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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 Löffler
revised version published as “Why Did Income Inequality in Germany Not Increase Further After 2005?” in: German Economic Review, 2019, 20, 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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10392
Growth with Equity: Income Inequality in Vietnam, 2002–14
Dwayne Benjamin, Loren Brandt, Brian McCaig
published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2017, 15, 25 - 46
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10362
Family Economics Writ Large
Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, Guillaume Vandenbroucke
published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2017, 55, 1346-1434.
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
published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2019, 57 (2), 377-407
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10200
Genes, Education, and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study
Nicholas W. Papageorge, Kevin Thom
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association 2020, 18 (3), 1351 - 1399
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
published in: Review of World Economics, 2018, 154 (1), 47 - 73
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 published as 'Family, Community and Long-Term Socioeconomic Inequality: Evidence from Siblings and Youth Peers' in: Economic Journal, 2020, 131 (636), 1515 -1554
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
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 Landersø, James J. Heckman
published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2017, 119 (1), 178 - 230
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9975
Estimation of a Roy/Search/Compensating Differential Model of the Labor Market
Christopher Taber, Rune Majlund Vejlin
published in: Econometrica, 2020, 88 (3), 1031 - 1069
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
published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2022, 46, 302-327
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9903
Mortality Inequality: The Good News from a County-Level Approach
Janet Currie, Hannes Schwandt
published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016, 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, 2018, 138 (2), 505 - 522
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, 2018, 138 (2), 505 - 522
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, 2020, 128 (2), 434 - 467
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, 2018, 70 (2), 301 - 326
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, 2018, 70 (2), 301 - 326
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
published in: Economics, 2018, 85 (338), 232-265
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
published in: Urban Geography, 2017, 38 (7), 1062-1083
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, 55, 595–627
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9581
Capital Shares and Income inequality: Evidence from the Long Run
Erik Bengtsson, Daniel Waldenström
published in: Journal of Economic History, 2018, 78 (3), 712-74
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
published in: China: An International Journal, 2016, 14 (1), 151-170.
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
pubished in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2017, 132 (3), 1165 -1217
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9193
The Anatomy of Job Polarisation in the UK
Andrea Salvatori
published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2018, 52, 8 (2018)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9190
Modelling the Joint Distribution of Income and Wealth
Markus Jäntti, Eva Sierminska, Philippe Van Kerm
published in: Research on Economic Inequality, 2015, 23, 301-327
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9164
The Selection of High-Skilled Migrants
Matthias Parey, Jens Ruhose, Fabian Waldinger, Nicolai Netz
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 99(5), 776-792
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9139
Multidimensional Affluence in Income and Wealth in the Eurozone: A Cross-Country Comparison Using the HFCS
Sine Kontbay-Busun, Andreas Peichl
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9107
Explaining the Unexplained: Residual Wage Inequality, Manufacturing Decline, and Low-Skilled Immigration
Eric D. Gould
published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (619), 1281–1326
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9100
Misperceiving Inequality
Vladimir Gimpelson, Daniel Treisman
published in: Economics and Politics, 2018, 30 (1), 27 - 54
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9082
Is Ability Tracking (Really) Responsible for Educational Inequalities in Achievement? A Comparison between the Country States Bavaria and Hesse in Germany
Hartmut Esser, Ilona Relikowski
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9037
Top Incomes in Canada: Evidence from the Census
Thomas Lemieux, W. Craig Riddell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9022
Changing Income Inequality and Panel Income Changes
Robert Duval Hernández, Gary S. Fields, George H. Jakubson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9005
Inequality of Opportunities of Educational Achievement in Turkey over Time
Aysit Tansel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8996
Innovation, Inequality and a Golden Rule for Growth in an Economy with Cobb-Douglas Function and an R&D Sector
Paul J. J. Welfens
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8995
Has Performance Pay Increased Wage Inequality in Britain?
Mark L. Bryan, Alex Bryson
published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 41, 149-161
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8994
Equality of Opportunity: Theory and Evidence
Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Vito Peragine
published in: Matthew Adler and Marc Fleurbaey (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy, Oxford: OUP, 2016
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8954
Stated and Revealed Inequality Aversion in Three Subject Pools
Benjamin Beranek, Robin Cubitt, Simon Gächter
published in: Journal of the Economic Science Association, 2015, 1 (1), 43-58
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8920
Offshoring and Labour Market Reforms: Modelling the German Experience
Thomas Beissinger, Nathalie Chusseau, Joël Hellier
published in: Economic Modelling, 2016, 53, 314-333
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8917
The Evolution of Hourly Compensation in Canada between 1980 and 2010
Jean-Yves Duclos, Mathieu Pellerin
published in: Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, 2016, 42 (3), 250-273
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8873
Do Universities Shape Their Students' Personality?
Stefanie Schurer, Sonja C. de New, Felix Leung
published as 'University education and non-cognitive skill development' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2018, 70(2), 538–562
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8836
Rise of the Machines: The Effects of Labor-Saving Innovations on Jobs and Wages
Andy Feng, Georg Graetz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8835
The Income Distribution in the UK: A Picture of Advantage and Disadvantage
Stephen P. Jenkins
published in: H. Dean and L. Platt (eds.), Social Advantage and Disadvantage, Ch.7, 135 - 160, Oxford University Press, 2016.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8831
Technology and the Changing Family: A Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation
Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, Georgi Kocharkov, Cezar Santos
published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2016, 8 (1), 1-41.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8826
A Question of Degree: The Effects of Degree Class on Labor Market Outcomes
Andy Feng, Georg Graetz
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 61, 140-161
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8771
The Inequality-Growth Plateau
Daniel J. Henderson, Junhui Qian, Le Wang
published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 128, 17-20
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8729
Trends in Earnings Inequality and Earnings Instability among U.S. Couples: How Important Is Assortative Matching?
Dmytro Hryshko, Chinhui Juhn, Kristin McCue
published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 48, 168-182
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8676
Gender Bias in Tax Systems Based on Household Income
Yuri Andrienko, Patricia Apps, Ray Rees
published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 117/118, 141-155
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8669
Wage Inequality and Wage Mobility in Turkey
Aysit Tansel, Basak Dalgic, Aytekin Güven
published in: Social Indicators Research, 2019, 142 (1), 107-129.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8595
Mapping and Understanding Ethnic Disparities in Length of Schooling: The Case of Ningxia Autonomous Region, China
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Ding Sai
published in: Social Indicators Research, 2015, 124 (2), 517-535.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8592
Does Development Reduce Migration?
Michael A. Clemens
published in: Robert E.B. Lucas, ed. (2014), International Handbook on Migration and Economic Development. London: Edward Elgar, Chap. 6, pp. 152–185.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8545
Evidence and Persistence of Education Inequality in an Early-Tracking System: The German Case
Annabelle Krause-Pilatus, Simone Schüller
published in: Scuola Democratica, 2014, 2
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8533
Institution Formation and Cooperation with Heterogeneous Agents
Sebastian Kube, Sebastian Schaube, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Elina Khachatryan
published in: European Economic Review, 2015, 78, 248-268.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8505
Selective Schooling Systems Increase Inequality
Simon Burgess, Matt Dickson, Lindsey Macmillan
revised version published as 'Do selective schooling systems increase inequality? ' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2020, 72 (1), 1 - 24
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8504
Growth and Inequality in Public Good Games
Simon Gächter, Friederike Mengel, Elias Tsakas, Alexander Vostroknutov
revised version published in Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 150, 1-13
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8502
Relative Concerns for Consumption at the Top: An Intertemporal Analysis for the UK
Climent Quintana-Domeque, Johannes Wohlfart
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 129, 172-194.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8501
World Income Inequality Databases: An Assessment of WIID and SWIID
Stephen P. Jenkins
published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2015, 13 (4), 629 - 671
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8501
World Income Inequality Databases: An Assessment of WIID and SWIID
Stephen P. Jenkins
published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2015, 13 (4), 629 - 671
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8500
Long Term Trends in Fair and Unfair Inequality in the United States
Andrew Hussey, Michael Jetter
published in: Applied Economics, 2016, 49(12): 1147-1163
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8500
Long Term Trends in Fair and Unfair Inequality in the United States
Andrew Hussey, Michael Jetter
published in: Applied Economics, 2016, 49(12): 1147-1163
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8482
Beyond Inequality Accounting: Marital Sorting and Couple Labor Supply
Nico Pestel
published as 'Marital Sorting, Inequality and the Role of Female Labour Supply: Evidence from East and West Germany' in: Economica , 2017, 84 (333), 104-127
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