Mathias Moser

Dr. Mathias Moser

Assistant Professor

matmoser@wu.ac.at

About me

I am an assistant professor at the Institute for Economic Geography and Researcher at the Research Institute Economics of Inequality. Here you can find information on my research and teaching. My research interests are:

Distribution of income & wealth
Taxation, tax microsimulation
Regional inequality and migration

Currently, I am a visiting researcher at LISER/University of Luxembourg and can be best reached via E-Mail. I will accept new thesis proposals starting with winter term 2020.

Current Research

Originalbeitrag in Fachzeitschrift

2021	Moser, Mathias, Jestl, Stefan, Raggl, Anna. 2021. Cannot keep up with the Joneses: how relative deprivation pushes internal migration in Austria. International Journal of Social Economics. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
2018	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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
2016	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. Read more
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. Read more
2015	Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias, Schnetzer, Matthias. 2015. Socioeconomic structures of the Austrian wealth distribution. Empirica, 42 (2), 269-289. Read more
2014	Moser, Mathias, Hofmarcher, Paul. 2014. Model Priors revisited: Interaction terms in BMA Growth Applications. Journal of Applied Econometrics 29 (2): S. 344-347. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
2012	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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
2008	Berka, Christopher, Humer, Stefan, Moser, Mathias. 2008. Verteilungspolitische Implikationen der steuerlichen Begünstigung des 13. und 14. Monatsgehaltes. Kurswechsel (3), 86-94. Read more

Small-scale Regional Inequality

First Analysis of Inequality in Austrian Municipalities

"Especially in suburban regions we find that commuters transfer high income from cities and accordingly increase the local income level. Compared to the local population this however leads to a spread in the income distribution and increases local inequality."

VIsualization Publication

From Rags to Riches?

The Role of Income and Bequests on Capital Accumulation

Based on HFCS data this study investigates how earned income and bequests affect capital accumulation possibilities. First results show, that the effects of both factors differ notably between countries of the Eurozone.

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