How COVID-driven research attention on cross-border commuting benefits EU cross-border labor policy recommendations - A review
Abstract
This paper aims to investigate how COVID-driven research on cross-border commuting benefits EU cross-border labor policy recommendations. For this purpose, a systematic literature review with an in-depth qualitative analysis of selected articles is performed.
Overall, three major cat-egories of recommendations were revealed. Besides recommendations on contagion policies and the centrality of decision-making, recommendations on solving the social impact of the pan-demic on the reputation of cross-border commuters are deductible.
The three categories are unified by the general need for regional, cross-border approaches in decision-making. 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 not only ben-efit EU labor policy, but cross-border commuters automatically.