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IZA Discussion Paper No. 13877
Gender Economics: An Assessment
Almudena Sevilla
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13820
COVID-19 and Educational Inequality: How School Closures Affect Low- and High-Achieving Students
Elisabeth Grewenig, Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann, Larissa Zierow
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13819
Learning at Home: Distance Learning Solutions and Child Development during the COVID-19 Lockdown
Hugues Champeaux, Lucia Mangiavacchi, Francesca Marchetta, Luca Piccoli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13816
Inequality and Support for Government Responses to COVID-19
Hai-Anh Dang, Edmund Malesky, Cuong Viet Nguyen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13812
Inequality, Institutions and Cooperation
Thomas Markussen, Smriti Sharma, Saurabh Singhal, Finn Tarp
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13791
School Schedule and the Gender Pay Gap
Emma Duchini, Clémentine Van Effenterre
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13786
Tax-Benefit Systems and the Gender Gap in Income
Karina Doorley, Claire Keane
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13731
Importing Inequality: Immigration and the Top 1 Percent
Arun Advani, Felix Koenig, Lorenzo Pessina, Andy Summers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13716
How Is the COVID-19 Crisis Exacerbating Socioeconomic Inequality among Palestinians in Israel?
Sami H. Miaari, Maha Sabbah-Karkabi, Amit Loewenthal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13692
The Relationship between Subjective Wellbeing and Subjective Wellbeing Inequality: Taking Ordinality and Skewness Seriously
Arthur Grimes, Stephen P. Jenkins, Florencia Tranquilli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13643
Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the CARES Act on Earnings and Inequality
Matias Cortes, Eliza Forsythe
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13625
Modern Infectious Diseases: Macroeconomic Impacts and Policy Responses
David E. Bloom, Michael Kuhn, Klaus Prettner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13611
The Long Shadow of Slavery: The Persistence of Slave Owners in Southern Law-Making
Luna Bellani, Anselm Hager, Stephan Maurer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13592
A Second Chance? Labor Market Returns to Adult Education Using School Reforms
Patrick Bennett, Richard Blundell, Kjell G. Salvanes
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13591
The Changing Composition of Academic Majors and Wage Dynamics
Natalia Kyui, Natalia Radchenko
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13577
Within-Country Poverty Convergence: Evidence from Mexico
Luis-Felipe López-Calva, Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez, Carlos Rodriguez Castelan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13557
Rising Concentration and Wage Inequality
Matias Cortes, Jeanne Tschopp
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13505
The Distributional Impact of Recurrent Immovable Property Taxation in Greece
Eirini Andriopoulou, Eleni Kanavitsa, Chrysa Leventi, Panos Tsakloglou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13460
Childhood Circumstances and Health Inequality in Old Age: Comparative Evidence from China and the United States
Xi Chen, Binjian Yan, Thomas M. Gill
forthcoming in: Social Indicators Research, 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13447
Workplace Presenteeism, Job Substitutability and Gender Inequality
Ghazala Azmat, Lena Hensvik, Olof Rosenqvist
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13421
Inequality of Opportunity in Bodyweight among Middle-Aged and Older Chinese: A Distributional Approach
Peng Nie, Lanlin Ding, Andrew M. Jones
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13387
Mentoring and Schooling Decisions: Causal Evidence
Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, Pia Pinger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13378
Inequality in Personality over the Life Cycle
Miriam Gensowski, Mette Gørtz, Stefanie Schurer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13366
Unequal Consequences of COVID-19 across Age and Income: Representative Evidence from Six Countries
Michèle Belot, Syngjoo Choi, Egon Tripodi, Eline van den Broek-Altenburg, Julian C. Jamison, Nicholas W. Papageorge
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. 13356
Reconciling Changes in Wage Inequality with Changes in College Selectivity Using a Behavioral Model
Christian Belzil, Jörgen Hansen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13326
Inequality Measurement and Tax/Transfer Policy
Patricia Apps, Ray Rees
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13317
The Contribution of Payroll Taxation to Wage Inequality in France
Antoine Bozio, Thomas Breda, Malka Guillot
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13305
Centralized Admission Systems and School Segregation: Evidence from a National Reform
Macarena Kutscher, Shanjukta Nath, Sergio Urzua
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13292
Ex Ante Inequality of Opportunity in Health among the Elderly in China: A Distributional Decomposition Analysis of Biomarkers
Lanlin Ding, Andrew M. Jones, Peng Nie
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13279
The Evolution of the US Family Income-Schooling Relationship and Educational Selectivity
Christian Belzil, Jörgen Hansen
forthcoming in: Journal of Applied Econometrics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13267
Automation, Globalization and Vanishing Jobs: A Labor Market Sorting View
Ester Faia, Sébastien Laffitte, Maximilian Mayer, Gianmarco Ottaviano
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13264
The Impacts of COVID-19 on Minority Unemployment: First Evidence from April 2020 CPS Microdata
Kenneth A. Couch, Robert W. Fairlie, Huanan Xu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13249
Social Stability Challenged: Pandemics, Inequality and Policy Responses
Cristiano Perugini, Marko Vladisavljevic
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13235
Modelling the Distributional Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis
Cathal O'Donoghue, Denisa Maria Sologon, Iryna Kyzyma, John McHale
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13222
The Insights and Illusions of Consumption Measurements
Erich Battistin, Michele De Nadai, Nandini Krishnan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13212
Workforce Composition, Productivity and Pay: The Role of Firms in Wage Inequality
Chiara Criscuolo, Alexander Hijzen, Cyrille Schwellnus, Erling Barth, Wen-Hao Chen, Richard Fabling, Priscilla Fialho, Katarzyna Grabska, Ryo Kambayashi, Timo Leidecker, Oskar Nordström Skans, Capucine Riom, Duncan Roth, Balazs Stadler, Richard Upward, Wouter Zwysen
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. 13183
Inequality in the Impact of the Coronavirus Shock: Evidence from Real Time Surveys
Abigail Adams-Prassl, Teodora Boneva, Marta Golin, Christopher Rauh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13179
Inequality and Panel Income Changes: Conditions for Possibilities and Impossibilities
Robert Duval Hernández, Gary S. Fields, George H. Jakubson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13175
Wage Differentials, Bargaining Protocols, and Trade Unionism in Mid-Twentieth Century American Labor Markets
John Pencavel
forthcoming in the Industrial and Labor Relations Review
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13157
Are Universities Important for Explaining Unequal Participation in Student Mobility? A Comparison between Germany, Hungary, Italy and the UK
Sylke V. Schnepf, Elena Bastianelli, Zsuzsa Blaskó
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13124
Inequality in Socio-Emotional Skills: A Cross-Cohort Comparison
Orazio Attanasio, Richard Blundell, Gabriella Conti, Giacomo Mason
Published in: Journal of Public Economics, online 30 March 2020.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13100
Cream Skimming by Health Care Providers and Inequality in Health Care Access: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Anna Werbeck, Ansgar Wübker, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
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. 13041
Short and Long-Run Labor Market Effects of Developing Country Exports: Evidence from Bangladesh
Raymond Robertson, Deeksha Kokas, Diego Cardozo Medeiros, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13016
Hours Worked and the U.S. Distribution of Real Annual Earnings 1976–2016
Iván Fernández-Val, Franco Peracchi, Aico van Vuuren, Francis Vella
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13008
Buy Flexible, Pay More: The Role of Temporary Contracts on Wage Inequality
Andrea Albanese, Giovanni Gallo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13003
Wage Inequality in Germany after the Minimum Wage Introduction
Mario Bossler, Thorsten Schank
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12998
Recoupling Economic and Social Prosperity
Katharina Lima de Miranda, Dennis J. Snower
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12990
Between Firm Changes in Earnings Inequality: The Dominant Role of Industry Effects
John C. Haltiwanger, James R. Spletzer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12983
Ask and You Shall Receive? Gender Differences in Regrades in College
Cher Hsuehhsiang Li, Basit Zafar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12972
Satisfaction with Life, Happiness, and Inequality – a Pseudo-Panel Study
Søren Jensen, Peder J. Pedersen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12971
Long-Run Trends in the U.S. SES-Achievement Gap
Eric A. Hanushek, Paul E. Peterson, Laura M. Talpey, Ludger Woessmann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12963
Going Beyond GDP with a Parsimonious Indicator: Inequality-Adjusted Healthy Lifetime Income
David E. Bloom, Victoria Y. Fan, Vadim Kufenko, Osondu Ogbuoji, Klaus Prettner, Gavin Yamey
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12950
Decomposing US Income Inequality à La Shapley: Race Matters, but Gender Too
Frédéric Chantreuil, Kévin Fourrey, Isabelle Lebon, Therese Rebiere
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12942
Do Cash Windfalls Affect Wages? Evidence from R&D Grants to Small Firms
Sabrina T. Howell, J. David Brown
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. 12914
The Impact of a Minimum Wage Change on the Distribution of Wages and Household Income
Paul Redmond, Karina Doorley, Seamus McGuinness
Forthcoming in Oxford Economic Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12912
The Effect of Unfair Chances and Gender Discrimination on Labor Supply
Nickolas Gagnon, Kristof Bosmans, Arno Riedl
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. 12873
Health Inequality among Chinese Older Adults: The Role of Childhood Circumstances
Binjian Yan, Xi Chen, Thomas M. Gill
forthcoming in: Journal of The Economics of Ageing, 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12821
Firms' Wage Structures, Workers' Fairness Perceptions, Job Satisfaction and Turnover Intentions: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
Jens Mohrenweiser, Christian Pfeifer
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. 12776
Improving Employment and Earnings in 21st Century Labor Markets: An Introduction
Erica L. Groshen, Harry J. Holzer
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. 12750
Recruit to Reject? Harvard and African American Applicants
Peter Arcidiacono, Josh Kinsler, Tyler Ransom
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12740
The Intergenerational Transmission of Health in the United States: A Latent Variables Analysis
Timothy J. Halliday, Bhashkar Mazumder, Ashley Wong
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. 12661
Changing Returns to Occupational Skill and Women's Wages
Felix Schran
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12647
Occupation Growth, Skill Prices, and Wage Inequality
Michael Johannes Böhm, Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Felix Schran
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12623
Climate Change, Inequality, and Human Migration
Michał Burzyńskia, Christoph Deuster, Frédéric Docquier, Jaime de Melo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12608
Catching up Is Hard to Do: Undergraduate Prestige, Elite Graduate Programs, and the Earnings Premium
Joni Hersch
forthcoming in: Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12553
Economic Polarization and Antisocial Behavior: An Experiment
Maria Bigoni, Stefania Bortolotti, Efşan Nas Özen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12529
The 2011 Break in the Part-Time Indicator and the Evolution of Wage Inequality in Germany
Bernd Fitzenberger, Arnim Seidlitz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12475
Repeated Shocks and Preferences for Redistribution
Giovanni Gualtieri, Marcella Nicolini, Fabio Sabatini
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 167: 53-71. 10.1016/j.jebo.2019.09.016
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12473
Which Ladder to Climb? Decomposing Life Cycle Wage Dynamics
Christian Bayer, Moritz Kuhn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12472
Is Employment Polarization Informative about Wage Inequality and Is Employment Really Polarizing?
Jennifer Hunt, Ryan Nunn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12468
Higher Tax and Less Work: An Optimal Response to Relative Income Concern
Felix FitzRoy, Jim Jin, Michael A. Nolan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12451
Pre- and Post-Birth Components of Intergenerational Persistence in Health and Longevity: Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees
Evelina Björkegren, Mikael Lindahl, Mårten Palme, Emilia Simeonova
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12436
Societal Inequalities Amplify Gender Gaps in Math
Thomas Breda, Elyès Jouini, Clotilde Napp
published in: Science Magazine, 2018, 359 (6381), 1219-1220
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12436
Societal Inequalities Amplify Gender Gaps in Math
Thomas Breda, Elyès Jouini, Clotilde Napp
published in: Science Magazine, 2018, 359 (6381), 1219-1220
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12434
Individual Consequences of Occupational Decline
Per-Anders Edin, Tiernan Evans, Georg Graetz, Sofia Hernnäs, Guy Michaels
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12428
Digitalization and the Future of Work: Macroeconomic Consequences
Melanie Arntz, Terry Gregory, Ulrich Zierahn
forthcoming in: Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12390
The Measurement of Health Inequalities: Does Status Matter?
Joan Costa-Font, Frank A. Cowell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12350
The Distribution of Well-Being among Europeans
Andrea Brandolini, Alfonso Rosolia
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12316
Life Expectancy and Parental Education
Mathias Huebener
published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2019, Vol. 232, 351-365
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12302
Like (Grand)Parent, like Child? Multigenerational Mobility across the EU
Marco Colagrossi, Beatrice d'Hombres, Sylke V. Schnepf
revised version forthcoming in: European Economic Review
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12293
Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor
Daron Acemoglu, Pascual Restrepo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12292
The Wrong Kind of AI? Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Labor Demand
Daron Acemoglu, Pascual Restrepo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12273
"And Yet, It Moves": Intergenerational Mobility in Italy
Paolo Acciari, Alberto Polo, Giovanni L. Violante
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12246
Access to Imported Intermediates and Intra-Firm Wage Inequality
Ying Ge, Tony Fang, Yeheng Jiang
forthcoming in: World Economy, 2019.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12227
Managing the Impact of Climate on Migration: Evidence from Mexico
Isabelle Chort, Maëlys de la Rupelle
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12218
The Race against the Robots and the Fallacy of the Giant Cheesecake: Immediate and Imagined Impacts of Artificial Intelligence
Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12214
Firms and Wage Inequality in Central and Eastern Europe
Iga Magda, Jan Gromadzki, Simone Moriconi
forthcoming in: Journal of Comparative Economics
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