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453 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1693
Can Democracy Educate a Society?
Hans Gersbach, Lars Siemers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1690
The Dynamics of the National Minimum Wage: Transitions Between Different Labour Market States
Melanie K. Jones, Richard J. Jones, Philip D. Murphy, Peter J. Sloane
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1570
Minimum Wage or Negative Income Tax: Why Skilled Workers May Favor Wage Rigidities
Maya Bacache-Beauvallet, Etienne Lehmann
published as 'Minimum wage or negative income tax: why skilled workers may favor wage rigidities' in: Spanish Economic Review, 2008, 10 (1), 63-81
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1531
The Economics of Migrants’ Remittances
Hillel Rapoport, Frédéric Docquier
published in: S. Kolm and J. Mercier Ythier (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Giving, Altruism and Reciprocity Vol. 2, North Holland 2006
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1478
Education, Redistributive Taxation and Confidence
Kai A. Konrad, Amedeo Spadaro
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2006, 90(1-2), 171-188
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1441
Normative Evaluation of Tax Policies: From Households to Individuals
Olivier B. Bargain
revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2008, 21 (2), 339-371
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1404
The Political Economy of Job Protection and Income Redistribution
Bruno Amable, Donatella Gatti
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1314
Key Elasticities in Job Search Theory: International Evidence
John T. Addison, Mario Centeno, Pedro Portugal
published as 'Unemployment Benefits and Reservation Wages: Key Elasticities from a Stripped-Down Job Search Approach' in Economica, 2010, 77 (305), 46-59.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1307
Regional Income Inequality in Selected Large Countries
Almas Heshmati
published in: A. Heshmati (ed.), Global Trends in Income Inequality, Hauppauge and New York, 2007, 121-155
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1271
Continental and Sub-Continental Income Inequality
Almas Heshmati
published in: ICFAI Journal of Applied Economics, 2005, 5 (1), 7-52
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1267
The World Distribution of Income and Income Inequality
Almas Heshmati
published as "The World Distribution of Income and Income Inequality: A Review of the Economic Literature" in: Journal of World-Systems Research, 2006, 12 (1), 61-107
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1219
Inequalities and Their Measurement
Almas Heshmati
published in: A. Heshmati (Ed), Global Trends in Income Inequality, Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2007, 11-25
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1211
Do You Need a Job to Find a Job?
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Paul Frijters, Guyonne Kalb
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1141
Accounting for Income Distribution Trends: A Density Function Decomposition Approach
Stephen P. Jenkins, Philippe Van Kerm
published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2005, 3(1), 43–61
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1140
The Distribution of Wages in Belarus
Francesco Pastore, Alina Verashchagina
published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2006, 48 (3), 351-376
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1052
Consumption Smoothing and the Structure of Labor and Credit Markets
Giuseppe Bertola, Winfried Koeniger
published in: European Economic Review, 2007, 51 (8), 1941-1958
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1015
Analytical Prediction of Transitions Probabilities in the Conditional Logit Model
Holger Bonin, Hilmar Schneider
published in: Economics Letters, 2006, 90 (1), 102-107
IZA Discussion Paper No. 974
Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State? A Revised Version
Johannes Schwarze, Marco Härpfer
published in: Journal of Socio-Economics, 2007, 36 (2), 233-249
IZA Discussion Paper No. 955
Risky Human Capital Investment, Income Distribution, and Macroeconomic Dynamics
Volker Grossmann
published in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2008, 30 (1), 19-42
IZA Discussion Paper No. 917
A Note on the Redistributive Effect of Immigration
Rob Euwals, Hans Roodenburg
published in: Economics Letters, 2004, 85 (2), 241-256
IZA Discussion Paper No. 914
Bargained Wages, Wage Drift and the Design of the Wage Setting System
Ana Rute Cardoso, Pedro Portugal
published as 'Contractual wages and the wage cushion under different bargaining settings' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2005, 23 (4), 875-902
IZA Discussion Paper No. 912
An Experimental Study of the POUM Hypothesis
Daniele Checchi, Antonio Filippin
published in: Research on Economic Inequality, 2004, 11, 15-136
IZA Discussion Paper No. 847
Jacob Mincer, Experience and the Distribution of Earnings
Barry R. Chiswick
published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2003, 1 (4), 343-361
IZA Discussion Paper No. 788
Immigrants in the UK and in West Germany – Relative Income Position, Income Portfolio, and Redistribution Effects
Felix Büchel, Joachim R. Frick
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2004, 17 (3), 553–581
IZA Discussion Paper No. 767
Estimating Distributions of Treatment Effects with an Application to the Returns to Schooling and Measurement of the Effects of Uncertainty on College Choice
Pedro Carneiro, Karsten T. Hansen, James J. Heckman
published in: International Economic Review, 2003, 44 (2), 361-422
IZA Discussion Paper No. 713
Does the Glass Ceiling Exist? A Cross-National Perspective on Gender Income Mobility
Ira N. Gang, John Landon-Lane, Myeong-Su Yun
IZA Discussion Paper No. 694
What Determines the Reservation Wages of Unemployed Workers? New Evidence from German Micro Data
Eswar Prasad
published in: Gabriel Fagan, Francesco Mongelli and Julian Morgan (eds.), Institutions and Wage Formation in the New Europe: Proceedings of the ECB's Annual Labor Market Workshop, London: Edward Elgar, 2004
IZA Discussion Paper No. 691
Scale Effects in Markets with Search
Barbara Petrongolo, Christopher A. Pissarides
published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (508), 21-44
IZA Discussion Paper No. 686
Permanent and Transitory Wage Inequality of British Men, 1975-2001: Year, Age and Cohort Effects
Adriaan Kalwij, Rob Alessie
published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2007, 22 (6), 1063 - 1093
IZA Discussion Paper No. 639
Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?
Gilles Saint-Paul
published in: Labour Economics, 2004, 11 (1), 129-144
IZA Discussion Paper No. 639
Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?
Gilles Saint-Paul
published in: Labour Economics, 2004, 11 (1), 129-144
IZA Discussion Paper No. 625
Endogenous Wage and Capital Dispersion, On-the-Job Search and the Matching Technology
Fernando Galindo-Rueda
IZA Discussion Paper No. 608
Economic Aspects of Human Cloning and Reprogenetics
Gilles Saint-Paul
published in: Economic Policy, 2003, 18 (36), 73-122
IZA Discussion Paper No. 580
Gender Differences in German Upward Income Mobility
Ira N. Gang, John Landon-Lane, Myeong-Su Yun
published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften /Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2003, 123(1), 3-14
IZA Discussion Paper No. 538
The Pension Transfer Program
Mike Orszag, Dennis J. Snower
IZA Discussion Paper No. 532
From Unemployment Benefits to Unemployment Accounts
Mike Orszag, Dennis J. Snower
IZA Discussion Paper No. 453
Removing the Veil of Ignorance in Assessing the Distributional Impacts of Social Policies
Pedro Carneiro, Karsten T. Hansen, James J. Heckman
published in: Swedish Policy Review, 2001, 8 (2), 273-301
IZA Discussion Paper No. 430
Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State? Evidence From German Longitudinal Data on Life Satisfaction
Johannes Schwarze, Marco Härpfer
published in: Journal of Socio-Economics, 2007, 36 (2), 233 - 249
IZA Discussion Paper No. 364
Examining the Impact of Macro-Economic Conditions on Income Inequality
Markus Jäntti, Stephen P. Jenkins
published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2010, 8(2), 221–240
IZA Discussion Paper No. 356
The Distributional Impact of Social Transfers in the European Union: Evidence from the ECHP
Christopher Heady, Theodore Mitrakos, Panos Tsakloglou
published in: Fiscal Studies, 2001, 22 (4), 547-565
IZA Discussion Paper No. 350
Unemployment Duration: Competing and Defective Risks
John T. Addison, Pedro Portugal
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2003, 38 (1), 156-191
IZA Discussion Paper No. 281
Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites
Gilles Saint-Paul
published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2007, 137 (1), 104-126
IZA Discussion Paper No. 273
Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs
Gilles Saint-Paul
published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (511), 382-407
IZA Discussion Paper No. 267
The Distribution of Wages in Transition Countries
Andrew T. Newell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 253
Living Standards and Economic Vulnerability in Turkey between 1987 and 1994
Ruslan Yemtsov
IZA Discussion Paper No. 231
The Economics of Human Cloning
Gilles Saint-Paul
published as 'Economic aspects of human cloning and reprogenetics' in: Economic Policy, 2003, 18 (36), 72 - 122
IZA Discussion Paper No. 222
Betit: A Family That Nests Probit and Logit
Wim P. Vijverberg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 198
A Forgotten Issue: Distributional Effects of Day Care Subsidies in Germany
Michaela Kreyenfeld, C. Katharina Spieß, Gert G. Wagner
published in: European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2003, 11 (2), 159-175
IZA Discussion Paper No. 161
Public Employment and Redistributive Politics: Evidence from Russia’s Regions
Vladimir Gimpelson, Daniel Treisman, Galina Monusova
revised version published as 'Fiscal Games and Public Employment: A Theory with Evidence from Russia' in: World Politics, 2002, 54 (2), 145-183
IZA Discussion Paper No. 125
The Income Portfolio of Immigrants in Germany - Effects of Ethnic Origin and Assimilation Or: Who Gains from Income Re-Distribution?
Felix Büchel, Joachim R. Frick
published as 'Income Composition and Redistribution in Germany: The Role of Ethnic Origin and Assimilation' in: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly Journal of Economic Research, 2001, 70 (1), 135-145
IZA Discussion Paper No. 78
Endogenous Schooling and the Distribution of the Gender Wage Gap
Jörgen Hansen, Roger Wahlberg
published in: Empirical Economics, 2005, 30 (1), 1-22
IZA Discussion Paper No. 40
Empirical Findings on the Swiss Migration Experience
Stefan M. Golder, Thomas Straubhaar
published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.): European Migration - What Do We Know?, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005
IZA Discussion Paper No. 29
Causes of Changing Earnings Inequality
Dennis J. Snower
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