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538 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14043
Distributional Effects of Competition: A Simulation Approach
Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Abdelkrim Araar, Eduardo A. Malásquez, Sergio Olivieri, Tara Vishwanath
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14041
Europe's Migration Experience and its Effects on Economic Inequality
Martin Guzi, Martin Kahanec, Magdalena M. Ulceluse
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13877
Gender Economics: An Assessment
Almudena Sevilla
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13820
COVID-19 and Educational Inequality: How School Closures Affect Low- and High-Achieving Students
Elisabeth Grewenig, Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann, Larissa Zierow
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13765
From Parent to Child? The Long-Lasting Effects of Social Support
Ambra Poggi, Guyonne Kalb
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13761
An Adverse Social Welfare Effect of Quadruply Gainful Trade
Oded Stark, Grzegorz Kosiorowski
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13692
The Relationship between Subjective Wellbeing and Subjective Wellbeing Inequality: Taking Ordinality and Skewness Seriously
Arthur Grimes, Stephen P. Jenkins, Florencia Tranquilli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13675
Redistribution and Insurance in Welfare States around the World
Charlotte Bartels, Dirk Neumann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13665
Long-Term Effects of Equal Sharing: Evidence from Inheritance Rules for Land
Charlotte Bartels, Simon Jäger, Natalie Obergruber
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13610
Tracing the Local Impacts of Exports on Poverty and Inequality in Mexico
Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Emmanuel Vazquez, Hernan Winkler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13585
Top Incomes in Ireland: Reconciling Evidence from Tax Records and Household Survey Data
Tim Callan, Karina Doorley, Alyvia McTague
forthcoming in: Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13567
Can Stimulus Checks Boost an Economy under COVID-19? Evidence from South Korea
Moon Jung Kim, Soohyung Lee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13505
The Distributional Impact of Recurrent Immovable Property Taxation in Greece
Eirini Andriopoulou, Eleni Kanavitsa, Chrysa Leventi, Panos Tsakloglou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13502
Shoring up Economic Refugees: Venezuelan Migrants in the Ecuadorian Labor Market
Sergio Olivieri, Francesc Ortega, Ana Rivadeneira, Eliana Carranza
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13501
The Labor Market Effects of Venezuelan Migration in Ecuador
Sergio Olivieri, Francesc Ortega, Ana Rivadeneira, Eliana Carranza
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13456
Trends in Absolute Income Mobility in North America and Europe
Robert Manduca, Maximilian Hell, Adrian Adermon, Jo Blanden, Espen Bratberg, Anne C. Gielen, Hans van Kippersluis, Keun Bok Lee, Stephen Machin, Martin D. Munk, Martin Nybom, Yuri Ostrovsky, Sumaiya Rahman, Outi Sirniö
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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13339
Decomposing Poverty in Hard Times: Greece 2007-2016
Eirini Andriopoulou, Eleni Kanavitsa, Panos Tsakloglou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13328
Taxation in Matching Markets
Arnaud Dupuy, Alfred Galichon, Sonia Jaffe, Scott Duke Kominers
published in: International Economic Review, 2020, 61 (4), 1591-1634
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13326
Inequality Measurement and Tax/Transfer Policy
Patricia Apps, Ray Rees
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13249
Social Stability Challenged: Pandemics, Inequality and Policy Responses
Cristiano Perugini, Marko Vladisavljević
forthcoming in: Journal of Policy Modeling, 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13222
The Insights and Illusions of Consumption Measurements
Erich Battistin, Michele De Nadai, Nandini Krishnan
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. 13196
Modelling Errors in Survey and Administrative Data on Employment Earnings: Sensitivity to the Fraction Assumed to Have Error-Free Earnings
Stephen P. Jenkins, Fernando Rios-Avila
published in: Economics Letters, 2020, online first at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109253
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13148
Distributional Effects of Intergovernmental Transfers in Mexico
Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Kiyomi Cadena, Laura Moreno Herrera
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13085
Game of Prejudice: Experiments at the Extensive and Intensive Margin
Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani, Joseph Vecci, Tomáš Želinský
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13082
Accounting for Wealth Concentration in the US
Barıș Kaymak, David Leung, Markus Poschke
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13072
Induced Innovation: Evidence from China's Secondary Industry
Belton M. Fleisher, William H. McGuire, Xiaojun Wang, Min Qiang Zhao
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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13057
Comparing Distributions of Ordinal Data
Stephen P. Jenkins
forthcoming in: The Stata Journal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13044
Long-Term Evolution of Inequality of Opportunity
Maurizio Bussolo, Daniele Checchi, Vito Peragine
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12999
The Wealth of Parents: Trends over Time in Assortative Mating Based on Parental Wealth
Sander Wagner, Diederik Boertien, Mette Gørtz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12972
Satisfaction with Life, Happiness, and Inequality – a Pseudo-Panel Study
Søren Jensen, Peder J. Pedersen
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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12910
On the Precarious Link between the Gini Coefficient and the Incentive to Migrate
Oded Stark, Lukasz Byra, Grzegorz Kosiorowski
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12874
The Wage Premium of Communist Party Membership: Evidence from China
Hongjian Wang, Plamen Nikolov, Kevin Acker
accepted/forthcoming
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12855
Evaluating the Success of President Johnson's War on Poverty: Revisiting the Historical Record Using a Full-Income Poverty Measure
Richard V. Burkhauser, Kevin Corinth, James Elwell, Jeff Larrimore
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12823
Income Volatility, Health and Well-Being
Amelie Adeline, Ismael Choinière Crèvecoeur, Raquel Fonseca, Pierre-Carl Michaud
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12811
Inequality Comparisons with Ordinal Data
Stephen P. Jenkins
revised version forthcoming in: Review of Income and Wealth
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, online ahead of print, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00779954.2019.1697729 (Open Access)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12795
Productivity, Wages and Profits: Does Firms' Position in the Value Chain Matter?
Benoît Mahy, Francois Rycx, Guillaume Vermeylen, Mélanie Volral
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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12743
Differences in Euro-Area Household Finances and their Relevance for Monetary-Policy Transmission
Thomas Hintermaier, Winfried Koeniger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12737
Job Satisfaction and Coworker Pay in Canadian Firms
Mohsen Javdani, Brian Krauth
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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12694
Evidence on Intergenerational Income Transmission Using Complete Dutch Population Data
Fiona Carmichael, Christian Darko, Marco G Ercolani, Ceren Ozgen, W. Stanley Siebert
Economic Letters, 189(108996).
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12655
Life Cycle Saving and Dissaving Revisited across Three-Tiered Income Groups: Starting Hypotheses, Refinement through Literature Review, and Ideas for Empirical Testing
Robert Holzmann, Mercedes Ayuso, Estefanía Alaminos, Jorge Miguel Bravo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12643
Career or Flexible Work Arrangements? Gender Differences in Self-Employment in a Young Market Economy
Dominik Buttler, Eva Sierminska
published in: Journal of Family and Economic Issues, published 02 March 2020 (https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10834-020-09668-x)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12637
Pure Rank Preferences and Variation in Risk-Taking Behavior
Oded Stark, Wiktor Budzinski, Marcin Jakubek
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12625
Redistribution of Individual Pension Wealth to Survivor Pensions: Evidence from a Stated Preferences Analysis
Andries de Grip, Didier Fouarge, Raymond Montizaan
published in: Journal of Behavior Economics and Organization, 2020, 173, 402-421.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12519
Climbing up Ladders and Sliding down Snakes: An Empirical Assessment of the Effect of Social Mobility on Subjective Wellbeing
Paul Dolan, Grace Lordan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12505
Measuring Economic Mobility in India Using Noisy Data: A Partial Identification Approach
Hao Li, Daniel L. Millimet, Punarjit Roychowdhury
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12473
Which Ladder to Climb? Decomposing Life Cycle Wage Dynamics
Christian Bayer, Moritz Kuhn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12423
On Social Preferences and the Intensity of Risk Aversion
Oded Stark
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12404
Transitioning Towards More Equality? Wealth Gender Differences and the Changing Role of Explanatory Factors over Time
Eva Sierminska, Daniela Piazzalunga, Markus M. Grabka
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12350
The Distribution of Well-Being among Europeans
Andrea Brandolini, Alfonso Rosolia
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12345
Catching up with the West: Chinese Pathways to the Global Middle Class
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Xiuna Yang, Terry Sicular
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12312
Intergenerational Mobility: An Assessment for Latin American Countries
Hasan Bilgehan Yavuz, Francesco Pastore, Ömer Tuğsal Doruk
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12303
Do Employee Share Owners Face Too Much Financial Risk?
Douglas L. Kruse, Joseph Blasi, Dan Weltmann, Saehee Kang, Jung Ook Kim, William Castellano
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12283
Repercussions of Negatively Selective Migration for the Behavior of Nonmigrants When Preferences Are Social
Oded Stark, Wiktor Budzinski
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12266
Combining Administrative and Survey Data to Improve Income Measurement
Bruce D. Meyer, Nikolas Mittag
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. 12151
An Empirical Total Survey Error Decomposition Using Data Combination
Bruce D. Meyer, Nikolas Mittag
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12145
Parental Child Care Time, Income and Subjective Well-Being: A Multidimensional Polarization Approach for Germany
Joachim Merz, Normen Peters
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12130
Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe
Alberto Alesina, Elie Murard, Hillel Rapoport
Forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Geography
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12085
Partial Identification of Economic Mobility: With an Application to the United States
Daniel L. Millimet, Hao Li, Punarjit Roychowdhury
published in: Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2020, 38, 732-753
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12046
The Race between Demand and Supply: Tinbergen's Pioneering Studies of Earnings Inequality
James J. Heckman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12038
Misreporting of Government Transfers: How Important Are Survey Design and Geography?
Bruce D. Meyer, Nikolas Mittag
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12015
Income Inequality and the Size of Government: A Causal Analysis
Martin Guzi, Martin Kahanec
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12014
Perspectives on Poverty in Europe
Stephen P. Jenkins
published in: Italian Economic Journal, 6 (1), March 2020, 129-155 (Open Access)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11953
Housing Expenditures and Income Inequality
Christian Dustmann, Bernd Fitzenberger, Markus Zimmermann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11884
A Different Perspective on the Evolution of UK Income Inequality
Anthony B. Atkinson, Stephen P. Jenkins
published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 66(2), June 2020, 253-266 (Open Access)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11863
Distributional Impact Analysis: Toolkit and Illustrations of Impacts beyond the Average Treatment Effect
Guadalupe Bedoya, Luca Bittarello, Jonathan Davis, Nikolas Mittag
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11840
Capital Income Risk and the Dynamics of the Wealth Distribution
Hoang Khieu, Klaus Wälde
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11838
Top Incomes in Germany, 1871-2014
Charlotte Bartels
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11827
Which Ladder to Climb? Wages of Workers by Job, Plant, and Education
Christian Bayer, Moritz Kuhn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11784
Food for Fuel: The Effect of the US Biofuel Mandate on Poverty in India
Ujjayant Chakravorty, Marie-Helene Hubert, Beyza Ural Marchand
published in: Quantitative Economics, Econometric Society, 10(3), 2019, 1153-1193
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11776
Errors in Survey Reporting and Imputation and Their Effects on Estimates of Food Stamp Program Participation
Bruce D. Meyer, Nikolas Mittag, Robert M. Goerge
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11763
Relative Income and Happiness: An Experiment
John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee, Daniel Houser, Lina Diaz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11758
A Tale of Two Cities: An Experiment on Inequality and Preferences
Maria Bigoni, Veronica Rattini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11730
Educational Inequality and Public Policy Preferences: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments
Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 188, 104226
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11710
Trouble in the Tails? What We Know about Earnings Nonresponse Thirty Years after Lillard, Smith, and Welch
Christopher R. Bollinger, Barry Hirsch, Charles M. Hokayem, James P. Ziliak
published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 127 (5), 2143-2185
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11653
Validating the Collective Model of Household Consumption Using Direct Evidence on Sharing
Olivier Bargain, Guy Lacroix, Luca Tiberti
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11601
Measuring Unfair Inequality: Reconciling Equality of Opportunity and Freedom from Poverty
Paul Hufe, Ravi Kanbur, Andreas Peichl
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11572
Marital Patterns and Income Inequality
Arnaud Dupuy, Simon Weber
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11571
Shared Prosperity: Concepts, Data, and Some Policy Examples
Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Emanuela Galasso, Mario Negre
published in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance. Oxford. OUP. 2020.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11569
Innovation, Wages, and Polarization in China
Belton M. Fleisher, William H. McGuire, Yaqin Su, Min Qiang Zhao
revised version available
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11562
Structural Labour Supply Models and Microsimulation
Rolf Aaberge, Ugo Colombino
revised version published in: International Journal of Microsimulation, 2018, 11 (1), 162 - 197
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11522
From Classes to Copulas: Wages, Capital, and Top Incomes
Rolf Aaberge, Anthony B. Atkinson, Sebastian Königs
published in: The Journal of Economic Inequality, June 2018, Vol. 16(2), 295–320.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11519
Employer Power, Labor Saving Technical Change, and Inequality
Nancy H. Chau, Ravi Kanbur
forthcoming in: Festschrift in Honor of Pranab Bardhan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11484
How Valid Are Synthetic Panel Estimates of Poverty Dynamics?
Nicolas Herault, Stephen P. Jenkins
published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2019, 17 (1), 51--76
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11475
How Should Capital Be Taxed? Theory and Evidence from Sweden
Spencer Bastani, Daniel Waldenström
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11439
Inequality in EU Crisis Countries: How Effective Were Automatic Stabilisers?
Tim Callan, Karina Doorley, Michael Savage
forthcoming in: Fiscal Studies, 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11406
Intergenerational Earnings Persistence and Economic Inequality in the Long-Run: Evidence from French Cohorts, 1931-1975
Arnaud Lefranc
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11405
Upward and Downward Bias When Measuring Inequality of Opportunity
Paolo Brunori, Vito Peragine, Laura Serlenga
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11340
Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform for Young Adults: An Unconditional Quantile Regression Approach
Øystein Hernaes
revised version forthcoming in: Labour Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11329
Migration in China: To Work or to Wed?
Arnaud Dupuy
forthcoming in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11250
Wage Inequality and Structural Change
Joanna Tyrowicz, Magdalena Smyk
published in Social Indicators Research, 2019, 141(2), 503-538
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11194
Technological Innovation and Inclusive Growth in Germany
Wim Naudé, Paula Nagler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11192
Mechanics of Replacing Benefit Systems with a Basic Income: Comparative Results from a Microsimulation Approach
James Browne, Herwig Immervoll
published in a special issue of the Journal of Economic Inequality, honouring the work of Sir Anthony “Tony” Atkinson. DOI 10.1007/s10888-017-9366-6. Also available as OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper
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