Building on a new data set which is combined from national micro-data bases, we highlight differences in the structure of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all immigrants to the OECD world. Looking at immigrants by source...

For a long time, migration has been subject to intensive economic research. Nevertheless, empirical evidence regarding the determinants of migration still appears to be incomplete. In this paper, we analyze the effects of socio-economic and institutional determinants, especially labor-market...

The German Income Tax Reform 2000, which announced a reduction in income tax rates to be implemented in a series of three stages, was welcomed by the public as a step towards unleashing lurking growth potentials. Nonetheless, in the course of the year 2001 a dispute arose, centering around the...

Zum ersten Mal seit vier Jahrzehnten ist der Bundeshaushalt im vergangenen Haushaltsjahr 2014 ohne neue Schulden ausgekommen. Bereits ein Jahr früher als geplant konnte der Bundesfinanzminister daher zu Beginn des Jahres 2015 das Erreichen der "schwarzen Null" im Bundeshaushalt verkünden....