres and hence perform less well in terms of GDP per capita and unemployment. Cross-border commuting might be a way to improve the economic performance of border regions. This study explores the impact of a set of socio-economic, infrastructural or cultural explanatory variables that drive cross-border commuting in the Dutch-German-Belgium border regions for all outgoing commuters but also by gender, education and age. We found that cross-border commuting is a small-scale phenomenon, but the flows largely res... Mehr ...