IZA Discussion Papers

revised version published as 'Can Extreme Poverty be Eliminated in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030?' in: Journal of African Development, 2017, 19 (2), 93 - 110

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8119

A Survey of the Role of Fiscal Policy in Addressing Income Inequality, Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth

Almas Heshmati, Jungsuk Kim

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8094

Does Corruption Promote Emigration? An Empirical Examination

Arusha Cooray, Friedrich Schneider

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29 (1), 293 - 310

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8088

The Great Compression of the French Wage Structure, 1969-2008

Gregory Verdugo

published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 28, 131-144

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8001

Euroskepticism in the Crisis: More Mood than Economy

Jo Ritzen, Klaus F. Zimmermann, Caroline Wehner

completely revised version published as 'Euroskepticism, Income Inequality and Financial Expectations' in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2015, 16 (2), 539-576

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7960

Firm Dynamics and Residual Inequality in Open Economies

Gabriel Felbermayr, Giammario Impullitti, Julien Prat

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2018, 16 (5), 1476 - 1539

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7916

Labor Income Dynamics and the Insurance from Taxes, Transfers, and the Family

Richard Blundell, Michael Graber, Magne Mogstad

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 127, 58-73

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7910

Does Greater Inequality Lead to More Household Borrowing? New Evidence from Household Data

Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Marianna Kudlyak, John Mondragon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7909

The Poor and the Poorest, Fifty Years On

Ian Gazeley, Andrew T. Newell, Kevin Reynolds, Rebecca Searle

published in: Journal of The Royal Statistical Society, 2017, 180 (2), 45 5- 474.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7895

Marry Your Like: Assortative Mating and Income Inequality

Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, Georgi Kocharkov, Cezar Santos

published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2014, 104(5), 348-353

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7883

Informality and Long-Run Growth

Frédéric Docquier, Tobias Müller, Joaquín Naval

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2017, 119(4), 1040-1085

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7818

Opportunity-Sensitive Poverty Measurement

Paolo Brunori, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Maria Ana Lugo, Vito Peragine

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7804

Shifting Taxes from Labor to Consumption: Efficient, but Regressive?

Nico Pestel, Eric Sommer

revised version published as 'Shifting Taxes from Labor to Consumption: More Employment and more Inequality?' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2017, 63 (3), 524-563

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7777

Distributional Effects of Macroeconomic Policy Choices in Emerging Market Economies

Eswar Prasad

published in: IMF Economic Review, 2014, 62 (3), 409-429

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7747

"To Have and Have Not": Migration, Remittances, Poverty and Inequality in Algeria

David N. Margolis, Luis Miotti, El Mouhoub Mouhoud, Joël Oudinet

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7738

A Theory for Ranking Distribution Functions

Rolf Aaberge, Tarjei Havnes, Magne Mogstad

published as 'Ranking intersecting distribution functions' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2021,36 (6), 639 - 662

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7737

Changes in Income Distributions and the Role of Tax-Benefit Policy During the Great Recession: An International Perspective

Olivier B. Bargain, Tim Callan, Karina Doorley, Claire Keane

published in: Fiscal Studies, 2017, 38 (4), 559-585

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7733

Does Wealth Inequality Matter for Growth? The Effect of Billionaire Wealth, Income Distribution, and Poverty

Sutirtha Bagchi, Jan Svejnar

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2015, 43 (3), 505-530

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7733

Does Wealth Inequality Matter for Growth? The Effect of Billionaire Wealth, Income Distribution, and Poverty

Sutirtha Bagchi, Jan Svejnar

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2015, 43 (3), 505-530

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7731

Income vs. Consumption Inequality in South Korea: Evaluating Stochastic Dominance Rankings by Various Household Attributes

Almas Heshmati, Robert Rudolf

published in: Asian Economic Journal, 2014, 28(4), 413-436.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7729

The Ins and Outs of Top Income Mobility

Rolf Aaberge, Tony Atkinson, Jorgen Heibo Modalsli

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7718

Firm Dynamics, Job Turnover, and Wage Distributions in an Open Economy

A. Kerem Cosar, Nezih Guner, James Tybout

published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (3), 625-63.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7708

What If You Had Been Less Fortunate: The Effects of Poor Family Background on Current Labor Market Outcomes

Sungwook Cho, Almas Heshmati

published in: Journal of Economic Studies, 2015, 42 (1), 20-33.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7637

Wealth Distribution within Couples

Markus M. Grabka, Jan Marcus, Eva Sierminska

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2015, 13(3), 459-486

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7603

Is There Convergence of Russia's Regions? Exploring the Empirical Evidence: 1995–2010

Hartmut Lehmann, Maria Giulia Silvagni

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7595

Educational Inequality and the Returns to Skills

Shelly Lundberg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7520

Income Inequality, Equality of Opportunity, and Intergenerational Mobility

Miles Corak

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2013, 27 (3), 79-102

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7486

Long Run Trends in Australian Executive Remuneration: BHP 1887-2012

Mike Pottenger, Andrew Leigh

published in: Australian Economic History Review, 2016, 56 (1), 2-20

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7426

Multitasking and Wages

Dennis J. Snower, Dennis Görlich

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7414

The Paradox of Redistribution Revisited: And That It May Rest in Peace?

Ive Marx, Lina Salanauskaite, Gerlinde Verbist

revised version published in: Social Forces, 2016, 95 (1), 1-24

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7331

Male Wage Inequality and Marital Dissolution: Is There a Link?

Andriana Bellou

published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2017, 50 (1), 40-71 (winner of Robert Mundell Prize, 2017)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7321

Bonus Culture: Competitive Pay, Screening, and Multitasking

Roland Benabou, Jean Tirole

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 124 (2), 305–370

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7305

The College Type: Personality and Educational Inequality

Shelly Lundberg

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 31 (3), 421-441

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7259

Education, Social Mobility and Religious Movements: A Theory of the Islamic Revival in Egypt

Christine Binzel, Jean-Paul Carvalho

revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (607), 2553 - 2580

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7244

Distributional Consequences of Capital Accumulation, Globalisation and Financialisation in the US

Marika Karanassou, Hector Sala

published in: Economic and Social Review, 2020, 51 (2), 275-303.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7242

Using the EU-SILC to Model the Impact of the Economic Crisis on Inequality

Cathal O'Donoghue, Jason Loughrey, Karyn Morrissey

published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2013, 2:23

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7236

The Distribution of Income in Central America

T. H. Gindling, Juan Diego Trejos

revised version published in: Salvador Marti i Puig; Diego Sanchez-Ancochea (eds.), The Handbook of Central American Governance, London: Routledge, 2014, 75-94.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7226

Poverty, Inequality, and the Local Natural Resource Curse

Norman Loayza, Alfredo Mier y Teran, Jamele Rigolini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7204

UK Households' Carbon Footprint: A Comparison of the Association between Household Characteristics and Emissions from Home Energy, Transport and Other Goods and Services

Milena Buechs, Sylke V. Schnepf

revised version published as 'Who emits most? An analysis of UK households' CO2 emissions and their association with socio-economic factors' in: Ecological Economics, 2013, 90, 114-123

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7200

Workplace Heterogeneity and the Rise of West German Wage Inequality

David Card, Jörg Heining, Patrick Kline

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7190

Partisan Tax Policy and Income Inequality in the U.S., 1979-2007

Olivier B. Bargain, Mathias Dolls, Herwig Immervoll, Dirk Neumann, Andreas Peichl, Nico Pestel, Sebastian Siegloch

revised version published as 'Tax Policy and Income Inequality in the United States, 1979–2007' in: Economic Inquiry, 2015, 53 (2), 1061-1085

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7158

Gender Differences in German Wage Mobility

Bodo Aretz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7155

Inequality of Opportunity, Income Inequality and Economic Mobility: Some International Comparisons

Paolo Brunori, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Vito Peragine

published in: Eva Paus (ed.), Getting Development Right, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7153

The Drivers of Happiness Inequality: Suggestions for Promoting Social Cohesion

Leonardo Becchetti, Riccardo Massari, Paolo Naticchioni

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2014, 66(2), 419-442

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7153

The Drivers of Happiness Inequality: Suggestions for Promoting Social Cohesion

Leonardo Becchetti, Riccardo Massari, Paolo Naticchioni

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2014, 66(2), 419-442

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7142

The Effects of the State Sector on Wage Inequality in Urban China: 1988–2007

Qingjie Xia, Lina Song, Shi Li, Simon Appleton

published in: Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 2014, 12(1), 29-45

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7128

Unemployment Insurance, Wage Dynamics and Inequality over the Life Cycle

Paul Bingley, Lorenzo Cappellari, Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen

published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (568), 341–372

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7106

Corruption, Shadow Economy and Income Inequality: Evidence from Asia

Saibal Kar, Shrabani Saha

published in: Economic Systems, 2021, 45 (2), 100774

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7101

Understanding Urban Wage Inequality in China 1988-2008: Evidence from Quantile Analysis

Simon Appleton, Lina Song, Qingjie Xia

published in: World Development, 2014, 62, 1-13

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7083

Income Inequality and Saving

Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado, Mayssun El-Attar

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 80 (6), 1029 - 1061

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7068

The Growth of Low Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market

David Autor, David Dorn

published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (5), 1553-1597

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7045

Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in Japan among Sons and Daughters: Levels and Trends

Arnaud Lefranc, Fumiaki Ojima, Takashi Yoshida

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27 (1), 91-134

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6984

High-Performance Management Practices and Employee Outcomes in Denmark

Annalisa Cristini, Tor Eriksson, Dario Pozzoli

published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2013, 60 (3), 232-266

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6910

Unequal Inequalities: Do Progressive Taxes Reduce Income Inequality?

Denvil Duncan, Klara Sabirianova Peter

published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2016, 23 (4), 762 - 783

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6908

Household Search or Individual Search: Does It Matter? Evidence from Lifetime Inequality Estimates

Luca Flabbi, James Mabli

published as 'Household Search or Individual Search: Does It Matter?' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 35 (1), 1 - 46

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6900

Consumption Inequality and Family Labor Supply

Richard Blundell, Luigi Pistaferri, Itay Saporta-Eksten

published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (2), 387 - 435

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6823

Optimal Taxation, Child Care and Models of the Household

Patricia Apps, Ray Rees

published as 'Optimal family taxation and income inequality' in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2018, 25, 1093–1128

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6766

An Anatomy of Racial and Ethnic Trends in Male Earnings

John V. Winters, Barry Hirsch

revised version published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2014, 60 (4), 930-947

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6761

The Great Happiness Moderation

Andrew E. Clark, Sarah Flèche, Claudia Senik

published in: Andrew Clark and Claudia Senik (Eds.), Happiness and Economic Growth: Lessons from Developing Countries. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, 22-139

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6745

Income Distribution among those of 65 Years and Older in Sweden

Gabriella Sjögren Lindquist, Eskil Wadensjö

published in: Marek Szczpanski (ed.), Old Age Crisis and Pension Reform. Where do we stand?, Poznan: Publishing House of Poznan University of Technology, 2013

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6741

De Jure and De Facto Determinants of Power: Evidence from Mississippi

Graziella Bertocchi, Arcangelo Dimico

revised version published in: Constitutional Political Economy, 2017, 28, 321-345

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6721

Redistributive Preferences, Redistribution, and Inequality: Evidence from a Panel of OECD Countries

Andreas Kuhn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6721

Redistributive Preferences, Redistribution, and Inequality: Evidence from a Panel of OECD Countries

Andreas Kuhn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6709

Trends in Time Allocation: A Cross-Country Analysis