IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Income Inequality: The Consequences of Skill-Upgrading - When Firms Have Hierarchical Organizational Structures' in Economic Inquiry, 2016, 54 (2), 1224-1239

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4787

Revisiting the Income-Health Nexus: The Importance of Choosing the "Right" Indicator

Nicolas R. Ziebarth, Joachim R. Frick

revised version published as 'Welfare-Related Health Inequality: Does the Choice of Measure Matter?' in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 14 (3), 431-442

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4769

Robust Inequality Comparisons

Rolf Aaberge, Magne Mogstad

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, 9 (3), 353-371

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4769

Robust Inequality Comparisons

Rolf Aaberge, Magne Mogstad

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, 9 (3), 353-371

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4727

Well-being Inequality and Reference Groups: An Agenda for New Research

Bernard M. S. van Praag

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, 9 (1), 111-127

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4722

Wage Inequality, Linkages and FDI

Nigel Driffield, Sourafel Girma, Michael Henry, Karl Taylor

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4714

Measuring Long-Term Inequality of Opportunity

Rolf Aaberge, Magne Mogstad, Vito Peragine

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (3-4), 193-204

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4703

Inequality Aversion and Risk Attitudes

Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Xavier Ramos

substantially revised version published as "Distaste for Inequality? The Role of Risk Aversion" in: M. Rojas (ed.), The Economics of Happiness, Springer, 2019.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4699

On the Measurement of Long-Term Income Inequality and Income Mobility

Rolf Aaberge, Magne Mogstad

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4680

Policies to Create and Destroy Human Capital in Europe

James J. Heckman, Bas Jacobs

published in: Hans-Werner Sinn and Edmund Phelps (eds.), Perspectives on the Performance of the Continental Economies, MIT Press, 2011, 253-322

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4648

Modelling the Effects of Immigration on Regional Economic Performance and the Wage Distribution: A CGE Analysis of Three EU Regions

Konstantinos Pouliakas, Deborah Roberts, Eudokia Balamou, Demetrios Psaltopoulos

published in: Regional Studies, 2014, 48(2), 318-338

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4642

Equalizing or Disequalizing Lifetime Earnings Differentials? Earnings Mobility in the EU: 1994-2001

Denisa Maria Sologon, Cathal O'Donoghue

published in: John A. Bishop and Rafael Salas (eds.), Inequality, Mobility, and Segregation: Essays in Honor of Jacques Silber (Research in Economic Inequality, Vol 20), 2012, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 237-283

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4634

Accounting for Imputed and Capital Income Flows in Income Inequality Analyses

Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka

published in: Douglas J. Besharov and Kenneth Couch (eds.), Counting the Poor: New Thinking About European Poverty Measures and Lessons for the United States, Oxford 2012, 117-142

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4592

When Supply Meets Demand: Wage Inequality in Portugal

Mario Centeno, Alvaro A. Novo

published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3 (23)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4585

Nature, Nurture and Egalitarian Policy: What Can We Learn from Molecular Genetics?

Petter Lundborg, Anders Stenberg

Published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2010, 8 (3), 320-330

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4581

The Distributional Impact of In Kind Public Benefits in European Countries

Alari Paulus, Holly Sutherland, Panos Tsakloglou

published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2010, 29(2), 243–266

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4520

The Redistributive Effects of Tax Benefit Systems in the Enlarged EU

Clemens Fuest, Judith Niehues, Andreas Peichl

revised version published in: Public Finance Review, 2010, 38 (4), 473-500

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4506

Health and Income: A Robust Comparison of Canada and the US

Jean-Yves Duclos, Damien Échevin

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (2), 293 - 302

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4499

Village Economies and the Structure of Extended Family Networks

Manuela Angelucci, Giacomo De Giorgi, Marcos A. Rangel, Imran Rasul

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy . 2009, 9 (1)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4454

20 Years of German Unification: Evidence on Income Convergence and Heterogeneity

Tilman Brück, Heiko Peters

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4449

Demand for Redistribution, Support for the Welfare State, and Party Identification in Austria

Andreas Kuhn

revised version published in: Empirica, 2010, 37(2), 215-236

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4426

Recent Trends in Top Income Shares in the USA: Reconciling Estimates from March CPS and IRS Tax Return Data

Richard V. Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng, Stephen P. Jenkins, Jeff Larrimore

revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94 (2), 371–388

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4360

In the Eye of the Beholder: Subjective Inequality Measures and the Demand for Redistribution

Andreas Kuhn

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 27(4), 625-641

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4311

Increased Opportunity to Move Up the Economic Ladder? Earnings Mobility in EU: 1994-2001

Denisa Maria Sologon, Cathal O'Donoghue

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4296

The Distributional Effects of Tax-Benefit Policies under New Labour: A Shapley Decomposition

Olivier Bargain

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 74 (6), 856–874

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4290

Inequality and Specialization: The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs in the United States

David Autor, David Dorn

see IZA DP No. 7068 for a substantially updated version

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4249

Down from the Mountain: Skill Upgrading and Wages in Appalachia

Christopher R. Bollinger, James P. Ziliak, Kenneth Troske

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2011, 29 (4), 819-857

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4233

Inequality and Volatility Moderation in Russia: Evidence from Micro-Level Panel Data on Consumption and Income

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Klara Sabirianova Peter, Dmitriy Stolyarov

revised version published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2010, 13 (1), 209 - 237

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4197

Demografie und Ungleichheit: Der Einfluss von Veränderungen der Haushaltsstruktur auf die Einkommensverteilung in Deutschland

Andreas Peichl, Nico Pestel, Hilmar Schneider

substantially revised version available as IZA Standpunkt No. 18, published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung / Journal for Labour Market Research, 2011, 43(4), 327-338

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4197

Demografie und Ungleichheit: Der Einfluss von Veränderungen der Haushaltsstruktur auf die Einkommensverteilung in Deutschland

Andreas Peichl, Nico Pestel, Hilmar Schneider

substantially revised version available as IZA Standpunkt No. 18, published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung / Journal for Labour Market Research, 2011, 43(4), 327-338

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4151

Policy, Institutional Factors and Earnings Mobility

Denisa Maria Sologon, Cathal O'Donoghue

published in: The European Journal of Comparative Economics, 2011, 8(2), pp. 175-202

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4137

Performance Pay and Within-Firm Wage Inequality

Erling Barth, Bernt Bratsberg, Torbjørn Haegeland, Oddbjørn Raaum

published as 'Performance Pay, Union Bargaining and Within-Firm Wage Inequality' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 74 (3), 327 - 362

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4050

Can a Task-Based Approach Explain the Recent Changes in the German Wage Structure?

Dirk Antonczyk, Bernd Fitzenberger, Ute Leuschner

published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2009, 229 (2-3), 214-238

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4048

How Does Household Production Affect Measured Income Inequality?

Harley Frazis, Jay Stewart

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (1), 3-22

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4025

Persistencies in the Labour Market

Paul Frijters, Maarten Lindeboom, Gerard J. van den Berg

forthcoming in: R&R Oxford bulletin of Economics and Statistics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4023

The Impact of Home Production on Economic Inequality in Germany

Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka, Olaf Groh-Samberg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4018

Supply Theory sans Profit-Maximization

Indraneel Dasgupta

published in: B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics: Contributions to Theoretical Economics, 2009, 9 (1), Article 26

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4012

Earnings Dynamics and Inequality among Men across 14 EU Countries, 1994-2001: Evidence from ECHP

Denisa Maria Sologon, Cathal O'Donoghue

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4011

Measuring Inequality Using Censored Data: A Multiple Imputation Approach

Stephen P. Jenkins, Richard V. Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng, Jeff Larrimore

revised version published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2011, 174 (1), 63 - 81

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4001

The Economics and Psychology of Inequality and Human Development

Flavio Cunha, James J. Heckman

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 320 - 364

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3988

Why Praise Inequality? Public Good Provision, Income Distribution and Social Welfare

Indraneel Dasgupta

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3973

A Distributional Analysis of Social Group Inequality in Rural India

Mehtabul Azam

revised version published in: Journal of International Development, 2012, 24 (4), 415–432

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3852

Ranking Intersecting Lorenz Curves

Rolf Aaberge

published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2009, 33 (2), 235-259

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3852

Ranking Intersecting Lorenz Curves

Rolf Aaberge

published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2009, 33 (2), 235-259

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3843

Rank, Income and Income Inequality in Urban China

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Ding Sai

published in China Economic Review, 2009, 20 (3), 497-507

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3801

Intergenerational Top Income Mobility in Sweden: A Combination of Equal Opportunity and Capitalistic Dynasties

Anders Björklund, Jesper Roine, Daniel Waldenström

revised version published as 'Intergenerational top income mobility in Sweden: Capitalist dynasties in the land of equal opportunity?' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2012, 96 (5-6), 474-484

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3801

Intergenerational Top Income Mobility in Sweden: A Combination of Equal Opportunity and Capitalistic Dynasties

Anders Björklund, Jesper Roine, Daniel Waldenström

revised version published as 'Intergenerational top income mobility in Sweden: Capitalist dynasties in the land of equal opportunity?' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2012, 96 (5-6), 474-484

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3796

Financial Development and the Distribution of Income in Latin America and the Caribbean

Gustavo J Canavire Bacarreza, Felix Rioja

published in: Well-Being and Social Policy, 2009, 5 (1), 1-18

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3780

Changes in Korean Wage Inequality, 1980−2005

Byung-Goo Kang, Myeong-Su Yun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3774

Analysis of Pay Inequality and its Impacts on Growth and Performance in the Korean Manufacturing Industry

Yunhee Kim, Jeong-Dong Lee, Almas Heshmati

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3751

Dynamics of Earnings and Hourly Wages in Germany

Michal Myck, Richard Ochmann, Salmai Qari

revised version published as 'Dynamics in Transitory and Permanent Variation of Wages in Germany' in: Economics Letters, 2011, 113 (2), 143 - 146

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3701

Does Growth Affect the Nature of Inequality? Ireland 1994–2001

Aedin Doris, Donal O'Neill, Olive Sweetman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3690

Estimating Trends in US Income Inequality Using the Current Population Survey: The Importance of Controlling for Censoring

Richard V. Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng, Stephen P. Jenkins, Jeff Larrimore

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, 9 (3), 393 - 415

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3690

Estimating Trends in US Income Inequality Using the Current Population Survey: The Importance of Controlling for Censoring

Richard V. Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng, Stephen P. Jenkins, Jeff Larrimore

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, 9 (3), 393 - 415

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3684

Distribution of Wealth and Interdependent Preferences

Andrew Grodner, Thomas J. Kniesner

published in: Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2010, 6 (4), 265-366

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3684

Distribution of Wealth and Interdependent Preferences

Andrew Grodner, Thomas J. Kniesner

published in: Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2010, 6 (4), 265-366

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3676

Management Compensation and Firm-Level Income Inequality

Anders Frederiksen, Odile Poulsen

published as 'Income Inequality: The Consequences of Skill-Upgrading - When Firms Have Hierarchical Organizational Structures' in Economic Inquiry, 2016, 54 (2), 1224-1239

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3673

Elite Capture, Political Voice and Exclusion from Aid: An Experimental Study

Ben D'Exelle, Arno Riedl

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3667

Job Search and Unemployment Insurance: New Evidence from Time Use Data

Alan B. Krueger, Andreas I. Mueller

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (3-4), 298-307

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3666

Determinants of Inter-Country Internet Diffusion Rates

Phanindra V. Wunnava, Daniel B. Leiter

published in: American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2009, 68 (2), 413-426

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3659

Urban-Rural Consumption Inequality in China from 1988 to 2002: Evidence from Quantile Regression Decomposition

Zhaopeng (Frank) Qu, Zhong Zhao

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3646

The Role of Childhood Health for the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from Administrative Data

Martin Salm, Daniel Schunk

revised version published as 'The Relationship between Child Health, Developmental Gaps, and Parental Education: Evidence from Administrative Data' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012, 10 (6), 1425-1449

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3624

Happiness Inequality in the United States

Betsey Stevenson, Justin Wolfers

published in: Journal of Legal Studies, 2008, 37 (s2), S33-S79

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3621

Regional Price Differences in Urban China 1986-2001: Estimation and Implication

Cathy Honge Gong, Xin Meng

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3573

Examining the Gender Wealth Gap in Germany

Eva Sierminska, Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2010, 62 (4), 669-690

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3560

Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality

Martin Kahanec, Klaus F. Zimmermann

substantially revised version published as 'How Skilled Immigration May Improve Economic Equality' in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2014, 3:2. [Open Access]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3557

Short-Run Distributional Effects of Public Education Transfers to Tertiary Education Students in Seven European Countries

Tim Callan, Timothy M. Smeeding, Panos Tsakloglou

published in: Education Economics, 2008, 16 (3), 275-288

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3527

Why Populist Democracy Promotes Market Liberalization

Pauline Grosjean, Claudia Senik

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3492

The Impact of Household Capital Income on Income Inequality: A Factor Decomposition Analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA

Anna Fräßdorf, Markus M. Grabka, Johannes Schwarze

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, 9 (1), 35 - 56

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3490

The Lot of the Unemployed: A Time Use Perspective

Alan B. Krueger, Andreas I. Mueller

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012, 10 (4), 765–794

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3488

Mexican-American Entrepreneurship

Robert W. Fairlie, Christopher Woodruff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3484

The Emerging Aversion to Inequality: Evidence from Poland 1992–2005

Irena Grosfeld, Claudia Senik

published in: Economics of Transition, 2010, 18 (1), 1–26

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3459

Growing out of Poverty: Trends and Patterns of Urban Poverty in China 1988–2002

Simon Appleton, Lina Song, Qingjie Xia

published in: World Development, 2010, 38 (5), 665-678

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3450

International Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Inequality

Martin Kahanec, Klaus F. Zimmermann

substantially revised version published in: Oxford Handbook on Economic Inequality, Oxford University Press, Oxford et al., 2009, 455 - 490

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3382

Subjective Performance Evaluation and Inequality Aversion

Christian Grund, Judith Przemeck

revised (consirably shortened) version published as 'Subjective performance appraisal and inequality aversion' in: Applied Economics, 2012, 44 (17), 2149 - 2155

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3317

Should Egalitarians Expropriate Philanthropists?

Indraneel Dasgupta, Ravi Kanbur

published as "Does Philanthropy Reduce Inequality?" in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, 9 (1), 1-21

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3291

Teamwork and Intra-Firm Wage Dispersion among Blue-Collar Workers

Uwe Jirjahn, Kornelius Kraft

revised version published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2010, 57(4), 404-429

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3279

South-South Migration: The Impact of Nicaraguan Immigrants on Earnings, Inequality and Poverty in Costa Rica

T. H. Gindling

published in: World Development, 2009, 37(1), 116-126

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3270

Earnings Instability and Earnings Inequality in Urban China: 1989–2006

Zhong Zhao

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3248

Sweden's Pensioners: How They Have Fared in the Roller Coaster Ride through the Past Decade and a Half of Deep Recession and Economic Exuberance

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Mats Johansson, Edward Palmer

revised version published as "The Welfare of Sweden's Old-age Pensioners in Times of Bust and Boom from 1990" in: Ageing and Society, 2009, 29 (4), 539-561

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3243

A New Unified Theory of Sociobehavioral Forces

Guillermina Jasso

published in: European Sociological Review, 2008, 24 (4), 411-434

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3239

Heterogeneous Life-Cycle Profiles, Income Risk and Consumption Inequality

Giorgio E. Primiceri, Thijs van Rens

published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2009, 56(1), 20-39

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3236

Distributive Justice and CEO Compensation

Guillermina Jasso, Eva M. Meyersson Milgrom

published in: Acta Sociologica, 2008, 51 (2), 123-143