Mathias Moser
Dr. Mathias Moser- Telephone:
- +43 1 31336 5481
- Email:
- mathias.moser@wu.ac.at
- About me:
- I am an assistant professor at the [Institute for Economic Geography](https://wu.ac.at/wgi) and Researcher at the [Research Institute Economics of Inequality](https://wu.ac.at/ineq). My research interests include the **distribution of income & wealth**, **taxation & tax microsimulation**, **regional inequality**, and **migration.** More information on my homepage: [**matmoser.com**](https://matmoser.com)
Affiliation
CV
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2020
- WU Visiting Fellow (LISER, Luxembourg) since 2017
- Assistant Professor (Institute for Economic Geography) since 2017
- Researcher (Research Institute INEQ) 2015-2017
- Assistant Professor (Research Institute Economics of Inequality) 2011-2015
- Research Assistant (Institute for Macroeconomics) 2009-2011
- Project staff (Institute for Monetary and Fiscal Policy)
Researcher Identifier
- ORCID: 0000-0002-9619-0384
Awards and Honors
- 2017
- Kurt-Rothschild-Preis
Classifications
- 5300 Economics (Details)
- 5311 Public finance (Details)
- 5323 Econometrics (Details)
- 5341 Economic policy (Details)
- 5618 Regional economy (Details)
Expertise
- Income Distribution
- Wage and Income Tax system
- Microsimulations
- Econometrics
- Regional Analyses
- Inequality
- Economic Growth
Activities
| Reviewer for scientific organization | ||
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| 2020 | OeNB Jubiläumsfonds | |
| Reviewer for a scientific journal | ||
| 2021 | Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society | |
| 2020 | Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society | |
| 2019 | Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society | |
| 2018 | German Economic Review | |
| 2017 | Environment & Planning A | |
| 2015 | Regional Studies | |
| 2014 | Vienna Yearbook of Population Research | |
| 2013 | Journal of Applied Econometrics | |
| 2011 | Journal of Economic Surveys | |
| Reviewer for an international conference | ||
| 2015 | 10. Forschungsforum der österreichischen Fachhochschulen - "Brücken bauen" | |
| Organization scientific meeting (Conference etc.) | ||
| 2015 | Jean Monnet Round Table | |
| Organization other meeting (Excursion etc.) | ||
| 2015 | Opening Conference Economics of Inequality | |
Publications
Journal article
| 2022 | Jestl, Stefan, Moser, Mathias, Raggl, Anna. 2022. Cannot keep up with the Joneses: how relative deprivation pushes internal migration in Austria. International Journal of Social Economics. 49 (2) | (Details) | |
Theine, Hendrik, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias, Schnetzer, Matthias. 2022. Emissions inequality: Disparities in income, expenditure, and the carbon footprint in Austria. Ecological Economics. 197 107435
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| 2021 |
Essletzbichler, Jürgen, Moser, Mathias, Derndorfer, Judith, Staufer-Steinnocher, Petra. 2021. Spatial variation in populist right voting in Austria, 2013–2017. Political Geography. 90 1-11.
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| 2018 | Hofmarcher, Paul, Crespo Cuaresma, Jesus, Humer, Stefan, Grün, Bettina, Moser, Mathias. 2018. Bivariate jointness measures in Bayesian Model Averaging: Solving the conundrum. Journal of Macroeconomics. 57 150-165. | (Details) | |
| Essletzbichler, Jürgen, Disslbacher, Franziska, Moser, Mathias. 2018. The victims of neoliberal globalisation and the rise of the populist vote: a comparative analysis of three recent electoral decisions. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society. 11 (1), 73-94. | (Details) | ||
| 2017 | Moser, Mathias, Schnetzer, Matthias. 2017. The Income-Inequality Nexus in a Developed Country. Small-scale regional evidence from Austria. Regional Studies 51 (3), 454-466. | (Details) | |
| 2016 |
Asamer, Eva-Maria, Astleithner, Franz, Cetkovic, Predrag, Humer, Stefan, Lenk, Manuela, Moser, Mathias, Rechta, Henrik. 2016. Quality assessment for register-based statistics - Results for the Austrian census 2011. Austrian Journal of Statistics, 45 (2), 3-14.
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Crespo Cuaresma, Jesus, Grün, Bettina, Hofmarcher, Paul, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2016. Unveiling Covariate Inclusion Structures In Economic Growth Regressions Using Latent Class Analysis. European Economic Review, 81, 189-202.
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| 2015 |
Schnetzer, Matthias, Astleithner, Franz, Cetkovic, Predrag, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias, Lenk, Manuela. 2015. Quality Assessment of Imputations in Administrative Data. Journal of Official Statistics, 31 (2), 231-247.
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| Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias, Schnetzer, Matthias. 2015. Socioeconomic structures of the Austrian wealth distribution. Empirica, 42 (2), 269-289. | (Details) | ||
| 2014 | Moser, Mathias, Hofmarcher, Paul. 2014. Model Priors revisited: Interaction terms in BMA Growth Applications. Journal of Applied Econometrics 29 (2): S. 344-347. | (Details) | |
| 2013 |
Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias, Schnetzer, Matthias, Ertl, Michael, Kilic, Atila. 2013. Über die Bedeutung von Kapitaleinkommen für die Einkommensverteilung Österreichs. Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft 39 (4): S. 571-586.
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| 2012 | Berka, Christopher, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias, Lenk, Manuela, Rechta, Henrik, Schwerer, Eliane. 2012. Combination of Evidence from Multiple Administrative Data Sources. Statistica Neerlandica 66 (1), 18-33. | (Details) | |
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Altzinger, Wilfried, Berka, Christopher, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2012. Die langfristige Entwicklung der Einkommenskonzentration in Österreich 1957-2009. Teil 2: Methodik und Ergebnisse. Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft 38 (1), 77-102.
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| 2011 |
Altzinger, Wilfried, Berka, Christopher, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2011. Die langfristige Entwicklung der Einkommenskonzentration in Österreich, 1957-2008. Teil 1: Literaturüberblick und Beschreibung der Daten. Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft 37 (4): S. 513-530.
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| 2010 |
Berka, Christopher, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias, Lenk, Manuela, Schwerer, Eliane, Rechta, Henrik. 2010. A Quality Framework for Statistics based on Administrative Data Sources using the Example of the Austrian Census 2011. Austrian Journal of Statistics 39 (4): 299-308.
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| 2008 |
Berka, Christopher, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2008. Verteilungspolitische Implikationen der steuerlichen Begünstigung des 13. und 14. Monatsgehaltes. Kurswechsel (3), 86-94.
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Chapter in edited volume
| 2016 |
Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias, Altzinger, Wilfried. 2016. Entwicklung und Verteilung der Einkommen. In: Sozialbericht 2015-2016, Hrsg. BMASK, 227-268. Wien: BMASK.
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| 2015 | Altzinger, Wilfried, Moser, Mathias, Schnetzer, Matthias. 2015. Die Entwicklung der Verteilung von Einkommen und Vermögen seit dem EU-Beitritt 1995. In: Politische Ökonomie Österreichs: Kontinuitäten und Veränderungen seit dem EU-Beitritt, Hrsg. BEIGEWUM (Hg.), 349-368. Wien: Mandelbaum. | (Details) | |
| 2011 | Berka, Christopher, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2011. Verteilungs- und Aufkommenseffekte eines integrierten Tarifs für Sozialversicherung und Lohnsteuer. In: Armut und Reichtum Ungleiche Lebenslagen, -chancen, -stile und -welten in Österreich, Hrsg. Michael Rosecker/Sabine Schmitner, S. 323-340. Wiener Neustadt: Verein Alltag Verlag. | (Details) |
Contribution to conference proceedings
| 2009 | Berka, Christopher, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2009. Verteilungswirkungen des SV- und Lohnsteuersystems. In POSITIONEN: Gerechtigkeit - Beiträge zur Sozial-, Bildungs- und Wirtschaftspolitik, Hrsg. Momentum, 191-210. Wien: Braumüller. | (Details) |
Paper presented at an academic conference or symposium
| 2020 | Moser, Mathias. 2020. Displacement & Migration: Does it pay off? SEMILUX, Remote, Luxembourg, 10.06.-10.06. | (Details) | |
| Moser, Mathias. 2020. We just estimated a million regressions. LISER Internal Seminar, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, 12.03.-12.03. | (Details) | ||
| 2016 | Moser, Mathias. 2016. Kalte Progression: Verteilungswirkungen einer automatischen Abgeltung. Fachbeirat Volkswirtschaft, Statistik Austria, Wien, Austria, 28.11.-28.11. Invited Talk | (Details) | |
| 2015 | Moser, Mathias. 2015. A Comprehensive Approach to Posterior Jointness Analysis in Bayesian Model Averaging Applications. XVIII Applied Economic Meeting, Alicante, Spanien, 04.06.-05.06. | (Details) | |
| Moser, Mathias. 2015. Europas Vermögenseliten. Eine Analyse der Struktur von Vermögenden im HFCS. Momentum Kongress, Hallstatt, Austria, 22.10.-25.10. | (Details) | ||
| 2014 | Moser, Mathias. 2014. BMA Covariate Inclusion Structures - A Latent Class Approach. Second Bayesian Young Statisticians Meeting, Vienna, Österreich, 18.09.-19.09.. | (Details) | |
| Moser, Mathias. 2014. Spatial Dynamics of Income Inequality in Austria. WIFO Regional Economics Workshop, Wien, Österreich, 01.09.-02.09.. | (Details) | ||
| Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias, Schnetzer, Matthias. 2014. Socioeconomic Determinants of the Wealth Distribution among Austrian Households. Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association, Vienna, Österreich, 29.05.-31.05.. | (Details) | ||
| Moser, Mathias. 2014. Are unequal communities more polluted? A spatial analysis of neighborhood inequality and industrial air pollution in the US. FMM Conference, Berlin, Deutschland, 28.10.-30.10.. | (Details) | ||
| 2013 | Moser, Mathias, Schnetzer, Matthias. 2013. Regionale Einkommensungleichheit in Österreich. Momentum Kongress, Hallstatt, Österreich, 17.10.-20.10.. | (Details) | |
| Schnetzer, Matthias, Moser, Mathias. 2013. Spatial Dynamics of Income Inequality in Austria. Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association (NoeG), Innsbruck, Österreich, 10.05.-11.05.. | (Details) | ||
| 2012 | Moser, Mathias. 2012. Dilution priors for neighbourhoods of models in Bayesian Model Averaging. An Application to the Financial Crisis of 2008/09.. ECOMOD, Sevilla, Spanien, 04.07.-06.07.. | (Details) | |
| Altzinger, Wilfried, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2012. Entwicklung der Einkommenskonzentration in Österreich, 1957-2009. Historikertag, Krems/Stein, Österreich, 27.09.. Vortrag auf Einladung | (Details) | ||
| 2011 | Berka, Christopher, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias, Lenk, Manuela, Rechta, Henrik, Schwerer, Eliane. 2011. Quality Measures for Administrative Registers: Preliminary Results for the Austrian Census 2011. New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics, Brussels, Belgien, 22.02.-24.02.. | (Details) | |
| Moser, Mathias. 2011. Interaction Terms and Restricted Model Spaces in Bayesian Model Averaging. An Application to Growth. Computational and Financial Econometrics, London, Großbritannien, 17.12.-19.12.. | (Details) | ||
| 2010 | Berka, Christopher, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2010. TAXSIM - Ein Mikrosimulationsmodell für Österreichs SV- und Lohnsteuersystem. WIFO Extern, Wien, Österreich, 08.07-08.07. | (Details) | |
| Berka, Christopher, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias, Lenk, Manuela, Rechta, Henrik, Schwerer, Eliane. 2010. Bewertung der Qualität registerbasierter Statistiken. 6. Predictive Analytics Konferenz 2010, Wien, Österreich, 18.05.-19.05.. | (Details) | ||
| Berka, Christopher, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias, Fiedler, Reinhard, Schwerer, Eliane. 2010. Quality assessment for register-based Statistics in Austria. European Conference on Quality in Official Statistics, Helsinki, Finnland, 03.05.-06.05.. | (Details) | ||
| Berka, Christopher, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias, Fiedler, Reinhard, Schwerer, Eliane. 2010. Quality Assessment for register-based Statistics in Austria. Joint UNECE/Eurostat Expert Group Meeting on Register-Based Censuses, The Hague, Niederlande, 11.05.-12.05.. | (Details) | ||
| Berka, Christopher, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias, Fiedler, Reinhard, Schwerer, Eliane. 2010. Quality Assessment for register-based Statistics in Austria. Neighbouring Countries Cooperation Workshop on administrative data (AD) examination and measurement of AD-quality, Budapest, Ungarn, 31.05.-01.06.. | (Details) | ||
| 2009 | Altzinger, Wilfried, Berka, Christopher, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2009. Die Verwendung von Mikrodaten in Forschung und Lehre an der WU. Die Verwendung von Mikrodaten in d. wissenschaftlichen Lehre, Wien, Österreich, 17.06-17.06. | (Details) | |
| Altzinger, Wilfried, Berka, Christopher, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2009. Ein Modell zur Simulation von Reformvorschlägen der Lohnsteuer und Sozialversicherung. ÖSG Statistiktage, Wien, Österreich, 16.04-16.04. | (Details) | ||
| Altzinger, Wilfried, Berka, Christopher, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2009. The Development of Top-Incomes in Austria, 1954-2007. Research Seminar in Economics, FU Berlin, Deutschland, 28.10-28.10. | (Details) | ||
| Berka, Christopher, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2009. Modelling the Impacts of Tax Reform Proposals on Governmental Revenues and the Distribution of Incomes. NOeG 2009 Annual Conference, Linz, Österreich, 22.05-23.05. | (Details) | ||
| 2008 | Berka, Christopher, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2008. Verteilungspolitische Implikationen der steuerlichen Begünstigung des 13. und 14. Monatsgehalts. Verteilung und Demokratie, Wien, Österreich, 14.11-16.11. | (Details) |
Poster presented at an academic conference or symposium
| 2019 | Moser, Mathias. 2019. Deprivation & Migration: Evidenz aus Registerdaten. WU-Stadt Wien Vernetzungstreffen, Wien, Austria, 03.12.-03.12. | (Details) |
Working/discussion paper, preprint
| 2017 | Jestl, Stefan, Moser, Mathias, Raggl, Anna. 2017. Can't Keep Up with the Joneses: How Relative Deprivation Pushes Internal Migration in Austria. | (Details) | |
| Essletzbichler, Jürgen, Disslbacher, Franziska, Moser, Mathias. 2017. The victims of neoliberal globalization and the rise of the populist vote: A comparative analysis of three recent electoral decisions. | (Details) | ||
| 2016 |
Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias, Schnetzer, Matthias. 2016. Bequests and the Accumulation of Wealth in the Eurozone. INEQ Working Paper Series 1.
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| 2014 |
Zwickl, Klara, Moser, Mathias. 2014. Informal environmental regulation of industrial air pollution: Does neighborhood inequality matter?
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| Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias, Schnetzer, Matthias. 2014. Sozioökonomische Charakteristika desobersten Prozents der Vermögensverteilungin Österreich. | (Details) | ||
| Moser, Mathias and Schnetzer, Matthias. 2014. The Geography of Average Income and Inequality: Spatial Evidence from Austria. Department of Economics Working Paper Series, 191. | (Details) | ||
| 2013 |
Crespo Cuaresma, Jesus, Moser, Mathias, Raggl, Anna. 2013. On the Determinants of Global Bilateral Migration Flows. WWWforEurope Working Paper 5/2013.
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Research report, expert opinion
| 2016 | Altzinger, Wilfried, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2016. Entwicklung und Verteilung der Einkommen. Wien:Sozialministerium. | (Details) | |
| Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2016. Gesamtabgabenstatistik der österreichischen Privathaushalte. Wien:WU. | (Details) | ||
| Moser, Mathias, Humer, Stefan. 2016. Zur kalten Progression und den Verteilungswirkungen ihrer Abgeltung. Wien:WU. | (Details) | ||
| 2014 | Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias, Schnetzer, Matthias. 2014. Einkommensverteilung in Österreich.Eine komparative Analyse von Mikrodatensätzen. Wien:Arbeiterkammer Wien. | (Details) | |
| Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias, Schnetzer, Matthias. 2014. Sozioökonomische Charakteristika derVermögensverteilung in Österreich. Wien:Arbeiterkammer Wien. | (Details) |
Multimedia
| 2019 | Moser, Mathias, Humer, Stefan, Derndorfer, Judith. 2019. inequalityin.eu. Interactive Webpage. | (Details) | |
| 2014 | Moser, Mathias. 2014. ATINEQ: Ungleichheit in Österreich. INEQ@WU. | (Details) |
Media report
| 2021 | Disslbacher, Franziska, Moser, Mathias. 2021. Beyond the Gini coefficient to understand income inequality within and between regions. | (Details) | |
| 2016 | Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2016. Aus für kalte Progression besser für Gutverdiener. | (Details) | |
| Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2016. Kalte Progression: Gleichmäßige Entlastung begünstigt Besserverdiener. | (Details) | ||
| Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2016. Kalte Progression: WU-Studie warnt vor 'Umverteilung nach oben' | (Details) | ||
| Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2016. Steuerpolitik im ”Blindflug“. | (Details) | ||
| Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2016. Studie über Steuern: Spitzenverdiener zahlen weniger. | (Details) | ||
| Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2016. Studie: Frischer Stoff für den Steuerstreit. | (Details) | ||
| Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2016. Studie: Ganz oben sinkt die Abgabenbelastung wieder. | (Details) |
Dissertation
| 2015 |
Moser, Mathias. 2015. Macroeconomic Applications of Bayesian Model Averaging. Dissertation, WU Vienna.
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Diploma thesis
| 2009 | Berka, Christopher, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2009. Verteilungswirkungen der staatlichen Einnahmenseite am Beispiel des österreichischen Sozialversicherungs- & Lohnsteuersystems. Simulation von Reformvorschlägen auf Basis einer 1% Stichprobe der Lohnsteuerstatistik 2006.. Diplomarbeit, Institut für Geld- und Finanzpolitik. | (Details) |
Unpublished lecture
| 2017 | Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2017. Einkommens- und Vermögensungleichheit in Österreich - Reformoptionen für ein modernes Steuersystem. Dialogforum "Steuergerechtigkeit" St. Pölten, 19.09. | (Details) | |
| 2016 | Humer, Stefan and Moser, Mathias. 2016. Aktuelle Schwerpunkte der Verteilungsforschung. Workshop, Rechnungshof, 08.04. | (Details) | |
| Moser, Mathias. 2016. Lügen für Fortgeschrittene: Bayesianische Statistik in der Ökonom(etr)ie. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Mathematik NÖ, St. Pölten, 16.02. | (Details) |
Miscellaneous
| 2013 | Moser, Mathias, Schnetzer, Matthias. 2013. Entwicklung der regionalen Einkommensverteilung in Österreich zwischen 2004 und 2010. STATISTIK AUSTRIA Schnellbericht 10.6. | (Details) | |
| Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias, Schnetzer, Matthias, Ertl, Michael, Kilic, Atila. 2013. Einkommensverteilung in Österreich. Eine komparative Analyse von Mikrodatensätzen.. Materialien zu Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. | (Details) |
Projects
- 2018
- Perspectives of the income tax system (2018-2018) (Details)
- 2017
- The nexus between income and regional mobility in Austria (2017-2018) (Details)
- The Distribution of Unpaid Work between Couples (2017-2018) (Details)
- 2016
- Capital Income in the Euro zone (2016-2019) (Details)
- Distributional National Accounts based on the HFCS (2016-2019) (Details)
- National Social Report 2016 (2016-2016) (Details)
- 2015
- Social Deprivation and Within-Country Migration in Austria (2015-2016) (Details)
- Distributional Effects of Total Taxes in Austria (2015-2016) (Details)
- Changes in Inequality by Occupation in the EU (2015-2016) (Details)
- 2014
- Socioeconomic Households Characteristics in the Top of the European Wealth Distribution (2014-2015) (Details)
- Matching of Income and Expenditure Surveys (2014-2015) (Details)
- US Neighbourhood Inequality (2014-2016) (Details)
- 2013
- Income and Wealth Inequality in Austria: Evidence from the HFCS (2013-2014) (Details)
- 2011
- Error Estimation for the register-based Census (2011-2014) (Details)
- 2009
- Growing Inequality? A micro-data analysis of Austrian wage incomes (2009-2010) (Details)
- 2008
- Simulations Software "TAXSIM" for Social Security Contributions and Wage Tax System (Details)