Economic policies shape how much people earn as well as how stable their income and jobs are. The level and stability of earnings both matter for well-being. Standard economic aggregates do not measure accurately the economic uncertainty which households are facing. This paper shows that...

The decline in macroeconomic volatility from the 1980s to the onset of the Great Recession did not, in general, translate into more microeconomic stability. While microeconomic volatility can reflect growth-generating processes, such as creative destruction and re-allocation of resources,...

This work seeks to quantify investment in Organisational Capital (OC) by looking at the task content of occupations. It relies on the literature suggesting OC to be embodied in a firm’s workforce and defines OC as those tasks performed by employees – irrespective of their occupational titles...

Die Verbesserung des Zugangs der Wirtschaft zu Mikrodatenfiles der amtlichen Statistik ist für die statistischen Ämter eine wichtige Aufgabe. In den Jahren 1988 bis 1990 sind Verfahren zur faktischen Anonymisierung von Mikrodatenfiles entwickelt worden. Sie bilden die Basis für die in den...