Nowadays 75% of foreigners living in Switzerland have a permanent residence permit. A new phenomenon goes along with this stabilisation: the aging of this resident foreign population, especially Italians and Spaniards who arrived in Switzerland in the fifties and sixties. This trend will have...

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...

This paper begins with a survey of the classical legal theory of torts. Then we motivate and describe the economic approach to accident law. We demonstrate that negligence rules under which one party bears the entire accident costs induce an efficient pattern of behavior in a setup with...

The purpose of this paper is to estimate the value of Swiss residential real estate wealth using two alternative methods: the perpetual inventory method and the income capitalization method. We also use the insured value of all residential buildings and the amount of mortgages in order to...

This paper analyses the aims of social security systems with respect to migrant workers and describes the realizations of Switzerland in this matter.

When studying the population of Switzerland, it is advisable to distinguish between Swiss and foreign communities. The latter represents today 18% of the total population and its age structure tends to draw nearer to that of the Swiss by an aging process. The sex ratio is much different in the...

This paper identifies the contributions of the major factors explaining Swiss nominal GNP growth in an open-economy setting: technological change, increases in the endowments of labor and capital, movements in the terms of trade, and domestic output price changes. We follow in turns a...

In this paper the impact of migration on competitiveness and long-term growth is studied within a macrotheoretic model. To obtain endogenous growth, a research sector is integrated in the theory. Technical progress is employment-enlarging or labour-saving according to economic conditions. As a...

Various concepts of immigration policy are analysed with respect to their implications on Swiss real growth and sector shares of value added within a 4-sector-disaggregated neoclassical supply-side oriented General Equilibrium model. Special attention was given to the qualification of domestic...

In order to treat the problem of optimal growth of an aggregative economy, the goverment is introduced into the neo-classical growth model. The properties of the government's dynamic budget constraint are analyzed. Hence different kinds of government's policy requirements are taken into account...