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...

Gegenstand der vorliegenden Studie ist ein umfassender, internationaler Institutionenvergleich zur Alterssicherung in den Staaten der EU-15, in der Schweiz und in den USA. Erfaßt werden dabei alle drei Säulen typischer Alterssicherungssysteme, d. h. staatliche Alterssicherung, betriebliche...