In the past decade, Switzerland has experienced a large increase in the number ofindividuals that went into early retirement. This paper takes a look at the determinants of earlyretirement using data from the 2002 Swiss Labor Force Survey that contains an interestingmodule on this topic...

Switzerland has one of the highest employment rates of older individuals amongindustrialized countries. Nevertheless, in the past decade, Switzerland has experienced amarked trend toward early retirement. This study analyzes the motives of early retirement inSwitzerland in the 1990s...

With decreasing migration costs and fiscal decentralisation on the policy agenda in variousOECD countries, the impact of taxation on migration is of growing interest. Empirical studieson this topic have been limited due to a lack of comparable data in an international contextand a lack of...

Flexible Arbeitsformen gewinnen zunehmend an Bedeutung (vgl. z.B. Birchmeier 2002 sowieauch Graf/Henneberger/Schmid 2000). Die Frage, die in diesem Kontext unmittelbar auftaucht,ist, ob die zunehmende Flexibilisierung der Vertragsformen eine schleichende Abkehr vom Normalarbeitsverhältnis...

In this paper, the course-related training of elderly workers in Switzerland isanalysed with data from the Swiss Labour Force Survey. Elderly individuals invest substantialamounts in their human capital via course-related training...

This paper analyzes the effect of job satisfaction on labor turnover by gender usingdata from the first two waves of the Swiss Household Panel (1999 and 2000). The resultsreveal that job satisfaction is a very good predictor of future quits, yet the effect differsbetween men and women: all other...

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...

In this paper, the extent and determinants of coverage in the Swiss occupationalpension scheme (second pillar) and private savings scheme (third pillar) are analysed withdata from the Swiss Labour Force Survey. Estimates for coverage in the second pillar (whichis income-dependent) has, in total,...

In this paper, job stability is analyzed for Switzerland in the years 1991 to 2001using data from the first 11 waves of the Swiss Labor Force Survey (SLFS). Job stability ismeasured with one-year job separations and with on-the-job search behavior. For bothmeasures, the SLFS has interesting...

Die Fluktuationsrate, definiert als Wechsel des Arbeitsplatzes permanent beschäftigter Arbeitnehmer(zwischenbetriebliche oder Job-to-Job Mobilität), weist gegenwärtig einen Wertvon rund 10% aus. Damit wechseln - gemäß der Schweizerischen Arbeitskräfteerhebung(SAKE) des Jahres 2001 -...