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41 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17602
Gender and Top Lifetime Earnings Inequality: Ten New Facts from Brazil
Tomás R. Martinez, Antonio Martins-Neto, Ursula Mello
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17567
The Diverging Trends of Male and Female Bottom Earnings in Germany
Eliana Coschignano, Robin Jessen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17523
Immigration, Inequality and Income Taxes
Mirjam Bächli, Albrecht Glitz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16898
Bad Times, Bad Jobs? How Recessions Affect Early Career Trajectories
Parag Mahajan, Dhiren Patki, Heiko Stüber
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16874
Declining Earnings Inequality, Rising Income Inequality: What Explains Discordant Inequality Trends in the United States?
Lukas Lehner, Zachary Parolin, Nathan Wilmers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16693
The Role of Industries in Rising Inequality
Juraj Briskar, Edoardo di Porto, José V. Rodriguez Mora, Cristina Tealdi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15824
Skills, Parental Sorting, and Child Inequality
Martin Nybom, Erik Plug, Bas van der Klaauw, Lennart Ziegler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15759
Hours Inequality
Daniele Checchi, Cecilia Garca-Peñalosa, Lara Vivian
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15337
'Since You're So Rich, You Must Be Really Smart': Talent, Rent Sharing, and the Finance Wage Premium
Michael Johannes Böhm, Daniel Metzger, Per Strömberg
published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2023, 90 (5), 2215–2260,
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15174
Misallocation and Inequality
Nezih Guner, Alessandro Ruggieri
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15014
Firm Pay Dynamics
Niklas Engbom, Christian Moser, Jan Sauermann
published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2023, 233 (1), 396 - 423
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14302
Minimum Wages in New Zealand: Policy and Practice in the 21st Century
David C. Maré, Dean R. Hyslop
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13643
Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the CARES Act on Earnings and Inequality
Matias Cortes, Eliza Forsythe
published as 'Distributional Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the CARES Act' in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2023, 21 (2), 325-349.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13016
Hours Worked and the U.S. Distribution of Real Annual Earnings 1976–2016
Iván Fernández-Val, Franco Peracchi, Aico van Vuuren, Francis Vella
published in: Journal of Applied Economics, 2024, 39 (4), 659 - 678
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12942
Do Cash Windfalls Affect Wages? Evidence from R&D Grants to Small Firms
Sabrina T. Howell, J. David Brown
published in: Review of Financial Studies, 2023, 36 (5), 1889 - 1929
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. 10829
Top Earnings Inequality and the Gender Pay Gap: Canada, Sweden and the United Kingdom
Nicole M. Fortin, Brian Bell, Michael Johannes Böhm
published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 47, 107 - 123
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10718
Skill Premium, Labor Supply and Changes in the Structure of Wages in Latin America
Manuel Fernandez Sierra, Julián Messina
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2018, 135, 555-573
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10656
Ageing Poorly? Accounting for the Decline in Earnings Inequality in Brazil, 1995-2012
Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Sergio Firpo, Julián Messina
published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2022, 36 (1), 37-67
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9715
The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Earnings Inequality: Evidence from China
Carl Lin, Myeong-Su Yun
published in: Research in Labor Economics (Income Inequality Around the World), 2016, 44, 179-212
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8482
Beyond Inequality Accounting: Marital Sorting and Couple Labor Supply
Nico Pestel
published as 'Marital Sorting, Inequality and the Role of Female Labour Supply: Evidence from East and West Germany' in: Economica , 2017, 84 (333), 104-127
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8437
It's Where You Work: Increases in Earnings Dispersion across Establishments and Individuals in the U.S.
Erling Barth, Alex Bryson, James C. Davis, Richard B. Freeman
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2106, 34 (S2), S67- S97
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8222
Educational Policies and Income Inequality
Daniele Checchi, Herman G. van de Werfhorst
published in Socio-Economic Review, 2018, 16 (1), 137 - 160
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6669
The Cycle of Earnings Inequality: Evidence from Spanish Social Security Data
Stephane Bonhomme, Laura Hospido
published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (603), 1244–1278
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4919
Economic Reform, Education Expansion, and Earnings Inequality for Urban Males in China, 1988-2007
Xin Meng, Kailing Shen, Sen Xue
published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2013, 41 (1), 227–244
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3801
Intergenerational Top Income Mobility in Sweden: A Combination of Equal Opportunity and Capitalistic Dynasties
Anders Björklund, Jesper Roine, Daniel Waldenström
revised version published as 'Intergenerational top income mobility in Sweden: Capitalist dynasties in the land of equal opportunity?' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2012, 96 (5-6), 474-484
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3751
Dynamics of Earnings and Hourly Wages in Germany
Michal Myck, Richard Ochmann, Salmai Qari
revised version published as 'Dynamics in Transitory and Permanent Variation of Wages in Germany' in: Economics Letters, 2011, 113 (2), 143 - 146
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3684
Distribution of Wealth and Interdependent Preferences
Andrew Grodner, Thomas J. Kniesner
published in: Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2010, 6 (4), 265-366
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3270
Earnings Instability and Earnings Inequality in Urban China: 1989–2006
Zhong Zhao
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2636
Earnings Inequality in Europe: Structure and Patterns of Inter-Temporal Changes
Ioannis Cholezas, Panos Tsakloglou
published in: P. Dolton, R. Asplund and E. Barth (eds), Education and Inequality across Europe, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham: 2009, 122-146
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2235
Earnings Inequality and Market Work in Husband-Wife Families
John H. Pencavel
published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2007, 26, 1-37
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2062
Incentives for Managers and Inequality Among Workers: Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment
Oriana Bandiera, Iwan Barankay, Imran Rasul
published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007, 122 (2), 729-773
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2050
Ethnic Specialization and Earnings Inequality: Why Being a Minority Hurts but Being a Big Minority Hurts More
Martin Kahanec
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1938
American Exceptionalism in a New Light: A Comparison of Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in the Nordic Countries, the United Kingdom and the United States
Markus Jäntti, Bernt Bratsberg, Knut Røed, Oddbjørn Raaum, Robin Naylor, Eva Österbacka, Anders Björklund, Tor Eriksson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1872
Two Faces of the ICT Revolution: Desegregation and Minority-Majority Earnings Inequality
Martin Kahanec
IZA Discussion Paper No. 441
Earnings Inequality and Transition: A Regional Analysis of Poland
Christopher W. Sibley, Patrick Paul Walsh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 410
Wage Arrears and the Distribution of Earnings in Russia
Hartmut Lehmann, Jonathan Wadsworth
published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2007, 26, 125-155
IZA Discussion Paper No. 167
Earnings Inequality, Returns to Education and Immigration into Ireland
Alan Barrett, John FitzGerald, Brian Nolan
published in: Labour Economics, 2002, 9 (5), 665-680
IZA Discussion Paper No. 160
A Comparison of the Human Capital and Signaling Models: The Case of the Self-Employed and the Increase in the Schooling Premium in the 1980's
Magnus Lofstrom
published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2001, 20, 191-215
IZA Discussion Paper No. 158
Brother Correlations in Earnings in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden Compared to the United States
Anders Björklund, Tor Eriksson, Markus Jäntti, Oddbjørn Raaum, Eva Österbacka
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 15 (4), 2002, 757-772
IZA Discussion Paper No. 120
Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries
Pedro T. Pereira, Pedro S. Martins
published in: Labour Economics, 2004, 11 (3), 355-371
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