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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.
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