IZA Discussion Papers

Robert Manduca, Maximilian Hell, Adrian Adermon, Jo Blanden, Espen Bratberg, Anne C. Gielen, Hans van Kippersluis, Keun Bok Lee, Stephen Machin, Martin D. Munk, Martin Nybom, Yuri Ostrovsky, Sumaiya Rahman, Outi Sirniö

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13359

What Accounts for the Rising Share of Women in the Top 1%?

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13339

Decomposing Poverty in Hard Times: Greece 2007-2016

Eirini Andriopoulou, Eleni Kanavitsa, Panos Tsakloglou

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13326

Inequality Measurement and Tax/Transfer Policy

Patricia Apps, Ray Rees

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13249

Social Stability Challenged: Pandemics, Inequality and Policy Responses

Cristiano Perugini, Marko Vladisavljević

forthcoming in: Journal of Policy Modeling, 2020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13222

The Insights and Illusions of Consumption Measurements

Erich Battistin, Michele De Nadai, Nandini Krishnan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13196

Modelling Errors in Survey and Administrative Data on Employment Earnings: Sensitivity to the Fraction Assumed to Have Error-Free Earnings

Stephen P. Jenkins, Fernando Rios-Avila

published in: Economics Letters, 2020, online first at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109253

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13082

Accounting for Wealth Concentration in the US

Barıș Kaymak, David Leung, Markus Poschke

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13070

Was Falling Inequality in All Latin American Countries a Data-Driven Illusion? Income Distribution and Mobility Patterns in Uruguay 2009-2016

Gabriel Burdin, Mauricio De Rosa, Andrea Vigorito, Joan Vilá

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13057

Comparing Distributions of Ordinal Data

Stephen P. Jenkins

forthcoming in: The Stata Journal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13044

Long-Term Evolution of Inequality of Opportunity

Maurizio Bussolo, Daniele Checchi, Vito Peragine

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12999

The Wealth of Parents: Trends over Time in Assortative Mating Based on Parental Wealth

Sander Wagner, Diederik Boertien, Mette Gørtz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12972

Satisfaction with Life, Happiness, and Inequality – a Pseudo-Panel Study

Søren Jensen, Peder J. Pedersen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12918

Pension Reform and the Efficiency-Equity Trade-Off: Impacts of Removing an Early Retirement Subsidy

Asbjørn Goul Andersen, Simen Markussen, Knut Røed

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12910

On the Precarious Link between the Gini Coefficient and the Incentive to Migrate

Oded Stark, Lukasz Byra, Grzegorz Kosiorowski

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12874

The Wage Premium of Communist Party Membership: Evidence from China

Hongjian Wang, Plamen Nikolov, Kevin Acker

accepted/forthcoming

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12855

Evaluating the Success of President Johnson's War on Poverty: Revisiting the Historical Record Using a Full-Income Poverty Measure

Richard V. Burkhauser, Kevin Corinth, James Elwell, Jeff Larrimore

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12823

Income Volatility, Health and Well-Being

Amelie Adeline, Ismael Choinière Crèvecoeur, Raquel Fonseca, Pierre-Carl Michaud

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12811

Inequality Comparisons with Ordinal Data

Stephen P. Jenkins

revised version forthcoming in: Review of Income and Wealth

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12810

Better Off? Distributional Comparisons for Ordinal Data about Personal Well-Being

Stephen P. Jenkins

published in: New Zealand Economic Papers, online ahead of print, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00779954.2019.1697729 (Open Access)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12757

Income Growth and its Distribution from Eisenhower to Obama: The Growing Importance of In-Kind Transfers (1959-2016)

James Elwell, Kevin Corinth, Richard V. Burkhauser

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12743

Differences in Euro-Area Household Finances and their Relevance for Monetary-Policy Transmission

Thomas Hintermaier, Winfried Koeniger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12737

Job Satisfaction and Coworker Pay in Canadian Firms

Mohsen Javdani, Brian Krauth

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12734

Reevaluating Distributional Consequences of the Transition to Market Economy in Poland: New Results from Combined Household Survey and Tax Return Data

Michał Brzeziński, Michal Myck, Mateusz Najsztub

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12694

Evidence on Intergenerational Income Transmission Using Complete Dutch Population Data

Fiona Carmichael, Christian Darko, Marco G Ercolani, Ceren Ozgen, W. Stanley Siebert

Economic Letters, 189(108996).

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12655

Life Cycle Saving and Dissaving Revisited across Three-Tiered Income Groups: Starting Hypotheses, Refinement through Literature Review, and Ideas for Empirical Testing

Robert Holzmann, Mercedes Ayuso, Estefanía Alaminos, Jorge Miguel Bravo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12643

Career or Flexible Work Arrangements? Gender Differences in Self-Employment in a Young Market Economy

Dominik Buttler, Eva Sierminska

published in: Journal of Family and Economic Issues, published 02 March 2020 (https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10834-020-09668-x)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12637

Pure Rank Preferences and Variation in Risk-Taking Behavior

Oded Stark, Wiktor Budzinski, Marcin Jakubek

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12625

Redistribution of Individual Pension Wealth to Survivor Pensions: Evidence from a Stated Preferences Analysis

Andries de Grip, Didier Fouarge, Raymond Montizaan

published in: Journal of Behavior Economics and Organization, 2020, 173, 402-421.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12519

Climbing up Ladders and Sliding down Snakes: An Empirical Assessment of the Effect of Social Mobility on Subjective Wellbeing

Paul Dolan, Grace Lordan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12505

Measuring Economic Mobility in India Using Noisy Data: A Partial Identification Approach

Hao Li, Daniel L. Millimet, Punarjit Roychowdhury

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12423

On Social Preferences and the Intensity of Risk Aversion

Oded Stark

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12404

Transitioning Towards More Equality? Wealth Gender Differences and the Changing Role of Explanatory Factors over Time

Eva Sierminska, Daniela Piazzalunga, Markus M. Grabka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12350

The Distribution of Well-Being among Europeans

Andrea Brandolini, Alfonso Rosolia

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12345

Catching up with the West: Chinese Pathways to the Global Middle Class

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Xiuna Yang, Terry Sicular

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12303

Do Employee Share Owners Face Too Much Financial Risk?

Douglas L. Kruse, Joseph Blasi, Dan Weltmann, Saehee Kang, Jung Ook Kim, William Castellano

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12283

Repercussions of Negatively Selective Migration for the Behavior of Nonmigrants When Preferences Are Social

Oded Stark, Wiktor Budzinski

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12266

Combining Administrative and Survey Data to Improve Income Measurement

Bruce D. Meyer, Nikolas Mittag

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12199

Inequality and Trade Policy: Pro-Poor Bias of Contemporary Trade Restrictions

Beyza Ural Marchand

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, 65, 123-152.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12151

An Empirical Total Survey Error Decomposition Using Data Combination

Bruce D. Meyer, Nikolas Mittag

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12145

Parental Child Care Time, Income and Subjective Well-Being: A Multidimensional Polarization Approach for Germany

Joachim Merz, Normen Peters

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12130

Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe

Alberto Alesina, Elie Murard, Hillel Rapoport

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12085

Partial Identification of Economic Mobility: With an Application to the United States

Daniel L. Millimet, Hao Li, Punarjit Roychowdhury

published in: Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2020, 38, 732-753

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12046

The Race between Demand and Supply: Tinbergen's Pioneering Studies of Earnings Inequality

James J. Heckman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12038

Misreporting of Government Transfers: How Important Are Survey Design and Geography?

Bruce D. Meyer, Nikolas Mittag

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12015

Income Inequality and the Size of Government: A Causal Analysis

Martin Guzi, Martin Kahanec

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12014

Perspectives on Poverty in Europe

Stephen P. Jenkins

published in: Italian Economic Journal, 6 (1), March 2020, 129-155 (Open Access)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11953

Housing Expenditures and Income Inequality

Christian Dustmann, Bernd Fitzenberger, Markus Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11884

A Different Perspective on the Evolution of UK Income Inequality

Anthony B. Atkinson, Stephen P. Jenkins

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 66(2), June 2020, 253-266 (Open Access)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11840

Capital Income Risk and the Dynamics of the Wealth Distribution

Hoang Khieu, Klaus Wälde

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11838

Top Incomes in Germany, 1871-2014

Charlotte Bartels

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11784

Food for Fuel: The Effect of the US Biofuel Mandate on Poverty in India

Ujjayant Chakravorty, Marie-Helene Hubert, Beyza Ural Marchand

published in: Quantitative Economics, Econometric Society, 10(3), 2019, 1153-1193

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11776

Errors in Survey Reporting and Imputation and Their Effects on Estimates of Food Stamp Program Participation

Bruce D. Meyer, Nikolas Mittag, Robert M. Goerge

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11763

Relative Income and Happiness: An Experiment

John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee, Daniel Houser, Lina Diaz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11758

A Tale of Two Cities: An Experiment on Inequality and Preferences

Maria Bigoni, Veronica Rattini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11710

Trouble in the Tails? What We Know about Earnings Nonresponse Thirty Years after Lillard, Smith, and Welch

Christopher R. Bollinger, Barry Hirsch, Charles M. Hokayem, James P. Ziliak

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 127 (5), 2143-2185

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11601

Measuring Unfair Inequality: Reconciling Equality of Opportunity and Freedom from Poverty

Paul Hufe, Ravi Kanbur, Andreas Peichl

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11562

Structural Labour Supply Models and Microsimulation

Rolf Aaberge, Ugo Colombino

revised version published in: International Journal of Microsimulation, 2018, 11 (1), 162 - 197

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11522

From Classes to Copulas: Wages, Capital, and Top Incomes

Rolf Aaberge, Anthony B. Atkinson, Sebastian Königs

published in: The Journal of Economic Inequality, June 2018, Vol. 16(2), 295–320.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11519

Employer Power, Labor Saving Technical Change, and Inequality

Nancy H. Chau, Ravi Kanbur

forthcoming in: Festschrift in Honor of Pranab Bardhan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11484

How Valid Are Synthetic Panel Estimates of Poverty Dynamics?

Nicolas Herault, Stephen P. Jenkins

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2019, 17 (1), 51--76

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11475

How Should Capital Be Taxed? Theory and Evidence from Sweden

Spencer Bastani, Daniel Waldenström

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11439

Inequality in EU Crisis Countries: How Effective Were Automatic Stabilisers?

Tim Callan, Karina Doorley, Michael Savage

forthcoming in: Fiscal Studies, 2020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11340

Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform for Young Adults: An Unconditional Quantile Regression Approach

Øystein Hernaes

revised version forthcoming in: Labour Economics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11250

Wage Inequality and Structural Change

Joanna Tyrowicz, Magdalena Smyk

published in Social Indicators Research, 2019, 141(2), 503-538

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11194

Technological Innovation and Inclusive Growth in Germany

Wim Naudé, Paula Nagler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11192

Mechanics of Replacing Benefit Systems with a Basic Income: Comparative Results from a Microsimulation Approach

James Browne, Herwig Immervoll

published in a special issue of the Journal of Economic Inequality, honouring the work of Sir Anthony “Tony” Atkinson. DOI 10.1007/s10888-017-9366-6. Also available as OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11084

Assortative Mating and Earnings Inequality in France

Nicolas Frémeaux, Arnaud Lefranc

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11071

What Really Happened to British Inequality in the Early 20th Century? Evidence from National Household Expenditure Surveys 1890–1961

Ian Gazeley, Andrew T. Newell, Kevin Reynolds, Hector Gutierrez Rufrancos

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11069

The Truly Vulnerable: Integrating Wealth into the Measurement of Poverty and Social Policy Effectiveness

Sarah Kuypers, Ive Marx

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11006

Inequality and Poverty in Greece: Changes in Times of Crisis

Eirini Andriopoulou, Alexandros Karakitsios, Panos Tsakloglou

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11005

'Inequality Is the Root of Social Evil,' or Maybe Not? Two Stories about Inequality and Public Policy

Miles Corak

published in: Canadian Public Policy, 2016, 42 (4), 367-414

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10979

Women in Top Incomes: Evidence from Sweden 1974–2013

Anne Boschini, Kristin Gunnarsson, Jesper Roine

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10882

Consumption Inequality and the Frequency of Purchases

Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Dmitri Koustas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10868

Survey Under-Coverage of Top Incomes and Estimation of Inequality: What Is the Role of the UK's SPI Adjustment?

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

Published in: Fiscal Studies, June 2018, 39 (2), 213-240 (Open Access)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10854

Perception of Corruption and Public Support for Redistribution in Latin America

Esther Hauk, Mónica Oviedo, Xavier Ramos

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10804

The Long-Awaited Rise of the Middle Class in Latin America Is Finally Happening

Maurizio Bussolo, Maryla Maliszewska, Elie Murard

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10762

Global Earnings Inequality, 1970–2015

Olle Hammar, Daniel Waldenström

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10761

Correlations of Brothers' Earnings and Intergenerational Transmission

Paul Bingley, Lorenzo Cappellari

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (2), 370 - 383

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10690

More Pensioners, Less Income Inequality? The Impact of Changing Age Composition on Inequality in Big Cities and Elsewhere

Omoniyi Alimi, David C. Maré, Jacques Poot

published in: U. Blien, K. Kourtit, P. Nijkamp & R. Stough (eds.), Modelling Aging and Migration Effects on Spatial Labor Markets, Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10677

The Long-Run Impact of Childhood Poverty and the Mediating Role of Education

Luna Bellani, Michela Bia

revised version published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A, 2019, 182 (1), 37-68

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10667

Trends and Gradients in Top Tax Elasticities: Cross-Country Evidence, 1900–2014

Enrico Rubolino, Daniel Waldenström

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10666

Tax Progressivity and Top Incomes: Evidence from Tax Reforms

Enrico Rubolino, Daniel Waldenström

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10656

Ageing Poorly? Accounting for the Decline in Earnings Inequality in Brazil, 1995-2012