Martin Werding beginnt die schrittweise Rekonstruktion des sogenannten "Generationenvertrages" bei neueren Ansätzen zu einer ökonomischen Fertilitäts-Theorie. Deren enge Verbindung zu den ähnlich langfristigen Entscheidungen über individuelle wie private Altersvorsorge wurden bislang selten...

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...