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Cross-border
economic
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Territory portraits: economic development on different borders
Labour market
Due to its tax regime which is highly favourable to businesses, and despite
the pressures on real estate, the Principality of Monaco constitutes an
attractive employment hub for the whole of the coastal area, with 50,792
salaried jobs in 2013
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compared with 37,800 inhabitants (of which
one third are of working age), which represents 4 jobs per working-
age person. The number of cross-border workers from France is thus
particularly high (about 34,600 in 2012, i.e. representing 75% of the
salaried jobs in Monaco), with workers also coming from Italy (about
3,700 cross-border workers). Today, transport routes are saturated
(roads and trains) and the only option open to Monaco is therefore
to attempt to improve rail links in order to attract more cross-border
workers and further develop economic activity.
As the interactions in terms of labour are less on other parts of the
border (in comparison to other French borders), the importance of
offering specifically cross-border training is not so great.
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Source: IMSEE, 2013. These figures correspond to a concept of “worker weighting”, which is
a representation of employees in terms of a weight corresponding to the hours spent working
for their different employers on a pro rata basis.
Players in cross-border economic
governance
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In the tourism industry and in terms of promotion of the
environment, the nature parks constitute important entities
in cross-border cooperation.
This has given rise to the creation
of the Mercantour-Alpi Marittime European Park EGTC between
the Mercantour National Park (FR) and the Maritime Alps Nature
Park (IT) and the PMIBB
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EGTC between the Corsican Office of
the Environment (FR) and the National Park of the Maddalena
Archipelago (IT).
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In the North, with the Swiss canton of Valais, there is also
a plan for a “Mont Blanc Area” EGTC
concerned both with
environmental and economic development issues (including
tourism) and bringing together the Aosta Valley autonomous
region in Italy and two groupings of districts in France, (Chamonix
Valley-Mont-Blanc and Pays du Mont-Blanc), as well as two
Departments (Ain and Haute-Savoie).
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PMIBB: Parc Marin International des Bouches de Bonifacio (International Marine Park of
Bonifacio).
The Bouches de Bonifacio International Marine Park between Corsica and Sardinia
© PMIBB