Article
Does the native population move out of neighbourhoods where immigrants move in?
November 2020
Jesús Fernández-Huertas, UC3M;Ada Ferrer i Carbonell, IAE-CSIC, Barcelona GSE, IZA;Albert Saiz, MIT;Adaptation: Jordi Pueyo
Between 1998 and 2008, the percentage of immigrant population in Spain grew from 3% to 13%. Did this favour the appearance of ghettos? Or was there balance in residential areas between natives and immigrants?
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Can algorithms expose tax fraud?
October 2020
Ignacio González, Agencia Estatal de Administración Tributaria;Alfonso Mateos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid;Adapted by: Eli Vivas and Carina Bellver (StoryData)
Things are becoming increasingly difficult for tax evaders, with the new big data and artificial intelligence techniques that detect hidden wealth, the abuse of aggressive tax engineering and money laundering.
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What do we know about the taxes we pay?
October 2020
Dirk Foremny, Universitat de Barcelona
People have important misperceptions regarding the level of taxes that they pay. Does knowing more change what we think about redistribution?