The emerging field of corporate demography views corporations and industries in a similar way to human or animal individuals and groups. This review essay examines what economists, particularly industrial organization specialists, and corporate demographers can learn from each other. The two...

The European Union consists of a wide variety of welfare states with social insurance schemes ranging from those providing earnings related benefits (Bismarckian)to flat rate benefits (Beveridgean)systems. The conventional wisdom is that with factor mobility poor people have incentives to move...