IZA Discussion Papers

published in: Kaushik Basu, Maitreesh Ghatak, Kenneth Kletzer, Sudipto Mundle, and Eric Verhoogen (eds.), Development, Distribution, and Markets, Oxford University Press, 2021

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11502

Minimum Wages and the Gender Gap in Pay: New Evidence from the UK and Ireland

Olivier B. Bargain, Karina Doorley, Philippe Van Kerm

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, 65 (3), 514-539

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11493

Smooth Income Tax Schedules: Derivation and Consequences

Diana Estévez Schwarz, Eric Sommer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11475

How Should Capital Be Taxed? Theory and Evidence from Sweden

Spencer Bastani, Daniel Waldenström

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11440

Demographic Change and the European Income Distribution

Mathias Dolls, Karina Doorley, Alari Paulus, Hilmar Schneider, Eric Sommer

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2019, 17 (3), 337 - 357

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11419

The Returns to Schooling Unveiled

Ana Rute Cardoso, Paulo Guimaraes, Pedro Portugal, Hugo Reis

part 1 of this paper published online as 'What Lies Behind the Returns to Schooling: The Role of Labor Market Sorting and Worker Heterogeneity' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 22 August 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11294

Nonseparable Sample Selection Models with Censored Selection Rules: An Application to Wage Decompositions

Iván Fernández-Val, Aico van Vuuren, Francis Vella

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11275

Insurance, Redistribution, and the Inequality of Lifetime Income

Peter Haan, Daniel Kemptner, Victoria L. Prowse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11246

The Short-Term Distributional Effects of the German Minimum Wage Reform

Marco Caliendo, Alexandra Fedorets, Malte Preuß, Carsten Schröder, Linda Wittbrodt

substantially revised version published as 'The short- and medium-term distributional effects of the German minimum wage reform' in: Empirical Economics, 2023, 64, 1149 - 1175

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11220

The Price of Polarization: Estimating Task Prices under Routine-Biased Technical Change

Michael Johannes Böhm

revised version published in: Quantitative Economics, 2020, 11, 761-799.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11121

The Rising Longevity Gap by Lifetime Earnings: Distributional Implications for the Pension System

Peter Haan, Daniel Kemptner, Holger Lüthen

published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2020, 17, 100199

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11073

Spatial-Ethnic Inequalities: The Role of Location in the Estimation of Ethnic Wage Differentials

Simonetta Longhi

published as 'Does Geographical Location Matter for Ethnic Wage Gaps?' in: Journal of Regional Science, 2020, 60 (3), 538-557

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11018

The Returns to Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Matched Person-Firm Data

Mirjam C. van Praag, Arvid Raknerud

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11009

Individual Poverty Measurement Using a Fuzzy Intrahousehold Approach

Gianni Betti, Lucia Mangiavacchi, Luca Piccoli

published as 'Women and poverty: insights from individual consumption in Albania' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2020, 18, 69 - 91

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10979

Women in Top Incomes: Evidence from Sweden 1974–2013

Anne Boschini, Kristin Gunnarsson, Jesper Roine

updated version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 181, 104115

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10922

Micro Foundations of Earnings Differences

Tirthatanmoy Das, Solomon Polachek

published in: Palgrave Handbook of Economic Performance Analysis, 2019, 9-76

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10915

Analyzing Wage Differentials by Fields of Study: Evidence from Turkey

Antonio Di Paolo, Aysit Tansel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10901

Skill Premiums and the Supply of Young Workers in Germany

Albrecht Glitz, Daniel Wissmann

published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 72, 102034

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10877

Too Lucky to Be True: Fairness Views under the Shadow of Cheating

Stefania Bortolotti, Ivan Soraperra, Matthias Sutter, Claudia Zoller

published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 29 November 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10854

Perception of Corruption and Public Support for Redistribution in Latin America

Esther Hauk, Mónica Oviedo, Xavier Ramos

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 74, 102174

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10820

Social Comparisons in Oligopsony

Laszlo Goerke, Michael Neugart

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 141, 196-209

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10820

Social Comparisons in Oligopsony

Laszlo Goerke, Michael Neugart

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 141, 196-209

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10726

Differences in Positions along a Hierarchy: Counterfactuals Based on an Assignment Model

Laurent Gobillon, Dominique Meurs, Sébastien Roux

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10692

Cities, Towns, and Poverty: Migration Equilibrium and Income Distribution in a Todaro-type Model with Multiple Destinations

Luc Christiaensen, Joachim De Weerdt, Ravi Kanbur

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10633

Financial Literacy and Attitudes to Redistribution

Alberto Montagnoli, Mirko Moro, Georgios A. Panos, Robert E. Wright

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10627

Can Gender Differences in Distributional Preferences Explain Gender Gaps in Competition?

Subha Mani, Utteeyo Dasgupta, Smriti Sharma, Saurabh Singhal

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2019, 70, 1-11

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10584

Occupational Choice and Matching in the Labor Market

Eric Mak, Aloysius Siow

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10574

On the Measurement of Long-Run Income Inequality: Empirical Evidence from Norway, 1875-2013

Rolf Aaberge, Tony Atkinson, Jorgen Heibo Modalsli

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10573

An Integrated Approach for Top-Corrected Ginis

Charlotte Bartels, Maria Metzing

published as 'An integrated approach for a top-corrected income distribution' in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2019, 17 (2), 125-143

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10570

The Extent of Rent Sharing along the Wage Distribution

Alessia Matano, Paolo Naticchioni

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relation, 2017, 55 (4), 751-777

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10514

Persistent Occupational Hierarchies among Immigrant Worker Groups in the United States Labor Market

Agnieszka Postepska, Francis Vella

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10371

Firm Size Distribution and Employment Fluctuations: Theory and Evidence

Holger Görg, Philipp Henze, Viroj Jienwatcharamongkhol, Daniel Kopasker, Hassan Molana, Catia Montagna, Fredrik Sjöholm

published in: Research in Economics, 2017, 71(4), 690-703

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10297

Privatisation in Developing Countries: What Are the Lessons of Recent Experience?

Saul Estrin, Adeline Pelletier

published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2018, 33 (1), 65–102,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10259

In Front of and Behind the Veil of Ignorance: An Analysis of Motivations for Redistribution

David J. Bjerk

published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2016, 47 (4), 791-824.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10167

The Heterogeneous Impacts of Business Cycles on Educational Attainment

Ernest Boffy-Ramirez

published in: Education Economics, 2017, 25 (6), 554-561

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. 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. 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. 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. 9967

Optimal Unemployment Benefit Policy and the Firm Productivity Distribution

Tomer Blumkin, Leif Danziger, Eran Yashiv

published in: International Tax and Public Finance 2017, 24, 36-59

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9902

Wealth Inequality in Sweden: What Can We Learn from Capitalized Income Tax Data?

Jacob Lundberg, Daniel Waldenström

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2018, 64 (3), 517 - 541

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9850

Firms and Labor Market Inequality: Evidence and Some Theory

David Card, Ana Rute Cardoso, Jörg Heining, Patrick Kline

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36 (S1), S13-S70

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9839

Inheritance and Wealth Inequality: Evidence from Population Registers

Mikael Elinder, Oscar Erixson, Daniel Waldenström

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 165, 17 - 30

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. 9272

Distributional Effects of Monetary Policy in Emerging Market Economies

Eswar Prasad, Boyang Zhang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9154

Optimal Wage Redistribution in the Presence of Adverse Selection in the Labor Market

Spencer Bastani, Tomer Blumkin, Luca Micheletto

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 131, 41-57

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9152

A Tax Benefit Model for Policy Evaluation in Luxembourg: LuxTaxBen

Nizamul Islam, Lennart Flood

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9123

Redistribution and Insurance with Simple Tax Instruments

Sebastian Findeisen, Dominik Sachs

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 146, 58-78

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. 9100

Misperceiving Inequality

Vladimir Gimpelson, Daniel Treisman

published in: Economics and Politics, 2018, 30 (1), 27 - 54

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9020

The Pan-European Population Distribution Across Consistently Defined Functional Urban Areas

Kurt Schmidheiny, Jens Suedekum

published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 133, 10-13

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9002

How Falsifiable is the Collective Model? A New Test with an Application to Monogamous and Bigamous Households in Burkina Faso

Anyck Dauphin, Bernard Fortin, Guy Lacroix

published as ' Is Consumption Efficiency within Househols Falsifiable?' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2018, 16 (3), 737 - 766

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. 8898

GTL Regression: A Linear Model with Skewed and Thick-Tailed Disturbances

Wim P. Vijverberg, Takuya Hasebe

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8897

Modelling the Impact of Direct and Indirect Taxes Using Complementary Datasets

Michael Savage, Tim Callan

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. 8574

Immigration, Search, and Redistribution: A Quantitative Assessment of Native Welfare

Michele Battisti, Gabriel Felbermayr, Giovanni Peri, Panu Poutvaara

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2018,16 (4), 1137 - 1188

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8503

Equalization of Opportunity: Definitions, Implementable Conditions and Application to Early-Childhood Policy Evaluation

Francesco Andreoli, Tarjei Havnes, Arnaud Lefranc

published as 'Robust Inequality of Opportunity Comparisons: Theory and Application to Early Childhood Policy Evaluation' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101, (2), 355 - 369

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8418

Deserving Poor and the Desirability of a Minimum Wage

Tomer Blumkin, Leif Danziger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8351

Aging and Migration in a Transition Economy: The Case of China

Örn B. Bodvarsson, Jack W. Hou, Kailing Shen

published as 'Aging and Migration: Micro and Macro Evidence from China' in: Frontiers of Economics in China, 2016, 11 (4), 548-580

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8339

A General Semiparametric Approach to Inference with Marker-Dependent Hazard Rate Models

Gerard J. van den Berg, Lena Janys, Enno Mammen, Jens P. Nielsen

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2021, 221, 43-67

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8315

The Public Sector Wage Premium in Spain: Evidence from Longitudinal Administrative Data

Laura Hospido, Enrique Moral-Benito

published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 42, 101–122

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8277

Trust and the Welfare State: The Twin Peaks Curve

Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc, Marc Sangnier

published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (593), 861-883

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8275

Optimal Taxation, Inequality and Top Incomes

Yuri Andrienko, Patricia Apps, Ray Rees

published as "Optimal Taxation and Top Incomes" in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2016, 23, 918-1003

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8199

Human Capital Mobility: Implications for Efficiency, Income Distribution, and Policy

David Wildasin

published in: M. Gérard and S. Uebelmesser (eds.), The Mobility of Students and the Highly Skilled: Implications for Education Financing and Economic Policy, MIT Press, 2014

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8158

Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials by Type of Contract: Evidence from Spain

Raul Ramos, Esteban Sanromá, Hipólito Simón

published in: Hacienda Pública Española/Review of Public Economics, 2014, 208 (1), 107-141

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8157

Long-Run Trends in the Distribution of Income and Wealth

Jesper Roine, Daniel Waldenström

published in: A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (eds.): Handbook of Income Distribution, 2, 2015, 469-592

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8157

Long-Run Trends in the Distribution of Income and Wealth

Jesper Roine, Daniel Waldenström

published in: A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (eds.): Handbook of Income Distribution, 2, 2015, 469-592