Using rich administrative and household survey data spanning 34 years from 1985 to 2018, we document a series of new facts on earnings inequality and dynamics in a developing country with a large informal sector: Brazil. Since the mid-1990s, both inequality and volatility of earnings have...

The COVID-19 pandemic had disproportionate impacts on women's employment, especially for mothers with school-age and younger children. However, the impacts likely varied depending on the type of policy response adopted by various governments. New Zealand presents a unique policy setting in which...

En este estudio utilizamos datos administrativos de la Seguridad Social para analizar la dinámica de los ingresos laborales y la incertidumbre respecto a ingresos futuros en España entre 2005 y 2018. Construimos medidas individuales de dicha incertidumbre basadas en características...

El objetivo de este estudio es analizar la calidad de la información sobre endeudamiento recogida por la Encuesta Financiera de las Familias (EFF). Para ello, implementamos un cruce de los datos de esta con los datos administrativos de la Central de Información de Riesgos (CIR), que contiene,...

El objetivo de este estudio es analizar la calidad de la información sobre endeudamiento recogida por la Encuesta Financiera de las Familias (EFF). Para ello, implementamos un cruce de los datos de esta con los datos administrativos de la Central de Información de Riesgos (CIR), que contiene,...

This paper estimates the incidence of corporate taxes on wages using a 20-year panel of German municipalities. Administrative linked employer-employee data allows estimating heterogeneous worker and firm effects. We set up a general theoretical framework showing that corporate taxes can have a...

We estimate the effects of income from various sources on charitable giving using administrative German income tax data. We demonstrate that charitable contributions are not uniformly affected by different income types. While business and capital income exhibit a positive effect, the remaining...

Using combined data from the German Pension Insurance and the Federal Employment Agency (BASiD), this study proposes different procedures for imputing the pre-unification education variable in the BASiD data. To do so, we exploit information on education-related periods that are creditable for...

We examine the consequences of underreporting of transfer programs in household survey data for several prototypical analyses of low-income populations. We focus on the Current Population Survey (CPS), the source of official poverty and inequality statistics, but provide evidence that our...

Due to the demographic change and the concomitant ageing of society, the labor force will reduce in Germany in the following decades. Simultaneously, the demand for informal care will increase as a result of the ageing society. Informal care is assumed being the least expensive form of care and...