This study examines the dynamics of economic freedom in nine advanced democracies in comparison to China over the 1970-2022 period. Using data from the Fraser Institute and the Manifesto Project Database, we apply a Bayesian time-series methodology to identify three key patterns. First, economic...

Professional inflation forecasts contain valuable information but exhibit information frictions. We extract improved forecasts by explicitly modeling these frictions using the US Survey of Professional Forecasters data, and find that forecast rigidity increases systematically with horizon,...

As studies worldwide have highlighted, place-based platform work is predominantly carried out by migrant and/or racialized workers. By tracing the migration trajectories of Chilean and Argentinian gig workers on Working Holiday Visas (WHV) in Germany, we shed light on how platform-mediated work...

Der Beitrag liefert einen systematischen Überblick zur außerklinischen Intensivpflege (AKI) in Deutschland im Zeitraum von 2018 bis 2022. Auf Basis von AOK-Daten von 18.363 AOK-Versicherten mit AKI werden erstmals umfassende deskriptive Ergebnisse zu den demografischen und...