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T Straubhaar

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PubMed1996

Immigration and the public transfer system: some empirical evidence for Switzerland.

"Do immigrants subsidize the native population or vice versa? Is immigration a cost factor or a net benefit for the public transfer system? On the basis of the 1990 Swiss Consumer Survey, an attempt is made to answer these questions empirically.... The degree of participation of foreigners in the Swiss welfare state is estimated.... To this end, the public transfer balance (difference between government revenue and government expenditure) is empirically estimated for both native and foreign households. The method chosen covers public monetary transfers as well as the supply of goods and services by the government (real transfers). Social security insurance, redistribution through taxes, infrastructure investment (club goods) and immaterial goods such as the legal system (public goods) are thus covered."

Cost-Benefit Analysis↗
PubMed1996

[Population development and economic growth. A simulation analysis for Switzerland].

"A simulation exercise of a general equilibrium model for Switzerland makes clear that the macroeconomic impacts of aging populations are not very strong. There is no need for urgent policy actions to avoid severe negative economic consequences....However, the aging of population affects negatively the net income of the active labor force. An increasing share of their gross salaries goes to the retirement system to finance the pension payments of a growing number of pensioners. Attempts to moderate the elderly dependency ratio would lower this burden for the active labor force. Options are an increase of the female participation rate, an increase of the labor participation rate of the elderly--[which] also means a higher retirement age--and an increasing flow of immigrants. But socioeconomic problems might probably generate practical limits on the extent to which immigration can be increased." (SUMMARY IN ENG AND FRE)

Demography↗
PubMed1993

Migration pressure.

"The basic message of this paper is that migration pressure is caused by an excess supply of migration-willing people relative to migration demand in immigration countries....I will also analyse the willingness of destination countries to accept immigrants.... This article concentrates more on political (in-)stability as probably the most important determinant of migration pressure....I also focus on the enormous migration-retarding effect of stable and well defined political institutions." Data concerning migration from Turkey to Europe, and especially to Germany, are used to illustrate. (SUMMARY IN FRE AND SPA)

Asia↗
PubMed1993

[Qualitative aspects of migration in Switzerland: structural analysis based on a 1990 consumer survey].

"The study compares the Swiss and the resident foreign population in Switzerland with respect to their qualitative composition. On the basis of the Consumer Survey 1990 by the Swiss Statistical Office, different structural features of the surveyed Swiss and foreign households are analysed. A comparison of these characteristics shows statistically significant differences in age, number of children, household size and household income." (SUMMARY IN ENG AND FRE)

Age Factors↗
PubMed1993

[How immigration influences the national economic system of host countries: an empirical investigation for Switzerland].

"The study deals with the distributional effects of immigration into Switzerland. Focusing on the governmental budget, it explores empirically whether resident foreigners are a burden or a benefit for the Swiss public transfer system. The estimation is based on the Consumer Survey 1990 by the Swiss Statistical Office. It is shown that in 1990 the presence of foreigners has not put additional strain on the public coffers, but that, on the contrary, there was a beneficial financial effect for the natives. An analysis of this profitable immigration result shows the influence of the variables age (negative), number of children (negative), household income (positive) and qualification (positive)." (SUMMARY IN ENG AND FRE)

Age Factors↗
PubMed1992

Allocational and distributional aspects of future immigration to Western Europe.

"This article shows that an analysis of the impacts of immigration [in Western Europe] has to be divided into allocational and distributional aspects. From an allocational point of view, like free trade in goods, services and capital, migration is welfare-improving as long as marginal productivities of labor are not equalized worldwide. From a distributional point of view, however, the immigration society has to bear the effects of sharing its common public goods and its social values with the new immigrants. Free immigration will only be allowed if the allocational welfare gains exceed the distributional welfare losses. According to this rule of thumb, a guideline for an efficient migration policy is sketched."

Behavior↗
PubMed1990

[The outline of a European-oriented Swiss migration policy].

"The article reviews the Swiss migration policy. The author compares the E.C. [European Community]-guidelines with the Swiss migration policy. The latter is heavily influenced by interest groups. Swiss migration policy should be more efficient and less inward orientated. [He] proposes a treaty between the E.C. and Switzerland that would lead to complete freedom of movement between the E.C. and Switzerland." (SUMMARY IN ENG)

Demography↗
PubMed1989

[Are there ecological limits to population growth?].

"This study concludes that there is not much reason to believe in an absolute (Malthusian) ecological limit of population growth. The growth of population does not itself contribute to the ecological problems. Rather it is the per capita demand for resources and the strong and continuous disregard of the low entropy steady-state that could limit a further growth of population." (SUMMARY IN ENG)

Conservation of Natural Resources↗
PubMed1986

The causes of international labor migrations--a demand-determined approach.

The author first studies the reasons why people migrate using a neoclassical approach concerning income differentials. He tests this approach empirically and demonstrates its limits. A demand-determination approach based on human capital theory is then outlined to overcome these limits and to take into account restrictive immigration controls. Migration from Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal, and Turkey to the European Community destination countries is examined. It is concluded that "the demand for immigrants in the destination country is the decisive condition for the phenomenon of international labor migration, and the supply of migration-willing workers is only a necessary condition."

Asia↗