IZA Discussion Papers

published in: Kjell Törnblom and Riel Vermunt (eds.), Distributive and Procedural Justice: Research and Social Applications. London, UK: Ashgate, 2007

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2578

The Vanishing Bequest Tax: The Comparative Evolution of Bequest Taxation in Historical Perspective

Graziella Bertocchi

revised version published in: Economics and Politics, 2011, 23 (1), 107 - 131

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2565

A New Framework for the Analysis of Inequality

Flavio Cunha, James J. Heckman

published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2008, 12 (Supplement 2), 315-354

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2556

Product Market Integration and Labour Markets: Aggregate Gains at the Cost of More Inequality?

Torben M. Andersen, Allan Sørensen

published as 'Product Market Integration, Rents and Wage Inequality' in: Review of International Economics, 2011, 19 (4), 595 - 608

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2517

Inequality of Learning in Industrialised Countries

John Micklewright, Sylke V. Schnepf

published in: Stephen P. Jenkins and John Micklewright (eds.), Inequality and Poverty Re-Examined, Oxford: OUP, 2007

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2430

Labour Market Regulation in the EU-15: Causes and Consequences – A Survey

W. Stanley Siebert

published in: R. Vaubel and P. Bernholz (eds.), Political Competition and Economic Regulation, London: Routledge 2007

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2430

Labour Market Regulation in the EU-15: Causes and Consequences – A Survey

W. Stanley Siebert

published in: R. Vaubel and P. Bernholz (eds.), Political Competition and Economic Regulation, London: Routledge 2007

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2425

Inequality in Individual Mortality and Economic Conditions Earlier in Life

Gerard J. van den Berg, Maarten Lindeboom, Marta López

published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2009, 69 (9), 1360–1367

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2352

The Impact of Immigration on the Structure of Male Wages: Theory and Evidence from Britain

Marco Manacorda, Alan Manning, Jonathan Wadsworth

updated version published as 'The Impact of Immigration on the Structure of Wages: Theory and Evidence from Britain' in Journal of the American Economic Association, 2012, 10 (1), 120 - 151

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2344

Inequality and Growth in Rural China: Does Higher Inequality Impede Growth?

Dwayne Benjamin, Loren Brandt, John T. Giles

published as 'Did Higher Inequality Impede Growth in Rural China?' in: Economic Journal, 2011, 121 (557), 1281-1309

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2336

Does Foreign Direct Investment Affect Wage Inequality? An Empirical Investigation

Paolo Figini, Holger Görg

published in: World Economy, 2011, 34 (9), 1455-1475

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2327

Are Earnings Inequality and Mobility Overstated? The Impact of Non-Classical Measurement Error

Peter T. Gottschalk, Minh Huynh

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 92 (2), 302 - 315

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2312

The Social Contract with Endogenous Sentiments

Matteo Cervellati, Joan Esteban, Laurence Kranich

revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 95 (9-10), 612-627

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2270

The Distribution of Total Work in the EU and US

Michael C. Burda, Daniel S. Hamermesh, Philippe Weil

published in: Tito Boeri, Michael Burda, Francis Kramarz (eds.), Working Hours and Job Sharing in the EU and USA: Are Americans Crazy? Are Europeans Lazy? Oxford Univ. Press, 2008

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2235

Earnings Inequality and Market Work in Husband-Wife Families

John H. Pencavel

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2007, 26, 1-37

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2225

Consensual and Conflictual Democratization

Matteo Cervellati, Piergiuseppe Fortunato, Uwe Sunde

revised version published in: B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2012, 12 (1), Article 33

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2223

Globalisation, Inequality and Poverty Relationships: A Cross Country Evidence

Marcel Neutel, Almas Heshmati

published in: Vandana Sjajan (ed.), Globalization and Income Inequality, The ICFAI University Press: Hyderabad, 2010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2181

Wage Dispersion, Markets and Institutions: The Effects of the Boom in Education on the Wage Structure

Erling Barth, Claudio Lucifora

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2173

An Age Perspective on Economic Well-Being and Social Protection in Nine OECD Countries

Thai-Thanh Dang, Herwig Immervoll, Daniela Mantovani, Kristian Orsini, Holly Sutherland

also available as OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2119

Punishment, Inequality and Emotions

David Masclet, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published as 'Punishment, inequality, and welfare : a public good experiment' in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2008, 31 (3), 475–502.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2116

Wage Rigidity or Fiscal Redistribution? The Unemployment Bias of Time Consistent Redistributive Policies

Etienne Lehmann

revised version published as 'Manon Domingues dos santos and Etienne Lehmann, 'Wage Rigidity or Fiscal Redistribution: The credibility Issue' in: Economics Bulletin, 2012, 32 (4), 2801-2807

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2114

The Impact of Brazil's Tax-Benefit System on Inequality and Poverty

Herwig Immervoll, Horacio Levy, José Ricardo Nogueira, Cathal O'Donoghue, Rozane Bezerra de Siqueira

published in: Klasen, S. and F. Nowak-Lehmann (eds.), Poverty, Inequality, and Policy in Latin America, MIT Press, 2009

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2098

Rising Wage Dispersion, After All! The German Wage Structure at the Turn of the Century

Karsten Kohn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2084

Income Inequality and Job Satisfaction of Full-Time Employees in Germany

Christoph Wunder, Johannes Schwarze

published in: Journal of Income Distribution, 2009, 18(2), 70-91

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2062

Incentives for Managers and Inequality Among Workers: Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment

Oriana Bandiera, Iwan Barankay, Imran Rasul

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007, 122 (2), 729-773

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2050

Ethnic Specialization and Earnings Inequality: Why Being a Minority Hurts but Being a Big Minority Hurts More

Martin Kahanec

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2008

Earnings Inequality in India: Has the Rise of Caste and Religion Based Politics in India Had an Impact?

Sumon K. Bhaumik, Manisha Chakrabarty

published in: A. Shariff and R. Besant (eds.), Handbook of Muslims in India, Oxford University Press, 2010, New Delhi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2003

Income Mobility of Individuals in China and the United States

Niny Khor, John H. Pencavel

published in: Economics of Transition, 2006, 14 (3), 417-458

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1957

Product Markets and Paychecks: Deregulation's Effect on the Compensation Structure in Banking

Abigail Wozniak

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60 (2), 246-267

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1938

American Exceptionalism in a New Light: A Comparison of Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in the Nordic Countries, the United Kingdom and the United States

Markus Jäntti, Bernt Bratsberg, Knut Røed, Oddbjørn Raaum, Robin Naylor, Eva Österbacka, Anders Björklund, Tor Eriksson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1925

The Social Impact of Globalization in the Developing Countries

Eddy Lee, Marco Vivarelli

published in: International Labour Review, 2006, 145(3), 167-184

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1901

Does Educational Tracking Affect Performance and Inequality? Differences-in-Differences Evidence across Countries

Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (510), C63-C76

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1891

Regional Income Stratification in Unified Germany Using a Gini Decomposition Approach

Joachim R. Frick, Jan Goebel

published in: Regional Studies, 2008, 42(4), 555-577

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1872

Two Faces of the ICT Revolution: Desegregation and Minority-Majority Earnings Inequality

Martin Kahanec

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1863

International Capital Market Integration, Educational Choice and Economic Growth

Hartmut Egger, Peter Egger, Josef Falkinger, Volker Grossmann

published as 'The Impact of Capital Market Integration on Educational Choice and the Consequences for Economic Growth' in: World Economy, 2010, 33 (10), 1241-1268

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1824

Household Incomes and Redistribution in the European Union: Quantifying the Equalising Properties of Taxes and Benefits

Herwig Immervoll, Horacio Levy, Christine Lietz, Daniela Mantovani, Cathal O'Donoghue, Holly Sutherland, Gerlinde Verbist

published in: Papadimitriou, D.B. (ed.), The Distributional Effects of Government Spending and Taxation, Palgrave MacMillan 2006

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1763

Educational Qualifications and Wage Inequality: Evidence for Europe

Santiago Budría, Pedro T. Pereira

published in: Revista de Economía Aplicada, 2011, 56 (19), 5-34

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1724

Institutions, Markets and Men's and Women's Wage Inequality: Evidence from Ukraine

Ina Ganguli, Katherine Terrell

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2006, 34 (2), 200-227

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. 1676

Should the U.S. Have Locked the Heaven's Door? Reassessing the Benefits of the Postwar Immigration

Xavier Chojnicki, Frédéric Docquier, Lionel Ragot

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (1), 317-359

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1637

The Public Pay Gap in Britain: Small Differences That (Don't?) Matter

Fabien Postel-Vinay, Hélène Turon

published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (523), 1460-1503

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1582

Education and Inequality in Greece

Panos Tsakloglou, Ioannis Cholezas

published in: Asplund, R. and E. Barth (eds.), Education and wage inequality in Europe: A literature review, 203-240, ETLA: Helsinki, 2005

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1571

The Benefits of Separating Early Retirees from the Unemployed: Simulation Results for Belgian Wage Earners

Raphaël Desmet, Alain Jousten, Sergio Perelman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1554

Wage Differences Between Men and Women in Austria: Evidence from 1983 and 1997

René Böheim, Helmut Hofer, Christine Zulehner

published as 'Wage differences between Austrian men and women: semper idem?' in: Empirica, 2007, 34 (3), 213-29

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1530

The Age of Discontent: Italian Households at the Beginning of the Decade

Tito Boeri, Andrea Brandolini

published in: Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, 2004, 63 (3-4), 449-487

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1525

Wage Inequality in Post-Reform Mexico

Jim Airola, Chinhui Juhn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1486

Social Security in Belgium: Distributive Outcomes

Alain Jousten, Mathieu Lefèbvre, Sergio Perelman, Pierre Pestieau

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1452

Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in Urban China, 1986-2000

Xin Meng, Bob Gregory, Youjuan Wang

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2005, 33 (4), 710-729

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1450

Hobbes to Rousseau: Inequality, Institutions, and Development

Matteo Cervellati, Piergiuseppe Fortunato, Uwe Sunde

revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118(531), 1354-1384

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1448

Impact of Income Growth and Economic Reform on Nutrition Intake in Urban China: 1986-2000

Xin Meng, Xiaodong Gong, Youjuan Wang

published as 'Impact of Income Growth and Economic Reform on Nutrition Availability in Urban China: 1986–2000' in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2009, 57 (2), 261-295

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1421

The Effect of Firm-Level Contracts on the Structure of Wages: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

David Card, Sara de la Rica

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2006, 59 (4), 573-592

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1402

The Dispersion of Employees’ Wage Increases and Firm Performance

Christian Grund, Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen

revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2008, 61 (4), 485-501

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1385

The Effects of Unions on Wage Inequality: The Italian Case in the 1990s

Daniele Checchi, Laura Pagani

published in: Politica Economica, 2005, 1, 41-68

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1365

Income Inequality and Gender in New Zealand, 1998-2003

Kerry L. Papps

published in: New Zealand Economic Papers, 2010, 44 (3), 217-229

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1338

Growth, Inequality and Poverty Relationships

Almas Heshmati

published in: A. Heshmati ; A. Tausch (eds.), Roadmap to Bangalore? Globalization, the EU Lisbon Process and the Structure of Global Inequality, Hauppauge and New York, 2007, 109-137

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1338

Growth, Inequality and Poverty Relationships

Almas Heshmati

published in: A. Heshmati ; A. Tausch (eds.), Roadmap to Bangalore? Globalization, the EU Lisbon Process and the Structure of Global Inequality, Hauppauge and New York, 2007, 109-137

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1317

Gender Equality in Educational Achievement: An East-West Comparison

Sylke V. Schnepf

revised version published in : Schnepf (ed.): Women in Central and Eastern Europe: Measuring Gender Inequality Differently. Saarbruecken, Germany: Verlag Mueller, 2007

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1312

Health and Wealth of Elderly Couples: Causality Tests Using Dynamic Panel Data Models

Pierre-Carl Michaud, Arthur van Soest

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27 (5), 1312-1325

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1307

Regional Income Inequality in Selected Large Countries

Almas Heshmati

published in: A. Heshmati (ed.), Global Trends in Income Inequality, Hauppauge and New York, 2007, 121-155

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1285

Technical Change and the Wage Structure During the Second Industrial Revolution: Evidence from the Merchant Marine, 1865-1912

Aimee Chin, Chinhui Juhn, Peter Thompson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1283

On the Inefficiency of Inequality

Maurice Schiff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1277

The Relationship between Income Inequality, Poverty and Globalisation

Almas Heshmati

published in: Nissanke and Thorbecke (eds.), The Impact of Globalization on the Worlds Poor, Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2006

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1271

Continental and Sub-Continental Income Inequality

Almas Heshmati

published in: ICFAI Journal of Applied Economics, 2005, 5 (1), 7-52

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1271

Continental and Sub-Continental Income Inequality

Almas Heshmati

published in: ICFAI Journal of Applied Economics, 2005, 5 (1), 7-52

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1268

Labor Market Institutions, Wages, and Investment

Jörn-Steffen Pischke

published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2005, 51 (1), 47-75

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1267

The World Distribution of Income and Income Inequality

Almas Heshmati

published as "The World Distribution of Income and Income Inequality: A Review of the Economic Literature" in: Journal of World-Systems Research, 2006, 12 (1), 61-107

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1267

The World Distribution of Income and Income Inequality

Almas Heshmati

published as "The World Distribution of Income and Income Inequality: A Review of the Economic Literature" in: Journal of World-Systems Research, 2006, 12 (1), 61-107

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1263

Data Issues and Databases Used in Analysis of Growth, Poverty and Economic Inequality

Almas Heshmati

revised version published in: A. Heshmati (ed.), Global Trends in Income Inequality, Hauppauge, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2007

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1223

One or Many Kuznets Curves? Short and Long Run Effects of the Impact of Skill-Biased Technological Change on Income Inequality

Gianluca Grimalda, Marco Vivarelli

published in: Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2010, 20 (2), 265-306

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1221

A Review of Decomposition of Income Inequality

Almas Heshmati

revised version published in: A. Heshmati (Ed), Global Trends in Income Inequality, Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2007, 27-48

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1219

Inequalities and Their Measurement

Almas Heshmati

published in: A. Heshmati (Ed), Global Trends in Income Inequality, Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2007, 11-25

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1219

Inequalities and Their Measurement

Almas Heshmati

published in: A. Heshmati (Ed), Global Trends in Income Inequality, Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2007, 11-25

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1189

Occupational Mobility and Wage Inequality

Gueorgui Kambourov, Iourii Manovskii

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2009, 76 (2), 731-759

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1189

Occupational Mobility and Wage Inequality

Gueorgui Kambourov, Iourii Manovskii

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2009, 76 (2), 731-759

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. 1094

The Self-Selection of Migrant Workers Revisited

Eran Yashiv

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1060

Complex Production Processes and Wage Inequality

Tuomas Pekkarinen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1049

Using Analysis of Gini (ANoGi) for Detecting Whether Two Sub-Samples Represent the Same Universe: The SOEP Experience

Joachim R. Frick, Jan Goebel, Edna Schechtman, Gert G. Wagner, Shlomo Yitzhaki

published in: Sociological Methods and Research, 2006, 34 (4), 427-468

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1024

Noncognitive Abilities and Within-Group Wage Inequality

Hartmut Egger, Volker Grossmann

published as "Non-Routine Tasks, Restructuring of Firms, and Wage Inequality Within and Between Skill-Groups" in: Journal of Economics, 2005, 86 (3), 197-225

IZA Discussion Paper No. 974

Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State? A Revised Version

Johannes Schwarze, Marco Härpfer

published in: Journal of Socio-Economics, 2007, 36 (2), 233-249

IZA Discussion Paper No. 909

Firm Heterogeneity in Capital/Labor Ratios and Wage Inequality

Marco Leonardi

published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (518), 375-398

IZA Discussion Paper No. 908

Product Demand Shifts and Wage Inequality

Marco Leonardi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 907

Supply and Demand, Allocation and Wage Inequality: An International Comparison

Arnaud Dupuy, Lex Borghans

published in: Applied Economics, 2005, 37 (9), 1073-1088

IZA Discussion Paper No. 904

Trends in Income Inequality, Pro-Poor Income Growth and Income Mobility

Stephen P. Jenkins, Philippe Van Kerm

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2006, 58 (3), 531-548

IZA Discussion Paper No. 893

Skill-Biased Transition: The Role of Markets, Institutions, and Technological Change

Klara Sabirianova Peter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 886

On-the-Job Search in a Matching Model with Heterogenous Jobs and Workers

Juan J. Dolado, Marcel Jansen, Juan F. Jimeno

published in: Economic Journal, 2009, 119 (534), 200-228

IZA Discussion Paper No. 854

Income Satisfaction Inequality and its Causes

Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Bernard M. S. van Praag

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2003, 1 (2), 107-127

IZA Discussion Paper No. 841

Skill-Biased Technical Change in U.S. Manufacturing: A General Index Approach

Badi H. Baltagi, Daniel P. Rich

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2005, 126 (2), 549-570

IZA Discussion Paper No. 808

Remittances and Inequality: A Dynamic Migration Model

Frédéric Docquier, Hillel Rapoport

new version published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2010, 8 (2), 187-200

IZA Discussion Paper No. 789

Recruitment and Pay at the Establishment Level: Gender Segregation and the Wage Gap in Portugal

José António Cabral Vieira, Ana Rute Cardoso, Miguel Portela

published as 'Gender segregation and the wage gap in Portugal: An analysis at the establishment level' in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2005, 3 (2), 145-168

IZA Discussion Paper No. 763

Estimation of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson Inequality Indices from Complex Survey Data

Martin Biewen, Stephen P. Jenkins

revised version published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2006, 68 (3), 371-383

IZA Discussion Paper No. 686

Permanent and Transitory Wage Inequality of British Men, 1975-2001: Year, Age and Cohort Effects

Adriaan Kalwij, Rob Alessie

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2007, 22 (6), 1063 - 1093

IZA Discussion Paper No. 685

Do We Need Computer Skills to Use a Computer? Evidence from Britain

Lex Borghans, Bas ter Weel

published in: Labour, 2006, 20 (3), 505-532