Bayesian decisions are observationally identical to decisions with judgment. Decisions with judgment test whether a judgmental decision is optimal and, in case of rejection, move to the closest boundary of the confidence interval, for a given confidence level. The resulting decisions condition...

The international development community has used the World Bank's Statistical Capacity Index since its inception in 2004. The Sustainable Development Goals create new challenges for national statistical systems to produce high-quality and internationally comparable data. This paper reviews...

The publication presents the biographies and achievements of over 30 people who, since the beginning of the 20th century, have contributed to the development of the theory and methodology of statistical research at country level as well as internationally. The book is about statisticians who...

Trotz anhaltender Pandemie normalisierte sich 2021 im Vergleich zum Vorjahr das bundesdeutsche Tarifgeschehen. In der Folge erreichte auch das Arbeitskampfgeschehen wieder das Niveau der Vor-Corona-Jahre. Das Arbeitskampfvolumen lag 2021 mit rund 590.000 arbeitskampfbedingten Ausfalltagen im...

This study proposes a Bayesian semiparametric binary response model using Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms since this Bayesian algorithm works when the maximum likelihood estimation fails. Implementing graphic processing unit computing improves the computation time because of its efficiency...

This report provides a mapping of existing research that employs online labour market data, covering both online job vacancies (demand side) and online applicant data (CVs) (supply side). We discuss and assess a variety of tools and empirical methods that have been used to address specific...

Informality is a dynamic and multidimensional concern that demands gender-sensitive data. In 2018, globally, more than 60% of employment was informal. However, global averages hide that in more countries the share of women in informal employment exceeds that of men. Also, women in the informal...

Mobilfunkdaten gelten als vielversprechende Datenquelle, ihre Qualität im Hinblick auf den Einsatz in der amtlichen Statistik ist jedoch bisher nicht systematisch untersucht worden. Dieser Artikel bietet einen Überblick über die bislang durchgeführten Projekte mit Mobilfunkdaten im...

Income is an important economic indicator to measure living standards and individual well-being. In Germany, there exist different data sources that yield ambiguous evidence when analysing the income distribution. The Tax Statistics (TS) - an income register recording the total population of...

Due to the non-normality of stock returns, nonparametric rank tests are gaining accceptance relative to parametric tests in financial economics event studies. In rank tests, financial assets’ multiple day cumulative abnormal returns (CARs) are replaced by cumulated ranks. This paper proposes...

In October 2021, the MEF asked Congress for the delegation of powers to legislate on tax matters with the aim of increasing tax collections and doing so by adding progressivity to the Peruvian tax system. The initiative being developed by the MEF contains (tentatively, to date) around 40...

In response to a request from the authorities and as part of the Data for Decisions (D4D)1 funded project under the submodule for Fiscal and Debt reporting, a government finance statistics (GFS) technical assistance (TA) mission was held remotely with the Lesotho Ministry of Finance (MOF) during...

Based on internal data, this paper finds that the capacity development program of the IMF's Statistics Department has prioritized technical assistance and training to fragile and conflict-affected states. These interventions have yielded only slightly weaker results in fragile states than in...

Mobilfunkdaten gelten als vielversprechende Datenquelle, ihre Qualität im Hinblick auf den Einsatz in der amtlichen Statistik ist jedoch bisher nicht systematisch untersucht worden. Dieser Artikel bietet einen Überblick über die bislang durchgeführten Projekte mit Mobilfunkdaten im...

To begin with, Sustainable Development Goals are of tremendous importance in all areas, being seen as vital aims in all domains, which makes them indispensable when it comes to addressing the particularities of the labour market these days. Subsequently, human resources occupy a distinctive and...

This report provides a mapping of existing research that employs online labour market data, covering both online job vacancies (demand side) and online applicant data (CVs) (supply side). We discuss and assess a variety of tools and empirical methods that have been used to address specific...

This paper studies the effect of employee job selection in a model of statistical discrimination in a competitive labor market. In an economy in which there are quality differences between groups, a surprisingly strong condition is required to guarantee discrimination against the worse qualified...