IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11618

Labor Market and Distributional Effects of an Increase in the Retirement Age

Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Anna Hammerschmid, Michael Peters

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11584

Two Stories of Wage Dynamics in Latin America: Different Policies, Different Outcomes

Gustavo J. Canavire Bacarreza, Luis C. Carvajal-Osorio

published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2020, 41, 128–168,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11522

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

Rolf Aaberge, Anthony B. Atkinson, Sebastian Königs

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11519

Employer Power, Labor Saving Technical Change, and Inequality

Nancy H. Chau, Ravi Kanbur

published in: Kaushik Basu, Maitreesh Ghatak, Kenneth Kletzer, Sudipto Mundle, and Eric Verhoogen (eds.), Development, Distribution, and Markets, Oxford University Press, 2021

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11502

Minimum Wages and the Gender Gap in Pay: New Evidence from the UK and Ireland

Olivier B. Bargain, Karina Doorley, Philippe Van Kerm

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, 65 (3), 514-539

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11493

Smooth Income Tax Schedules: Derivation and Consequences

Diana Estévez Schwarz, Eric Sommer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11475

How Should Capital Be Taxed? Theory and Evidence from Sweden

Spencer Bastani, Daniel Waldenström

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11440

Demographic Change and the European Income Distribution

Mathias Dolls, Karina Doorley, Alari Paulus, Hilmar Schneider, Eric Sommer

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2019, 17 (3), 337 - 357

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11419

The Returns to Schooling Unveiled

Ana Rute Cardoso, Paulo Guimaraes, Pedro Portugal, Hugo Reis

part 1 of this paper published online as 'What Lies Behind the Returns to Schooling: The Role of Labor Market Sorting and Worker Heterogeneity' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 22 August 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11294

Nonseparable Sample Selection Models with Censored Selection Rules: An Application to Wage Decompositions

Iván Fernández-Val, Aico van Vuuren, Francis Vella

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11275

Insurance, Redistribution, and the Inequality of Lifetime Income

Peter Haan, Daniel Kemptner, Victoria L. Prowse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11246

The Short-Term Distributional Effects of the German Minimum Wage Reform

Marco Caliendo, Alexandra Fedorets, Malte Preuß, Carsten Schröder, Linda Wittbrodt

substantially revised version published as 'The short- and medium-term distributional effects of the German minimum wage reform' in: Empirical Economics, 2023, 64, 1149 - 1175

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11220

The Price of Polarization: Estimating Task Prices under Routine-Biased Technical Change

Michael Johannes Böhm

revised version published in: Quantitative Economics, 2020, 11, 761-799.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11121

The Rising Longevity Gap by Lifetime Earnings: Distributional Implications for the Pension System

Peter Haan, Daniel Kemptner, Holger Lüthen

published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2020, 17, 100199

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11073

Spatial-Ethnic Inequalities: The Role of Location in the Estimation of Ethnic Wage Differentials

Simonetta Longhi

published as 'Does Geographical Location Matter for Ethnic Wage Gaps?' in: Journal of Regional Science, 2020, 60 (3), 538-557