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40 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17602
Gender and Top Lifetime Earnings Inequality: Ten New Facts from Brazil
Tomás R. Martinez, Antonio Martins-Neto, Ursula Mello
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17045
Lobbying for Industrialization: Theory and Evidence
Dmitry Veselov, Alexander Yarkin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16177
Job Levels and Wages
Christian Bayer, Moritz Kuhn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15437
New Perspectives on Inequality in Latin America
Manuel Fernandez Sierra, Gabriela Serrano
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14592
The Natural Resource Boom and the Uneven Fall of the Labor Share
Andrés O. Dávila, Manuel Fernandez Sierra, Hernando Zuleta
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13199
What Determines the Capital Share over the Long Run of History?
Erik Bengtsson, Enrico Rubolino, Daniel Waldenström
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13072
Induced Innovation: Evidence from China's Secondary Industry
Belton M. Fleisher, William H. McGuire, Xiaojun Wang, Min Qiang Zhao
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12473
Which Ladder to Climb? Decomposing Life Cycle Wage Dynamics
Christian Bayer, Moritz Kuhn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12046
The Race between Demand and Supply: Tinbergen's Pioneering Studies of Earnings Inequality
James J. Heckman
published in: De economist, 2019, 167, 243–258
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11827
Which Ladder to Climb? Wages of Workers by Job, Plant, and Education
Christian Bayer, Moritz Kuhn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11569
Innovation, Wages, and Polarization in China
Belton M. Fleisher, William H. McGuire, Yaqin Su, Min Qiang Zhao
revised version available
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. 11143
Immigrant Locations and Native Residential Preferences: Emerging Ghettos or New Communities?
Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Albert Saiz
published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2019, 112, 133-151
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10749
Wages, Innovation, and Employment in China
Belton M. Fleisher, William H. McGuire, Xiaojun Wang, Min Qiang Zhao
revised version
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9037
Top Incomes in Canada: Evidence from the Census
Thomas Lemieux, W. Craig Riddell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8878
The Role of Trade and Offshoring in the Determination of Child Labour
Alessandro Cigno, Giorgia Giovannetti, Laura Sabani
published in: Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 2018, 27, 267 - 292.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7865
Let's Be Selective about Migrant Self-Selection
Costanza Biavaschi, Benjamin Elsner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7244
Distributional Consequences of Capital Accumulation, Globalisation and Financialisation in the US
Marika Karanassou, Hector Sala
published in: Economic and Social Review, 2020, 51 (2), 275-303.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6921
Immigration and the Distribution of Incomes
Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn
published in: Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller (eds.): Handbook on the Economics of International Migration, 1B, 2014
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6113
A New Approach to Testing Marginal Productivity Theory
Martin Biewen, Constantin Weiser
revised version published in: Applied Economics, 2014, 46 (9), 996-1020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6020
Lifetime Earnings Inequality in Germany
Timm Bönke, Giacomo Corneo, Holger Lüthen
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33 (1), 171-208
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5880
Evolution of the Industrial Wage Structure in China Since 1980
Ohyun Kwon, Belton M. Fleisher, Deng Quheng
substantially revised version published in: Pacific Economic Review, 2015, 20(1), 17–44 (co-authored by Simon Chang)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5136
The Distribution of Earnings under Monopsonistic/polistic Competition
Jacques-François Thisse, Eric Toulemonde
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4957
Crossing the Border: Self-Selection, Earnings and Individual Migration Decisions
Simone Bertoli, Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Francesc Ortega
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 101, 75-91
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4648
Modelling the Effects of Immigration on Regional Economic Performance and the Wage Distribution: A CGE Analysis of Three EU Regions
Konstantinos Pouliakas, Deborah Roberts, Eudokia Balamou, Demetrios Psaltopoulos
published in: Regional Studies, 2014, 48(2), 318-338
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4634
Accounting for Imputed and Capital Income Flows in Income Inequality Analyses
Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka
published in: Douglas J. Besharov and Kenneth Couch (eds.), Counting the Poor: New Thinking About European Poverty Measures and Lessons for the United States, Oxford 2012, 117-142
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3560
Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality
Martin Kahanec, Klaus F. Zimmermann
substantially revised version published as 'How Skilled Immigration May Improve Economic Equality' in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2014, 3:2.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3492
The Impact of Household Capital Income on Income Inequality: A Factor Decomposition Analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA
Anna Fräßdorf, Markus M. Grabka, Johannes Schwarze
published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, 9 (1), 35 - 56
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3450
International Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Inequality
Martin Kahanec, Klaus F. Zimmermann
substantially revised version published in: Oxford Handbook on Economic Inequality, Oxford University Press, Oxford et al., 2009, 455 - 490
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3043
Item Non-Response and Imputation of Annual Labor Income in Panel Surveys from a Cross-National Perspective
Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka
published in: Janet A. Harkness et al. (eds): Survey Methods in Multicultural, Multinational, and Multiregional Contexts, Wiley & Sons, 2010
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2723
From Bottom to Top: The Entire Distribution of Market Income in Germany, 1992-2001
Stefan Bach, Giacomo Corneo, Viktor Steiner
published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2009, 55, 303-330
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2708
Will the Skill-Premium in the Netherlands Rise in the Next Decades?
Arnaud Dupuy
published in: Applied Economics, 2007, 39 (21), 2723-31
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1727
Evaluating Dominance Ranking of PSID Incomes by Various Household Attributes
Esfandiar Maasoumi, Almas Heshmati
published in: Betti and Lemmi (eds.), Advances in Income Inequality and Concentration Measures, Routledge: London, 2008
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1681
Labour Market Institutions and the Personal Distribution of Income in the OECD
Daniele Checchi, Cecilia García-Peñalosa
published in: Economica, 2010, 77 (307), 413-450
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1141
Accounting for Income Distribution Trends: A Density Function Decomposition Approach
Stephen P. Jenkins, Philippe Van Kerm
published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2005, 3(1), 43–61
IZA Discussion Paper No. 518
The Evidence on Credit Constraints in Post-Secondary Schooling
Pedro Carneiro, James J. Heckman
published in: Economic Journal, 2002, 112 (482), 705-734
IZA Discussion Paper No. 453
Removing the Veil of Ignorance in Assessing the Distributional Impacts of Social Policies
Pedro Carneiro, Karsten T. Hansen, James J. Heckman
published in: Swedish Policy Review, 2001, 8 (2), 273-301
IZA Discussion Paper No. 380
A Kaldor Matching Model of Real Wage Declines
Michael Sattinger
published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2005, 3 (2), 91-108
IZA Discussion Paper No. 40
Empirical Findings on the Swiss Migration Experience
Stefan M. Golder, Thomas Straubhaar
published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.): European Migration - What Do We Know?, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005
IZA Discussion Paper No. 29
Causes of Changing Earnings Inequality
Dennis J. Snower
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