IZA Discussion Papers

published in: U. Blien, K. Kourtit, P. Nijkamp & R. Stough (eds.), Modelling Aging and Migration Effects on Spatial Labor Markets, Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10676

Returns to Postgraduate Education in Portugal: Holding on to a Higher Ground?

Andre Almeida, Hugo Figueiredo, João Cerejeira, Miguel Portela, Carla Sá, Pedro N. Teixeira

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10667

Trends and Gradients in Top Tax Elasticities: Cross-Country Evidence, 1900–2014

Enrico Rubolino, Daniel Waldenström

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10666

Tax Progressivity and Top Incomes: Evidence from Tax Reforms

Enrico Rubolino, Daniel Waldenström

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10664

Egalitarianism under Pressure: Toward Lower Economic Mobility in the Knowledge Economy?

Simen Markussen, Knut Røed

revised version published as 'Economic Mobility under Pressure' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18 (4), 1844–1885,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10656

Ageing Poorly? Accounting for the Decline in Earnings Inequality in Brazil, 1995-2012

Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Sergio Firpo, Julián Messina

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10636

Structural Transformation and Income Distribution: Kuznets and Beyond

Ravi Kanbur

forthcoming in: Oxford University Press Handbook on Structural Tansformation

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10636

Structural Transformation and Income Distribution: Kuznets and Beyond

Ravi Kanbur

forthcoming in: Oxford University Press Handbook on Structural Tansformation

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10635

The Great Chinese Inequality Turnaround

Ravi Kanbur, Yue Wang, Xiaobo Zhang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10635

The Great Chinese Inequality Turnaround

Ravi Kanbur, Yue Wang, Xiaobo Zhang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10635

The Great Chinese Inequality Turnaround

Ravi Kanbur, Yue Wang, Xiaobo Zhang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10635

The Great Chinese Inequality Turnaround

Ravi Kanbur, Yue Wang, Xiaobo Zhang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10633

Financial Literacy and Attitudes to Redistribution

Alberto Montagnoli, Mirko Moro, Georgios A. Panos, Robert E. Wright

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10624

What Matters for Life Satisfaction among the Oldest-Old? Evidence from China

Sor Tho Ng, Nai Peng Tey, Niaz Asadullah

published in: PLOS One, 2017, 12(2): e0171799

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10584

Occupational Choice and Matching in the Labor Market

Eric Mak, Aloysius Siow

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10574

On the Measurement of Long-Run Income Inequality: Empirical Evidence from Norway, 1875-2013

Rolf Aaberge, Tony Atkinson, Jorgen Heibo Modalsli

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10572

Minimum Wages and the Distribution of Family Incomes

Arindrajit Dube

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10567

Genetic Ability, Wealth, and Financial Decision-Making

Daniel Barth, Nicholas W. Papageorge, Kevin Thom

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10564

Equal Opportunity through Higher Education: Theory and Evidence on Privilege and Ability

Yuval Arbel, Ronen Bar-El, Yossef Tobol

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10552

Globalization and Social Change: Gender-Specific Effects of Trade Liberalization in Indonesia

Krisztina Kis-Katos, Janneke Pieters, Robert Sparrow

published in: IMF Economic Review, 2018, 66 (4), 763-793

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10463

Missing from the Market: Purdah Norm and Women's Paid Work Participation in Bangladesh

Niaz Asadullah, Zaki Wahhaj

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10450

Trends in the German Income Distribution: 2005/06 to 2010/11

Martin Biewen, Martin Ungerer, Max Loeffler

revised version published as “Why Did Income Inequality in Germany Not Increase Further After 2005?” in: German Economic Review, 2019, 20 (4), 471–504

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10424

Glass Ceiling Effect in Urban China: Wage Inequality of Rural-Urban Migrants during 2002-2007

Zhaopeng (Frank) Qu, Zhong Zhao

published in: China Economic Review, 2017, 42, 118-144 [Details & Download]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10392

Growth with Equity: Income Inequality in Vietnam, 2002–14

Dwayne Benjamin, Loren Brandt, Brian McCaig

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10362

Family Economics Writ Large

Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, Guillaume Vandenbroucke

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10337

Personality and Mental Health: The Role and Substitution Effect of Emotional Stability and Conscientiousness

Caroline Wehner, Trudie Schils, Lex Borghans

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10293

Collective Bargaining and the Evolution of Wage Inequality in Italy

Francesco Devicienti, Bernardo Fanfani, Agata Maida

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10200

Genes, Education, and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

Nicholas W. Papageorge, Kevin Thom

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10156

Tracking Wage Inequality Trends with Prices and Different Trade Models: Evidence from Mexico

Timothy J. Halliday, Daniel Lederman, Raymond Robertson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10155

Income Inequality and Well-Being in the U.S.: Evidence of Geographic-Scale- and Measure-Dependence

John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee, Carol Lee Graham

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10125

(In)Equality and (In)Justice

Guillermina Jasso

published in: Civitas – Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2016, 16 (2), 189-217

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10125

(In)Equality and (In)Justice

Guillermina Jasso

published in: Civitas – Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2016, 16 (2), 189-217

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10125

(In)Equality and (In)Justice

Guillermina Jasso

published in: Civitas – Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2016, 16 (2), 189-217

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10124

Pareto Models, Top Incomes, and Recent Trends in UK Income Inequality

Stephen P. Jenkins

published in: Economica, 2017, 84, 261–289.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10089

Family, Community and Long-Term Earnings Inequality

Paul Bingley, Lorenzo Cappellari, Konstantinos Tatsiramos

revised version forthcoming as "Family, Community and Long-Term Socioeconomic Inequality: Evidence from Siblings and Youth Peers" in: Economic Journal, 2020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10064

Returns to Schooling among Immigrants in Spain: A Quantile Regression Approach

Santiago Budría, Pablo Swedberg, Marlene Fonseca

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10049

Vulnerability to Poverty: Tajikistan During and After the Global Financial Crisis

Ira N. Gang, Kseniia Gatskova, John Landon-Lane, Myeong-Su Yun

published in: Social Indicators Research, 2018, 138 (3), 925 - 951 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-017-1689-y

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10034

Trade Competition, Technology and Labour Reallocation

Selva B. Baziki, Rita Ginja, Teodora Borota Milicevic

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10006

Effects of Credit Supply on Unemployment and Inequality

Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Elias Dinopoulos, Bulent Unel

revised version published in: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, 2018, 100 (4), 345-362

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10000

The Scandinavian Fantasy: The Sources of Intergenerational Mobility in Denmark and the U.S.

Rasmus Landerso, James J. Heckman

forthcoming in the Scandinavian Journal of Economics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9975

Estimation of a Roy/Search/Compensating Differential Model of the Labor Market

Christopher Taber, Rune Majlund Vejlin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9974

Decomposition Analysis of Earnings Inequality in Rural India: 2004-2012

Shantanu Khanna, Deepti Goel, René Morissette

published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2016, 5 (18)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9958

Dynamic Effects of Educational Assortative Mating on Labor Supply

Rania Gihleb, Osnat Lifshitz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9903

Mortality Inequality: The Good News from a County-Level Approach

Janet Currie, Hannes Schwandt

Journal of Economic Perspectives, May 2016, Vol. 30(2): 29-52

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9892

Spatial Income Inequality in India, 1993-2011: A District Level Decomposition

Mehtabul Azam, Vipul Bhatt

published in Social Indicators Research

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9892

Spatial Income Inequality in India, 1993-2011: A District Level Decomposition

Mehtabul Azam, Vipul Bhatt

published in Social Indicators Research

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9861

The Formation of Prosociality: Causal Evidence on the Role of Social Environment

Fabian Kosse, Thomas Deckers, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Armin Falk

published in: Journal of Political Economy, ahead of print January 02, 2020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9812

Crime, the Criminal Justice System, and Socioeconomic Inequality

Magnus Lofstrom, Steven Raphael

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016, 30 (2), 103 - 126

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. 9718

What Has Been Happening to UK Income Inequality since the Mid-1990s? Answers from Reconciled and Combined Household Survey and Tax Return Data

Richard V. Burkhauser, Nicolas Herault, Stephen P. Jenkins, Roger Wilkins

Published in: Oxford Economic Papers, April 2018, 70(2), 301–326. (Open Access)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9718

What Has Been Happening to UK Income Inequality since the Mid-1990s? Answers from Reconciled and Combined Household Survey and Tax Return Data

Richard V. Burkhauser, Nicolas Herault, Stephen P. Jenkins, Roger Wilkins

Published in: Oxford Economic Papers, April 2018, 70(2), 301–326. (Open Access)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9715

The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Earnings Inequality: Evidence from China

Carl Lin, Myeong-Su Yun

published in: Research in Labor Economics (Income Inequality Around the World), 2016, 44, 179-212

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9709

Profiling the US Sick Leave Landscape

Philip Susser, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

short version published in: Health Services Research, 2016, 51(6): 2305-2317

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9688

Parental Influences on Health and Longevity: Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees

Mikael Lindahl, Evelina Björkegren, Mårten Palme, Emilia Simeonova

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9684

Does Financial Deregulation Boost Top Incomes? Evidence from the Big Bang

Julia Tanndal, Daniel Waldenström

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9677

Top Incomes and Human Well-being Around the World

Richard V. Burkhauser, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Nattavudh Powdthavee

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 62, 246-257

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9637

Subjective Well-being in China, 2005-2010: The Role of Relative Income, Gender and Location

Niaz Asadullah, Saizi Xiao, Emile Kok-Kheng Yeoh

published in: China Economic Review, 2018, 48, 83–101

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9603

Socio-Economic Segregation in European Capital Cities: Increasing Separation between Poor and Rich

Sako Musterd, Szymon Marcińczak, Maarten van Ham, Tiit Tammaru

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9587

Collective Bargaining Systems and Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Flexibility: The Quest for Appropriate Institutional Forms in Advanced Economies

John T. Addison

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2016, 5: 19

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9582

Measurement of Inequality of Opportunity Based on Counterfactuals

Dirk Van de gaer, Xavier Ramos

published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2020. DOI: 10.1007/s00355-020-01261-3

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9581

Capital Shares and Income inequality: Evidence from the Long Run

Erik Bengtsson, Daniel Waldenström

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9580

The Changing Nature of Irish Wage Inequality from Boom to Bust

Niamh Holton, Donal O'Neill

published in: Economic and Social Review, 2017, 48 (1):1-26

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9579

The Individual Perception of Wage Inequality: A Measurement Framework and Some Empirical Evidence

Andreas Kuhn

revised version published as `The Individual (Mis-)Perception of Wage Inequality: Measurement, Correlates and Implications' in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 59, 2039-2069

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9579

The Individual Perception of Wage Inequality: A Measurement Framework and Some Empirical Evidence

Andreas Kuhn

revised version published as `The Individual (Mis-)Perception of Wage Inequality: Measurement, Correlates and Implications' in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 59, 2039-2069

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9579

The Individual Perception of Wage Inequality: A Measurement Framework and Some Empirical Evidence

Andreas Kuhn

revised version published as `The Individual (Mis-)Perception of Wage Inequality: Measurement, Correlates and Implications' in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 59, 2039-2069

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9557

The Moderating Effect of Higher Education on Intergenerational Spatial Inequality

Elise de Vuijst, Maarten van Ham, Reinout Kleinhans

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9546

Long-Term Consequences of Access to Well-Child Visits

Aline Bütikofer, Katrine Vellesen Loken, Kjell G. Salvanes

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9519

Status Concern and Relative Deprivation in China: Measures, Empirical Evidence, and Economic and Policy Implications

Xi Chen

China: An International Journal (SSCI), 2016, 14(1): 151-170. Project MUSE, muse.jhu.edu/article/611560

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9468

Appraising Cross-National Income Inequality Databases: An Introduction

Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Nora Lustig, Daniel Teles

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2015, 13 (4), 497-526.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9468

Appraising Cross-National Income Inequality Databases: An Introduction

Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Nora Lustig, Daniel Teles

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2015, 13 (4), 497-526.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9468

Appraising Cross-National Income Inequality Databases: An Introduction

Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Nora Lustig, Daniel Teles

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2015, 13 (4), 497-526.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9406

The Subversive Nature of Inequality: Subjective Inequality Perceptions and Attitudes to Social Inequality

Andreas Kuhn

revised and shortened version published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 59, 331-344

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9406

The Subversive Nature of Inequality: Subjective Inequality Perceptions and Attitudes to Social Inequality

Andreas Kuhn

revised and shortened version published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 59, 331-344

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9394

New Estimates of Intergenerational Mobility in Australia

Silvia Mendolia, Peter Siminski

published in: Economic Record, 2016, 92 (298), 361-373.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9294

The Role of Establishments and the Concentration of Occupations in Wage Inequality

Elizabeth Handwerker, James R. Spletzer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9254

Wage Compression within the Firm

Marco Leonardi, Michele Pellizzari, Domenico Tabasso

published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129, 3256-3291.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9216

Can I Have Permission to Leave the House? Return Migration and the Transfer of Gender Norms

Michele Tuccio, Jackline Wahba

published as 'Return Migration and the Transfer of Gender Norms: Evidence from the Middle East' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (4), 1006 - 1029

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9210

Income Inequality in Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador: Different Reasons

María Aristizábal-Ramírez, Gustavo J Canavire Bacarreza, Michael Jetter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9210

Income Inequality in Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador: Different Reasons

María Aristizábal-Ramírez, Gustavo J Canavire Bacarreza, Michael Jetter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9197

Family Shocks and Academic Achievement

Marie C. Hull

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9194

The Rise of Domestic Outsourcing and the Evolution of the German Wage Structure

Deborah Goldschmidt, Johannes F. Schmieder