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Cross-border
economic
development
Project factsheets
Framework agreement on cooperation regarding French-German job-seeker placement
Project factsheet
Framework agreement on
cooperation regarding French-
German job-seeker placement
Border
France-Germany
Territory
Upper Rhine
Date of signature
26 February 2013
Partners
Pôle Emploi Alsace, Agentur für Arbeit Baden-Württemberg; Pôle Emploi Lorraine, Agentur für Arbeit
Saarland-Rheinland-Pfalz
Objective
Cross-border placement of job-seekers
Main activity
Increasing personalised monitoring and support to help job-seekers find work via local cooperation
agreements between public employment services
What is the context?
The French-German border in the Upper Rhine separates two labour
markets with contrasting characteristics.
While unemployment in Alsace stands at 9.5%, with higher rates in
the employment areas of Strasbourg and Mulhouse (10.6% and 11.6%
respectively), the Land of Baden-Württemberg enjoys a situation of
near full employment, with an unemployment rate of 4%.
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Nearly 47,000 French residents
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thus cross the French-German
border every day to go and work in Germany
, where the demand
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Figures for the first quarter of 2013; source: ADEUS.
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Figures for Alsace and Lorraine; source: Framework agreement for cooperation regarding
French-German job-seeker placement.
Franco-German job-seeker placement service, Strasbourg-Ortenau