Consumption taxes are a crucial revenue source for EU Member States, yet they also potentially have non-negligible impact on income distribution. The EU's tax-benefit microsimulation model, EUROMOD, has recently been extended to simulate consumption taxes (CT) across all 27 EU countries allowing...

Die öffentliche Meinung findet Transparenz sympathisch, denn sie fördert eine offene und demokratische Gesellschaft. Privatpersonen tendieren hingegen zum Gegenteil und berufen sich dafür auf Grundrechte. Es bedarf deshalb einer Abwägung zwischen der Transparenz für Demokratie und faire...

The IABSE-ADIAB dataset provides the linkage between the most recent case of a hire from the IAB Job Vacancy Survey and the administrative data of the hired person. The data comprise the entire working history of persons who were identified as IAB Job Vacancy Survey hires from 2010 to 2020. The...

This paper studies how minimum wage policy affects firms' adoption of automation technologies. Using both state-level measures of robot exposure and novel plant-level data on industrial robot imports linked to U.S. Census microdata from 1992-2021, we show that increases in minimum wages raise...

This paper provides an extensive literature review and analyses some open issues in the measurement of inflation that can only be explored in depth using micro price data. It builds on the analysis done in the context of the ECB's strategy review, which pointed at directions for improvement of...

In the monthly ifo Business Survey, around 9000 companies answer questions about their current business situation, expectations, and plans for the near future as well as on other business variables. Beyond the regular questions, ifo has also the possibility to include supplementary questions...

Micro-data on robots have been very sparse in Germany so far. Consequently, a dedicated section has been introduced in the IAB Establishment Panel 2019 that includes questions on the number and type of robots used. This article describes the background and development of the survey questions,...

This paper aims to understand the existing gaps in micro-level data on forcibly displaced people--refugees and internally displaced persons. The paper undertakes a comprehensive review of all existing micro-level data sets in the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Microdata Library...

When a user shares multi-dimensional data about themselves with a firm, the firm learns about the correlations of different dimensions of user data. We incorporate this type of learning into a model of a data market in which a firm acquires data from users with privacy concerns. User data is...

We compute and characterize several labor flow measures using administrative tax records for all formal Chilean firms and employees. Our results show that labor mobility in Chile is significant by international standards, with the reallocation rate averaging 37% over the last decade, the highest...

"The Private Is Political not only exposes the threats to our personal and political identity in the age of Surveillance Capitalism, it also offers a roadmap for an effective means of reining in the worst abuses of Big Tech companies and their authoritarian enablers."

Angesichts ihrer nicht-rivalen und multifunktionalen Nutzbarkeit folgt der Austausch nutzergenerierter Daten einer Eigenlogik und hat erhebliche Auswirkungen auf Innovation und Wettbewerb. Auf dieser Grundlage untersucht die vorliegende Arbeit die wettbewerbsrechtlichen Grenzen des freiwilligen...

Plant eine Organisation ein neues IT-System, mit dem es personenbezogene Daten ihrer Kunden oder Mitarbeiter verarbeiten möchte, so stellt es den Planer des IT-Systems häufig vor große Herausforderungen, die Entwicklung und Inbetriebnahme des neuen IT-Systems unter Beachtung der...

This Ph.D. thesis consists of four self-contained chapters, which all investigate macroeconomic questions from a micro perspective: through structural models with either full distributional heterogeneity or approximations thereof, and in one case, through microdata. In addition, all projects are...

Every year, disasters account for billions of dollars in crop production losses in low- and middle-income countries and particularly threaten the lives and livelihoods of those depending on agriculture. With climate change accelerating, this burden will likely increase in the future and...

Die Problemstellung, die diesem neuen Arbeitspapier zugrunde liegt, ist die Kritik an der bisherigen Etablierung des Datenschutzes in der ESG-Dimension und die Berücksichtigung dessen in dem ESG-Score, welcher eine grundlegende Orientierung für Investitionsentscheidungen von ESG-Anlegern...

In recent years, important and headline-grabbing findings have emerged from research using individual income tax data for statistical purposes. Demand for these microdata, accessible under the tax administration authority of the Internal Revenue Code and through the IRS Statistics of Income...

Synthetic microdata - data retaining the structure of original microdata while replacing original values with modeled values for the sake of privacy - presents an opportunity to increase access to useful microdata for data users while meeting the privacy and confidentiality requirements for data...

"In the present day, Big Tech is extracting resources from us, transferring and centralizing resources from people to companies. These companies are grabbing our most basic natural resources--our data--exploiting our labor and connections, and repackaging our information to control our views,...