IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13378

Inequality in Personality over the Life Cycle

Miriam Gensowski, Mette Gørtz, Stefanie Schurer

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 184, 46-77

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

published as 'Unequal consequences of Covid 19: representative evidence from six countries' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2021, 19, 769–783

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

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2023, 69 (1), 1 - 33

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

revised version published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2022, 29, 953–984

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

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 221, 104863

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

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2022, 68 (4), 922-950

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13279

The Evolution of the US Family Income-Schooling Relationship and Educational Selectivity

Christian Belzil, Jörgen Hansen

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2021, 35 (7), 841-859

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

published in: Journal of Policy Modeling, 2021, 43 (1), 146-160

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13235

Modelling the Distributional Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis

Cathal O'Donoghue, Denisa Maria Sologon, Iryna Kyzyma, John McHale

published in: Fiscal Studies, 2020, 41 (2), 321 - 336

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13222

The Insights and Illusions of Consumption Measurements

Erich Battistin, Michele De Nadai, Nandini Krishnan

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023,161, 102991

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 H.W. 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

Abi Adams-Prassl, Teodora Boneva, Marta Golin, Christopher Rauh

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 189, 104245

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13179

Inequality and Panel Income Changes: Conditions for Possibilities and Impossibilities

Robert Duval Hernández, Gary S. Fields, George H. Jakubson

published as 'Inequality and Panel Income Changes: Conditions for Possibilities and Impossibilities' in: International Economic Review, 2023, 64 (1), 295-324.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13175

Wage Differentials, Bargaining Protocols, and Trade Unionism in Mid-Twentieth Century American Labor Markets

John H. Pencavel

published in: ILR Review, 2022, 75 (1), 139 - 167.

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

revised version published online as 'What can explain the socio-economic gap in international student mobility uptake? Similarities between Germany, Hungary, Italy and the UK' in: European Education Research Journal, 2024, 23 (4), 479 - 502

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, 2020, 191, 104171

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

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 188, 1325-1350

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

revised version published as 'Falling inequality and the growing capital income share: Reconciling divergent trends in survey and tax data' in: World Development, 2022, 152, 105783

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13057

Comparing Distributions of Ordinal Data

Stephen P. Jenkins

published in: The Stata Journal, 2020, 20 (3), 505–531

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13044

Long-Term Evolution of Inequality of Opportunity

Maurizio Bussolo, Daniele Checchi, Vito Peragine

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2023, 21, 277 - 323

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

published in: Journal of Applied Economics, 2024, 39 (4), 659 - 678

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13008

Buy Flexible, Pay More: The Role of Temporary Contracts on Wage Inequality

Andrea Albanese, Giovanni Gallo

published in: Labour Economics 2020, 64, 101814

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13003

Wage Inequality in Germany after the Minimum Wage Introduction

Mario Bossler, Thorsten Schank

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 41 (3), 813 - 857

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12998

Recoupling Economic and Social Prosperity

Katharina Lima de Miranda, Dennis J. Snower

published in: Global Perspectives, 2020, 1 (1), 11867

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 H Li, Basit Zafar

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2023, 15 (2), 359 - 394

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

published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2022, 17 (4), 608-640

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

published in: Review of Financial Studies, 2023, 36 (5), 1889 - 1929

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

published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 72, 102050

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

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2021, 73 (3),1034 - 1056

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

published in: Economics Letters, 2020, 187, 108880

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12873

Health Inequality among Chinese Older Adults: The Role of Childhood Circumstances

Binjian Yan, Xi Chen, Thomas M. Gill

published in: Journal of The Economics of Ageing, 2020, 17, 100237

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

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2021, 67 (3), 547- 563

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, 2020, 54 (3), 211-238

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12776

Improving Employment and Earnings in 21st Century Labor Markets: An Introduction

Erica L. Groshen, Harry J. Holzer

published in: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2019, 5 (1), 1-19;

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

published in D. Furchtgott-Roth (ed.), United States Trends in Income, Wealth, Consumption, and Well-Being; OUP, Oxford, 2020, 90-124.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12750

Recruit to Reject? Harvard and African American Applicants

Peter Arcidiacono, Josh Kinsler, Tyler Ransom

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2022, 88, 102255

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

published in: Health Economics, 2020, 29 (3), 367-381

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12737

Job Satisfaction and Coworker Pay in Canadian Firms

Mohsen Javdani, Brian Krauth

published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2020, 53 (1), 212-248

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

revised version published as 'Sharing the gains of transition: evaluating changes in income inequality and redistribution in Poland using combined survey and tax return data' in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 73, 102121

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

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (1), 201–243

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12623

Climate Change, Inequality, and Human Migration

Michal Burzynski, Christoph Deuster, Frédéric Docquier, Jaime de Melo

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022, 20 (3), 1145 - 1197

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12608

Catching up Is Hard to Do: Undergraduate Prestige, Elite Graduate Programs, and the Earnings Premium

Joni Hersch

published in: Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2019, 10 (3), 503 - 553

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12553

Economic Polarization and Antisocial Behavior: An Experiment

Maria Bigoni, Stefania Bortolotti, Efşan Nas Özen

published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2021, 126, 387 - 401

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

published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2020, 54, 1(2020)

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

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

published as 'Has U.S. employment really polarized? A critical reappraisal' in: Labour Economics, 2022, 75, 102117

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12468

Higher Tax and Less Work: An Optimal Response to Relative Income Concern

Felix FitzRoy, Jim Jin, Michael A. Nolan

published as 'Higher tax and less work: reverse 'Keep up with the Joneses' and rising inequality' in: Journal of Economics, 2023, 139 (3), 177-190,

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

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (1), 112-142

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

published in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (654), 2178–2209

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12428

Digitalization and the Future of Work: Macroeconomic Consequences

Melanie Arntz, Terry Gregory, Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage

published 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

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2022, 20, 299–325

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 published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 130, 103600

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12293

Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor

Daron Acemoglu, Pascual Restrepo

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2019, 33 (2), 3 - 30

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12292

The Wrong Kind of AI? Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Labor Demand

Daron Acemoglu, Pascual Restrepo

published in: Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2020, 13 (1), 25 - 35

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12273

'And Yet, It Moves': Intergenerational Mobility in Italy

Paolo Acciari, Alberto Polo, Giovanni L. Violante

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022, 14 (3), 118 - 163

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12246

Access to Imported Intermediates and Intra-Firm Wage Inequality

Ying Ge, Tony Fang, Yeheng Jiang

published in: World Economy, 2019, 42 (8), 2364-2384.

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

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2021, 49 (2), 499 - 552

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12199

Inequality and Trade Policy: Pro-Poor Bias of Contemporary Trade Restrictions

Beyza Ural Marchand

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, 65, 123-152.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12118

Selection and Educational Attainment: Why Some Children Are Left Behind? Evidence from a Middle-Income Country

Luciana Méndez-Errico, Xavier Ramos

published in: Education Economics, 2022, 30 (6), 624-643

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12116

Mortality in Midlife for Subgroups in Germany

Peter Haan, Anna Hammerschmid, Julia Schmieder

published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2019, 14, 100182

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12088

Schooling Forsaken: Education and Migration

Ilhom Abdulloev, Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12070

Inequality of Opportunity in Education: Accounting for the Contributions of Sibs, Schools and Sorting across East Africa

Paul Anand, Jere R. Behrman, Hai-Anh H Dang, Sam Jones

published as 'Decomposing Learning Inequalities in East Africa: How Much Does Sorting Matter?' in: World Bank Economic Review, 2022, 36 (1), 219-243

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12053

University Tuition Fees and High School Students' Educational Intentions

Michael Bahrs, Thomas Siedler

published in: Fiscal Studies, 2019, 40 (2), 117-147

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12048

Regional Migration and Wage Inequality in the West African Economic and Monetary Union

Esther Mirjam Girsberger, Romuald Meango, Hillel Rapoport

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2020, 48 (2), 385-404

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. 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. 12044

Decomposing Real Wage Changes in the United States

Iván Fernández-Val, Aico van Vuuren, Francis Vella

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12034

Inequality and Market Concentration, When Shareholding Is More Skewed Than Consumption

Joshua S. Gans, Andrew Leigh, Martin Schmalz, Adam Triggs

published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2019, 35 (3), 550 - 563

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12017

Learning from the

Olivier B. Bargain, Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo, Prudence Magejo, Miracle Benhura

published as 'Income Distribution and the Potential of Redistributive Systems in Africa: A Decomposition Approach ' in: Journal of African Economies, 2022, 31 (4), 293 - 328

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12015

Income Inequality and the Size of Government: A Causal Analysis

Martin Guzi, Martin Kahanec

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12002

Labor Market Adjustment to Third Party Competition: Evidence from Mexico

Raymond Robertson, Timothy J. Halliday, Sindhu Vasireddy

published in: World Economy, 2020, 43 (7), 1977 - 2006

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11964

Unions and Wage Inequality: The Roles of Gender, Skill and Public Sector Employment

David Card, Thomas Lemieux, W. Craig Riddell

published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2020, 53 (1), 140 - 173

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11959