IZA Discussion Papers

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. 11147

The Case for NIT+FT in Europe: An Empirical Optimal Taxation Exercise

Nizamul Islam, Ugo Colombino

revised version published in: Economic Modelling, 2018, 75, 38-69.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11094

Would a Euro's Depreciation Improve the French Economy?

Riccardo Magnani, Luca Piccoli, Martine Carré, Amedeo Spadaro

published as 'A Micro-Macro Simulation Model Applied to the French Economy: The Case of a Euro's Real Depreciation' in: In: Perali F., Scandizzo P. (eds) The New Generation of Computable General Equilibrium Models. Springer, 2018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11004

Indirect Inference with Importance Sampling: An Application to Women's Wage Growth

Robert M. Sauer, Christopher Taber

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9753

More Unequal, But More Mobile? Earnings Inequality and Mobility in OECD Countries

Andrea Garnero, Alexander Hijzen, Sébastien Martin

published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 56, 26-35

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9152

A Tax Benefit Model for Policy Evaluation in Luxembourg: LuxTaxBen

Nizamul Islam, Lennart Flood

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8897

Modelling the Impact of Direct and Indirect Taxes Using Complementary Datasets

Michael Savage, Tim Callan

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. 8756

The Finite Sample Performance of Semi- and Nonparametric Estimators for Treatment Effects and Policy Evaluation

Markus Frölich, Martin Huber, Manuel Wiesenfarth

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8685

Educational Attainment of Second-Generation Immigrants: A U.S.-Canada Comparison

Xingfei Liu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8553

Documentation IZAΨMOD v3.0: The IZA Policy Simulation Model

Max Loeffler, Andreas Peichl, Nico Pestel, Sebastian Siegloch, Eric Sommer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8548

Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models by Maximum Likelihood and the Simulated Method of Moments

Philipp Eisenhauer, James J. Heckman, Stefano Mosso

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8251

How Diverse Can Spatial Measures of Cultural Diversity Be? Results from Monte Carlo Simulations of an Agent-Based Model

Daniel Arribas-Bel, Peter Nijkamp, Jacques Poot

published in: Environment and Planning A, 2016, 48(10), 2046-2066

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8120

Can Dreams Come True? Eliminating Extreme Poverty in Africa by 2030

Mthuli Ncube, Zuzana Brixiova, Zorobabel Bicaba

revised version published as 'Can Extreme Poverty be Eliminated in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030?' in: Journal of African Development, 2017, 19 (2), 93 - 110

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8087

Five Crossroads on the Way to Basic Income: An Italian Tour

Ugo Colombino

revised version published in: Italian Economic Journal, 2015, 1 (3), 353-389

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. 7737

Changes in Income Distributions and the Role of Tax-Benefit Policy During the Great Recession: An International Perspective

Olivier Bargain, Tim Callan, Karina Doorley, Claire Keane

published in: Fiscal Studies, 2017, 38(4)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7506

Financial Support for Families with Children and its Trade-offs: Balancing Redistribution and Parental Work Incentives

Michal Myck, Anna Kurowska, Michał Kundera

published in: Baltic Journal of Economics, 2013, 13 (2)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7487

Determinants and Policy Simulation of Firms Cooperation in Innovation

Almas Heshmati, Flávio Lenz-Cesar

published in: Research Evaluation, 2015, 24(3), 293-311.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7487

Determinants and Policy Simulation of Firms Cooperation in Innovation

Almas Heshmati, Flávio Lenz-Cesar

published in: Research Evaluation, 2015, 24(3), 293-311.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7242

Using the EU-SILC to Model the Impact of the Economic Crisis on Inequality

Cathal O'Donoghue, Jason Loughrey, Karyn Morrissey

published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2013, 2:23

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6846

Family and Labor Market Choices: Requirements to Guide Effective Evidence-Based Policy

Anna Kurowska, Michal Myck, Katharina Wrohlich

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6739

In-Work Benefits for Married Couples: An Ex-Ante Evaluation of EITC and WTC Policies in Italy

Giuseppe De Luca, Claudio Rossetti, Daniela Vuri

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6679

Equilibrium Simulation with Microeconometric Models: A New Procedure with an Application to Income Support Policies

Ugo Colombino

substantially revised version published as 'A new equilibrium simulation procedure with discrete choice models' in: International Journal of Microsimulation, 2013, 6 (3), 25-49

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6679

Equilibrium Simulation with Microeconometric Models: A New Procedure with an Application to Income Support Policies

Ugo Colombino

substantially revised version published as 'A new equilibrium simulation procedure with discrete choice models' in: International Journal of Microsimulation, 2013, 6 (3), 25-49

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6583

Robust Standard Errors in Transformed Likelihood Estimation of Dynamic Panel Data Models

Kazuhiko Hayakawa, M. Hashem Pesaran

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. 6098

A Continuous Labour Supply Model in Microsimulation: A Life-Cycle Modelling Approach with Heterogeneity and Uncertainty Extension

Jinjing Li, Denisa Maria Sologon

published in: PLoS ONE, 9(11): e111903. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0111903, http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0111903

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6059

Five Issues in the Design of Income Support Mechanisms: The Case of Italy

Ugo Colombino

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6059

Five Issues in the Design of Income Support Mechanisms: The Case of Italy

Ugo Colombino

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5930

Taxes, Wages and Working Hours