With a foreigner share of almost 20 percent and a traditionally tight labourmarket, Switzerland has evolved into an immigration country against its own intention. In thepast, many low-qualified workers originally recruited on a temporary basis were allowed tosettle in Switzerland. This approach...

Following [10] we continue the study of the problem of expected utility maximization in incomplete markets. Our goal is to find minimal conditions on a model and a utility function for the validity of several key assertions of the theory to hold true....

In the context of an emerging focus on highly skilled migration throughout the OECD area,the question under which circumstances migrants can be expected to be relatively skilled is ofparticular importance. Borjas (1987, 1994) has analysed the relation between the incomedistribution and the...

[...]Ziel des vorliegenden Beitrags ist es, eine derartige Weiterentwicklung des Schätzverfahrens darzulegen und eine Neuberechnung der innerhalb der nächsten fünf Jahre zu erwartenden Unternehmensnachfolgen unter Anwen-dung dieses Schätzverfahrens vorzunehmen. Grundlage hierfür ist ein...