IZA Discussion Papers

revised version published as “Why Did Income Inequality in Germany Not Increase Further After 2005?” in: German Economic Review, 2019, 20 (4), 471–504

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10392

Growth with Equity: Income Inequality in Vietnam, 2002–14

Dwayne Benjamin, Loren Brandt, Brian McCaig

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10308

Household Income Mobility in India: 1993-2011

Mehtabul Azam

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10126

Intergenerational Wealth Mobility and the Role of Inheritance: Evidence from Multiple Generations

Adrian Adermon, Mikael Lindahl, Daniel Waldenström

published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (612), F482-F513

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10125

(In)Equality and (In)Justice

Guillermina Jasso

published in: Civitas – Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2016, 16 (2), 189-217

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10124

Pareto Models, Top Incomes, and Recent Trends in UK Income Inequality

Stephen P. Jenkins

published in: Economica, 2017, 84, 261–289.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10089

Family, Community and Long-Term Earnings Inequality

Paul Bingley, Lorenzo Cappellari, Konstantinos Tatsiramos

revised version forthcoming as "Family, Community and Long-Term Socioeconomic Inequality: Evidence from Siblings and Youth Peers" in: Economic Journal, 2020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10064

Returns to Schooling among Immigrants in Spain: A Quantile Regression Approach

Santiago Budría, Pablo Swedberg, Marlene Fonseca

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10047

Intergenerational Mobility in Income and Economic Status in Ethiopia

Getinet Astatike Haile

published as 'Intergenerational Mobility in Socio-economic Status in Ethiopia' in: Journal of International Development, 2018, 30 (8), 1392 - 1413

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10005

Capabilities and Skills

James J. Heckman, Chase O. Corbin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9934

Local Neighbors as Positives, Regional Neighbors as Negatives: Competing Channels in the Relationship between Others' Income, Health, and Happiness

John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee, Carol Lee Graham

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9912

Entrepreneurs and Freelancers: Are They Time and Income Multidimensional Poor? The German Case

Joachim Merz, Tim Rathjen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9902

Wealth Inequality in Sweden: What Can We Learn from Capitalized Income Tax Data?

Jacob Lundberg, Daniel Waldenström

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9822

Labour Supply after Inheritances and the Role of Expectations

Karina Doorley, Nico Pestel

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 82(4), 843-863

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9718

What Has Been Happening to UK Income Inequality since the Mid-1990s? Answers from Reconciled and Combined Household Survey and Tax Return Data

Richard V. Burkhauser, Nicolas Herault, Stephen P. Jenkins, Roger Wilkins

Published in: Oxford Economic Papers, April 2018, 70(2), 301–326. (Open Access)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9684

Does Financial Deregulation Boost Top Incomes? Evidence from the Big Bang

Julia Tanndal, Daniel Waldenström

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9579

The Individual Perception of Wage Inequality: A Measurement Framework and Some Empirical Evidence

Andreas Kuhn

revised version published as `The Individual (Mis-)Perception of Wage Inequality: Measurement, Correlates and Implications' in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 59, 2039-2069

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9524

The Long Walk: Considering the Enduring Spatial and Racial Dimensions of Deprivation Two Decades after the Fall of Apartheid

Ronelle Burger, Servaas van der Berg, Sarel van der Walt, Derek Yu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9523

The Capability Threshold: Re-examining the Definition of the Middle Class in an Unequal Developing Country

Ronelle Burger, Camren McAravey, Servaas van der Berg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9468

Appraising Cross-National Income Inequality Databases: An Introduction

Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Nora Lustig, Daniel Teles

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2015, 13 (4), 497-526.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9406

The Subversive Nature of Inequality: Subjective Inequality Perceptions and Attitudes to Social Inequality

Andreas Kuhn

revised and shortened version published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 59, 331-344

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9395

Direct Evidence for Income Comparisons and Subjective Well-Being across Reference Groups

Laszlo Goerke, Markus Pannenberg

revised version published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 137, 95-101

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9361

Can Crop Purchase Programs Reduce Poverty and Improve Welfare in Rural Communities? Evidence from the Food Reserve Agency in Zambia

Winnie Fung, Saweda Liverpool-Tasie, Nicole Mason, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

forthcoming in: Agricultural Economics, 2020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9344

Earnings and Consumption Dynamics: A Nonlinear Panel Data Framework

Manuel Arellano, Richard Blundell, Stephane Bonhomme

published in: Econometrica, 2017, 85 (3), 693 - 734

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9294

The Role of Establishments and the Concentration of Occupations in Wage Inequality

Elizabeth Handwerker, James R. Spletzer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9210

Income Inequality in Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador: Different Reasons

María Aristizábal-Ramírez, Gustavo J Canavire Bacarreza, Michael Jetter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9190

Modelling the Joint Distribution of Income and Wealth

Markus Jäntti, Eva Sierminska, Philippe Van Kerm

published in: Research on Economic Inequality, 2015, 23, 301-327

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9189

When Experienced and Decision Utility Concur: The Case of Income Comparisons

Andrew E. Clark, Claudia Senik, Katsunori Yamada

published in Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 70, 1-9

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9152

A Tax Benefit Model for Policy Evaluation in Luxembourg: LuxTaxBen

Nizamul Islam, Lennart Flood

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9139

Multidimensional Affluence in Income and Wealth in the Eurozone: A Cross-Country Comparison Using the HFCS

Sine Kontbay-Busun, Andreas Peichl

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9100

Misperceiving Inequality

Vladimir Gimpelson, Daniel Treisman

published in: Economics and Politics, 2018, 30 (1), 27 - 54

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9037

Top Incomes in Canada: Evidence from the Census

Thomas Lemieux, W. Craig Riddell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8835

The Income Distribution in the UK: A Picture of Advantage and Disadvantage

Stephen P. Jenkins

published in: H. Dean and L. Platt (eds.), Social Advantage and Disadvantage, Ch.7, 135 - 160, Oxford University Press, 2016.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8832

Shifting Taxes from Labour to Property: A Simulation under Labour Market Equilibrium

Flavia Coda Moscarola, Ugo Colombino, Francesco Figari, Marilena Locatelli

revised version forthcoming as 'Shifting Taxes away from Labour Enhances Equity and Fiscal Efficiency' in: Journal of Policy Modelling, 2019

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8669

Wage Inequality and Wage Mobility in Turkey

Aysit Tansel, Basak Dalgic, Aytekin Güven

published in: Social Indicators Research, 2019, 142 (1), 107-129.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8589

Does the Choice of Well-Being Measure Matter Empirically? An Illustration with German Data

Koen Decancq, Dirk Neumann

revised version published in: M. Adler, M. Fleurbaey (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy, OUP, 2016, 553-587

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8501

World Income Inequality Databases: An Assessment of WIID and SWIID

Stephen P. Jenkins

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 13 (4), December 2015, 629–671

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8500

Long Term Trends in Fair and Unfair Inequality in the United States

Andrew Hussey, Michael Jetter

published in: Applied Economics, 2016, 49(12): 1147-1163

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8482

Beyond Inequality Accounting: Marital Sorting and Couple Labor Supply

Nico Pestel

published as 'Marital Sorting, Inequality and the Role of Female Labour Supply: Evidence from East and West Germany' in: Economica, 2017, 84 (333), 104-127 [Online]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8275

Optimal Taxation, Inequality and Top Incomes

Yuri Andrienko, Patricia Apps, Ray Rees

published as "Optimal Taxation and Top Incomes" in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2016, 23, 918-1003

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8244

Data for Studying Earnings, the Distribution of Household Income and Poverty in China

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Shi Li, Hiroshi Sato

published in China Economic Review, 2014, 30, 419-431

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8243

Inequality of Opportunity and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Analysis

Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Christoph Lakner, Maria Ana Lugo, Berk Özler

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2018, 64 (4), 800-827

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8220

Labour-Market Institutions and the Dispersion of Wage Earnings

Wiemer Salverda, Daniele Checchi

published in: A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (eds.): Handbook of Income Distribution, 2, 2015, 1535–1727

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8157

Long-Run Trends in the Distribution of Income and Wealth

Jesper Roine, Daniel Waldenström

published in: A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (eds.): Handbook of Income Distribution, 2, 2015, 469-592

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8136

Attitudes to Income Inequality: Experimental and Survey Evidence

Andrew E. Clark, Conchita D'Ambrosio

published in: A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (Eds.): Handbook of Income Distribution, 2A, 2015, 1147-1208

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8001

Euroskepticism in the Crisis: More Mood than Economy

Jo Ritzen, Klaus F. Zimmermann, Caroline Wehner

completely revised version published as 'Euroskepticism, Income Inequality and Financial Expectations' in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2015, 16 (2), 539-576

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7970

Why Is There No Income Gap Between the Hui Muslim Minority and the Han Majority in Rural Ningxia, China?

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Ding Sai

published in: China Quarterly, 2014, 220 (220), 968-987

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7911

Minimum Wage: Does It Improve Welfare in Thailand?

Ximena Del Carpio, Julián Messina, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, 65(2), 358-382

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7895

Marry Your Like: Assortative Mating and Income Inequality

Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, Georgi Kocharkov, Cezar Santos

published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2014, 104(5), 348-353

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7832

The Wealth, Health and Wellbeing of Ireland's Older People Before and During the Economic Crisis

Alan Barrett, Vincent O'Sullivan

published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2014, 21 (10), 675-678

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7823

Poverty Trends in Turkey

Sirma Demir Șeker, Stephen P. Jenkins

Revised version published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 13 (3), 2015, 401–424

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7818

Opportunity-Sensitive Poverty Measurement

Paolo Brunori, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Maria Ana Lugo, Vito Peragine

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7804

Shifting Taxes from Labor to Consumption: Efficient, but Regressive?

Nico Pestel, Eric Sommer

revised version published as 'Shifting Taxes from Labor to Consumption: More Employment and more Inequality?' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2017, 63 (3), 524-563

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7787

Wage Flexibility and the Great Recession: The Response of the Irish Labour Market

Aedin Doris, Donal O'Neill, Olive Sweetman

published in: [IZA Journal of European Labor Studies], 2015, 4(18)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7733

Does Wealth Inequality Matter for Growth? The Effect of Billionaire Wealth, Income Distribution, and Poverty

Sutirtha Bagchi, Jan Svejnar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7731

Income vs. Consumption Inequality in South Korea: Evaluating Stochastic Dominance Rankings by Various Household Attributes

Almas Heshmati, Robert Rudolf

published in: Asian Economic Journal, 2014, 28(4), 413-436.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7730

Income Mobility

Markus Jäntti, Stephen P. Jenkins

published in: AB Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (eds), Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume 2A, North-Holland Elsevier, 2015, Chapter 10, pp. 807–935.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7637

Wealth Distribution within Couples

Markus M. Grabka, Jan Marcus, Eva Sierminska

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2015, 13(3), 459-486

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7520

Income Inequality, Equality of Opportunity, and Intergenerational Mobility

Miles Corak

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2013, 27 (3), 79-102

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7514

Interpreting Trends in Intergenerational Income Mobility

Martin Nybom, Jan Stuhler

substantially revised version available at http://ideas.repec.org/p/hhs/sofiwp/2014_003.html

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7486

Long Run Trends in Australian Executive Remuneration: BHP 1887-2012

Mike Pottenger, Andrew Leigh

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7481

Crisis, Response and Distributional Impact: The Case of Ireland

Tim Callan, Brian Nolan, Claire Keane, Michael Savage, John R. Walsh

published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3:9

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7418

Polarization of Time and Income – A Multidimensional Approach with Well-Being Gap and Minimum 2DGAP: German Evidence

Joachim Merz, Bettina Scherg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7393

Income and Wealth in the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing

Vincent O'Sullivan, Brian Nolan, Alan Barrett

revised version published in: Economic and Social Review, 2014, 45 (3), 329-348, with Cara Dooley added as fourth author

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7352

The Making of Middle Class in Africa: Evidence from DHS Data

Mthuli Ncube, Abebe Shimeles

forthcoming in : Journal of Development Studies, January 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7345

Nominal or Real? The Impact of Regional Price Levels on Satisfaction with Life

Thomas Deckers, Armin Falk, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

published in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2016, 16, 1337–1358.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7321

Bonus Culture: Competitive Pay, Screening, and Multitasking

Roland Benabou, Jean Tirole

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7283

Fighting Poverty: Assessing the Effect of Guaranteed Minimum Income Proposals in Québec

Nicholas-James Clavet, Jean-Yves Duclos, Guy Lacroix

published in: Canadian Public Policy, 2013, 39 (4), 491-516

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7209

A Goodness-of-Fit Approach to Estimating Equivalence Scales

Martin Biewen, Andos Juhasz

substantially revised version published as 'Direct Estimation of Equivalence Scales and More Evidence on Independence of Base' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 79 (5), 875-905

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7204

UK Households' Carbon Footprint: A Comparison of the Association between Household Characteristics and Emissions from Home Energy, Transport and Other Goods and Services

Milena Buchs, Sylke V. Schnepf

revised version published as 'Who emits most? An analysis of UK households' CO2 emissions and their association with socio-economic factors' in: Ecological Economics, 2013, 90, 114-123

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7162

Analysis of the Determinants of Income and Income Gap between Urban and Rural China

Biwei Su, Almas Heshmati

published in: China Economic Policy Review, 2013, 2(1), 1-29.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7071

The Relationship between EU Indicators of Persistent and Current Poverty

Stephen P. Jenkins, Philippe Van Kerm

published in: Social Indicators Research, 2014, 116(2), 611–638

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7014

Charitable Bequests and Wealth at Death

Tony Atkinson, Peter G. Backus, John Micklewright

published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (605), F1-F23

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6987

Alike in Many Ways: Intergenerational and Sibling Correlations of Brothers' Earnings

Paul Bingley, Lorenzo Cappellari

revised version circulated as IZA DP 10761

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6969

Socioeconomic Assimilation and Wealth Accumulation of Migrants in Australia

Matias Vaira-Lucero, Daehoon Nahm, Massimiliano Tani

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6946

The Economic Security Index: A New Measure for Research and Policy Analysis

Jacob S. Hacker, Gregory Alain Huber, Austin Nichols, Philipp Rehm, Mark Schlesinger, Robert G. Valletta, Stuart Craig

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2014, 60 (S1)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6907

Intergenerational Income Persistency in Urban China

Deng Quheng, Björn Anders Gustafsson, Shi Li

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2013, 59 (3), 416-436

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6840

A Cautionary Note on Using Industry Affiliation to Predict Income

Jörn-Steffen Pischke, Hannes Schwandt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6761

The Great Happiness Moderation

Andrew E. Clark, Sarah Flèche, Claudia Senik

published in: Andrew Clark and Claudia Senik (Eds.), Happiness and Economic Growth: Lessons from Developing Countries. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, 22-139

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6745

Income Distribution among those of 65 Years and Older in Sweden

Gabriella Sjögren Lindquist, Eskil Wadensjö

published in: Marek Szczpanski (ed.), Old Age Crisis and Pension Reform. Where do we stand?, Poznan: Publishing House of Poznan University of Technology, 2013

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6730

Additive Decompositions with Interaction Effects

Martin Biewen

revised version published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2014, 21 (9), 636-642

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6721

Redistributive Preferences, Redistribution, and Inequality: Evidence from a Panel of OECD Countries

Andreas Kuhn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6674

Myth or Fact? The Beauty Premium across the Wage Distribution

Karina Doorley, Eva Sierminska

published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 129, 29–34

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6669

The Cycle of Earnings Inequality: Evidence from Spanish Social Security Data

Stephane Bonhomme, Laura Hospido

published in: Economic Journal, 127 (603), 2017, 1244–1278, DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12368

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6641

Lifetime versus Annual Tax Progressivity: Sweden, 1968–2009

Niklas Bengtsson, Bertil Holmlund, Daniel Waldenström

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6589

A Counting Approach for Measuring Multidimensional Deprivation

Rolf Aaberge, Eugenio Peluso

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6505

The Impact of Redistributive Policies on Inequality in OECD Countries

Philipp Doerrenberg, Andreas Peichl

revised version published in: Applied Economics, 2014, 46 (17), 2066-2086

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6493

Taxing Home Ownership: Distributional Effects of Including Net Imputed Rent in Taxable Income

Francesco Figari, Alari Paulus, Holly Sutherland, Panos Tsakloglou, Gerlinde Verbist, Francesca Zantomio

revised version forthcoming in Fiscal Studies as "Removing Homeownership Bias in Taxation: the Distributional Effects of Including Net Imputed Rent in Taxable Income"

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6463

The Intergenerational Persistence of Human Capital: An Empirical Analysis of Four Generations

Mikael Lindahl, Mårten Palme, Sofia Sandgren Massih, Anna Sjögren

split into two papers and published as 'A test of the Becker-Tomes model of human capital transmission using microdata on four generation' in: Journal of Human Capital, 2014, 7(1), 80-96 and as 'Long-term intergenerational persistence of human capital: an empirical analysis of four generations' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50(1), 1-33.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6396

The Distribution of Full Income in Greece

Christos Koutsampelas, Panos Tsakloglou

published in: International Journal of Social Economics 2013, 40, 311-330

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6340

Fading Hope in the US

Jo Ritzen, Klaus F. Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6283

Short-Run Distributional Effects of Public Education in Greece

Christos Koutsampelas, Panos Tsakloglou

revised version published as 'The Progressivity of Public Education in Greece: Empirical Findings and Policy Implications' in: Education Economics, 2015, 23(5), 596-611

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6170

Multidimensional Well-Being at the Top: Evidence for Germany

Andreas Peichl, Nico Pestel

revised version published in: Fiscal Studies, 2013, 34 (3), 355-371

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6030

Redistribution Policy and Inequality Reduction in OECD Countries: What Has Changed in Two Decades?

Herwig Immervoll, Linda Richardson

also available as OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6022

Intensity of Time and Income Interdependent Multidimensional Poverty: Well-Being and Minimum 2DGAP – German Evidence

Joachim Merz, Tim Rathjen

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