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EU labor policy recommendations drawn from COVID‐driven research attention on cross‐border commuting – A review

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This paper aims to investigate which EU cross‐border labor policy recommendations can be drawn from COVID‐driven research attention. For this purpose, a systematic literature review with an in‐depth qualitative analysis of selected articles was performed. Overall, three major categories of recommendations were revealed. Besides recommendations on contagion policy and the centrality of decision‐making, recommendations on solving the social impact of the pandemic on the reputation of cross‐border commuters can be deduced. The three categories are unified by the need for more regional but cross‐border approaches in decision‐making and research in general. Seeing the EU rather more as a constellation of various economic and social regions, including cross‐border communities, than a total of countries divided by national borders, would benefit EU labor policy and cross‐border commuters automatically – not only in times of crises. Exploiting new spatial research methods to analyze (labor) mobility within border regions enables novel contributions to the state of research. El objetivo de este artículo es investigar qué recomendaciones sobre las políticas laborales transfronterizas de la UE pueden extraerse de la atención prestada por la investigación a COVID. Para ello, se realizó una revisión sistemática de la literatura con un análisis cualitativo en profundidad de los artículos seleccionados. En conjunto, aparecieron tres grandes categorías de recomendaciones. Además de las recomendaciones sobre la política de contagio y la importancia de la toma de decisiones, se extrajeron recomendaciones para resolver el impacto social de la pandemia en la reputación de los viajeros transfronterizos. Las tres categorías están vinculadas por la necesidad de más enfoques regionales pero transfronterizos en la toma de decisiones y la investigación en general. Entender la UE más como una constelación de una serie de regiones económicas y sociales, entre ellas las comunidades transfronterizas, en vez de un número de países divididos por fronteras nacionales, beneficiaría automáticamente a la política laboral de la UE y a los trabajadores transfronterizos, no sólo en tiempos de crisis. La explotación de nuevos métodos de investigación espacial para analizar la movilidad (laboral) dentro de las regiones fronterizas permite realizar aportaciones novedosas al avance de la investigación. 本稿では、EUの国境を越えた労働政策の提言のうち、どれが新型コロナウイルス関連の研究上の注目課題から引き出すことができるかを検討する。この目的のために、システマティック・レビューを実施し、一部の論文には詳細な定性的分析も実施した。概して、推奨事項には主要な3つのカテゴリーがあることが明らかになった。感染政策及び意思決定における中央集権性に関する勧告の他に、国境を越えた通勤者の評判に対するパンデミックの社会的影響を解決するための勧告を導き出すことができる。この3つのカテゴリーは、意思決定や研究全般において、地域的ではあるが国境を越えたアプローチが必要であるため、1つにまとめられている。EUを、国境で分けられた国の集合体ではなく、国境を越えたコミュニティを包括した様々な経済的・社会的地域の集合体と見る方が、危機の際に限らず、EUの労働政策と国境を越えた通勤者の利益となることは当然であるといえる。国境地域内の (労働力の)移動性を分析するための新たな空間的研究手法を活用することで、研究に新しい貢献がもたらされる。

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  • Johanna Katharina Trager, 2023. "EU labor policy recommendations drawn from COVID‐driven research attention on cross‐border commuting – A review," Regional Science Policy & Practice, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 15(3), pages 659-681, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:rgscpp:v:15:y:2023:i:3:p:659-681
    DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12597
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