Les immigrés face à la retraite: rester ou retourner ?

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 definite consequences on the costs of swiss social security benefits. Our research project aims at clarifying which factors influence those immigrants who are near retirement to decide whether to stay or to go back to their home countries. The study is financed by the PNR 32 on "Aging" of the Swiss Research Fund FNRS.