What if the bar were reversed one day? In recent months according to Statec, Luxembourg has had almost as many employees residing in the country as employees specifically crossing the border each day. 257,000 against 228,000 out of a total of 485,000 employees. “47% are cross-border workers,” confirms Statec in its overview of the world of work in Luxembourg published Monday on the sidelines of May 1st.
If you don’t feel like you’re learning anything new, the percentage still became particularly striking. In this ratio, 123,000 cross-border employees come from France, 53,000 from Germany and 52,000 from Belgium according to the latest available figures. And to further accentuate the trend, Statec specifies that “only one in four employees have Luxembourg nationality”.
58% men, 42% women, another lesson from the data shared on salaried employment in the Grand Duchy before Labor Day. 60% of the workforce uses digital skills very regularly, we learn, and less than one person in seven performs manual tasks for the majority of their working time. But are all these people satisfied with their daily lives at work? “Yes” for 86% of employees who live in Luxembourg and whose only answer is relayed here. Seven out of ten even feel sufficiently remunerated.
Statec indicates that 18.3% of resident workers work part-time, which places Luxembourg “slightly above the European average”. This is particularly notable among women, one in three of whom now work part-time, often by family or personal choice. “Thanks to a strong labor market and numerous employment opportunities, involuntary part-time work is much less widespread in Luxembourg than in other European countries,” underlines the report.
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