According to the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), in January this year the numbers of cross-broder workers living in France, Belgium and Germany and coming to Luxembourg on a daily basis rose to 187,000.
Of this number, around half come from France, mainly from the cities of Metz, Thionville and Longwy of three Lorraine departments: Meurthe-et-Moselle, the Meuse and the Moselle.
The geographical spread of the places of residence of French cross-border workers working in Luxembourg has changed. While the centre of gravity was more located towards Thionville at the end of the 1960s, with a dispersal ellipse pulled by Longwy in the north, this centre of gravity has moved towards the south, with a wider and massive ellipse shape.
The study also examined the education levels of the cross-border workers, the results of which are presented in the illustrative graphs.
