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382 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6986
Kindergarten for All: Long Run Effects of a Universal Intervention
Nina Drange, Tarjei Havnes, Astrid M. J. Sandsør
published in Economics of Education Review Volume 53, August 2016, Pages 164-181
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6981
Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution
Thomas Siedler, Bettina Sonnenberg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6964
Aggregate Savings and External Imbalances in China
Dennis T. Yang
published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2012, 26 (4), 125–146.
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. 6798
Migration Elasticities, Fiscal Federalism and the Ability of States to Redistribute Income
Seth H. Giertz, Mehmet S. Tosun
published in: National Tax Journal, 2012, 65, 1069-92
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6721
Redistributive Preferences, Redistribution, and Inequality: Evidence from a Panel of OECD Countries
Andreas Kuhn
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. 6665
Migration, Redistribution and the Universal Welfare Model
Torben M. Andersen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6643
What Determines the Share of Labour in National Income? A Cross-Country Analysis
Marta Guerriero, Kunal Sen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6641
Lifetime versus Annual Tax Progressivity: Sweden, 1968–2009
Niklas Bengtsson, Bertil Holmlund, Daniel Waldenström
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6621
Conflict, Food Price Shocks, and Food Insecurity: The Experience of Afghan Households
Anna D'Souza, Dean Jolliffe
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6558
The Gender Pay Gap in the Australian Private Sector: Is Selection Relevant across the Wage Distribution?
Yekaterina Chzhen, Karen A. Mumford, Catia Nicodemo
published in: Economic Record, 2013, 89 (286), 367–381
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. 6503
Change in the Distribution of House Prices across Spanish Cities
Catia Nicodemo, Josep M. Raya
published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2012, 42 (4), 739–748
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6503
Change in the Distribution of House Prices across Spanish Cities
Catia Nicodemo, Josep M. Raya
published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2012, 42 (4), 739–748
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6501
Sorting and Local Wage and Skill Distributions in France
Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon, Sébastien Roux
published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2012, 42 (6), 913-930
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6501
Sorting and Local Wage and Skill Distributions in France
Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon, Sébastien Roux
published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2012, 42 (6), 913-930
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. 6473
A Theory of Political Entrenchment
Gilles Saint-Paul, Davide Ticchi, Andrea Vindigni
Economic Journal, 126, 1238-1263
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6449
The Regional Distribution of Public Employment: Theory and Evidence
Sebastian G. Kessing, Chiara Strozzi
revised and updated version published in: Regional Studies, 2017, 51 (7), 1100-1114
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6428
The Gender Wage Gap by Education in Italy
Chiara Mussida, Matteo Picchio
published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2014, 12 (1), 117-147
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6397
Decomposing the Composition Effect
Christoph Rothe
published in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics
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. 6364
Misspecification Testing in a Class of Conditional Distributional Models
Christoph Rothe, Dominik Wied
published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2013, 108 (501), 314-324
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6364
Misspecification Testing in a Class of Conditional Distributional Models
Christoph Rothe, Dominik Wied
published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2013, 108 (501), 314-324
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6352
The Size Distribution Across All "Cities": A Unifying Approach
Kristian Giesen, Jens Suedekum
substantially revised version pubslished as 'City age and city size' in: European Economic Review, 2014, 71(Nov), 193-208. [Final version]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6285
Unequal Access to Higher Education in the Czech Republic: The Role of Spatial Distribution of Universities
Michal Franta, Martin Guzi
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. 6251
Warrant Economics, Call-Put Policy Options and the Fallacies of Economic Theory
John Hatgioannides, Marika Karanassou
forthcoming as 'Warrant Economics, Call-Put Policy Options, and the Great Recession' in: Review of Political Economy, 2015
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6166
It's the Opportunity Cost, Stupid! How Self-Employment Responds to Financial Incentives of Return, Risk and Skew
Peter Berkhout, Joop Hartog, Mirjam C. van Praag
published in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 40 (2), 249-268
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. 6111
Emigration and Wages: The EU Enlargement Experiment
Benjamin Elsner
published in: Journal of International Economics, 2013, 91(1), 154-163
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6076
Partial Distributional Policy Effects
Christoph Rothe
published in: Econometrica, 2012, 80 (5), 2269-2301
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. 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. 5932
The Trend over Time of the Gender Wage Gap in Italy
Chiara Mussida, Matteo Picchio
published in: Empirical Economics, 2014, 46 (3), 1081-1110
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5910
Tax Policy and Income Inequality in the U.S., 1978-2009: A Decomposition Approach
Olivier Bargain, Mathias Dolls, Herwig Immervoll, Dirk Neumann, Andreas Peichl, Nico Pestel, Sebastian Siegloch
substantially revised version available as IZA DP 7190
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5909
Income Inequality, Mobility, and the Welfare State: A Political Economy Model
Luca Bossi, Gulcin Gumus
revised version published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2013, [View]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5834
Lower and Upper Bounds of Unfair Inequality: Theory and Evidence for Germany and the US
Judith Niehues, Andreas Peichl
revised version published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2014, 43 (1), 73-99
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5717
The Welfare Impact of Price Changes on Household Welfare and Inequality 1999-2010
Jason Loughrey, Cathal O'Donoghue
published in: Economic and Social Review, 2012, 43 (1), 31-66
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5708
The Aftermath of Reunification: Sectoral Transition, Gender, and Rising Wage Inequality in East Germany
Karsten Kohn, Dirk Antonczyk
published in: Economics of Transition, 2013, 21 (1), 73-110
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5699
Biased Perceptions of Income Distribution and Preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from a Survey Experiment
Guillermo Cruces, Ricardo Perez Truglia, Martin Tetaz
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 98, 100-112
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5699
Biased Perceptions of Income Distribution and Preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from a Survey Experiment
Guillermo Cruces, Ricardo Perez Truglia, Martin Tetaz
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 98, 100-112
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5608
Optimal Commodity Taxation and Redistribution within Households
Olivier Bargain, Olivier Donni
published in: Economica, 2014, 81 (321), 48-62
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5514
Inequality, Inequity Aversion, and the Provision of Public Goods
Felix Kölle, Dirk Sliwka, Nannan Zhou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5486
The Shape of the Income Distribution and Economic Growth: Evidence from Swedish Labor Market Regions
Dan-Olof Rooth, Anders Stenberg
published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2012, 59 (2), 196-223
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5440
Tax-Benefit Systems in Europe and the US: Between Equity and Efficiency
Olivier Bargain, Mathias Dolls, Dirk Neumann, Andreas Peichl, Sebastian Siegloch
revised version split into 2 parts which are published in International Tax and Public Finance (also available as IZA DP 7215) and Annals of Economics and Statistics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5388
Fair and Efficient Taxation under Partial Control: Theory and Evidence
Erwin Ooghe, Andreas Peichl
revised version available as CESifo Working Paper 3518
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5383
Why Are Household Incomes More Unequally Distributed in China than in Russia?
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Shi Li, Ludmila Nivorozhkina
published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2011, 35 (5), 897-920
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