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50 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17690
Human Capital Spillovers and the External Returns to Education
Pedro Portugal, Hugo Reis, Paulo Guimaraes, Ana Rute Cardoso
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16514
The Minimum Wage, Turnover, and the Shape of the Wage Distribution
Pierre Brochu, David A. Green, Thomas Lemieux, James Townsend
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16078
Shifts in Composition of Jobs: Upgrading, Downgrading or Polarization? The Case of Russia 2000-2019
Vladimir Gimpelson, Rostislav Kapeliushnikov
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15258
The Distribution of the Gender Wage Gap: An Equilibrium Model
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Manuel Fernandez Sierra, Fan Wang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14177
The Gender Pay Gap in UK Medicine
Melanie K. Jones, Ezgi Kaya
published as 'The gender pay gap in medicine: evidence from Britain' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2024, 76 (4), 1033 - 1051
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13356
Reconciling Changes in Wage Inequality with Changes in College Selectivity Using a Behavioral Model
Christian Belzil, Jörgen Hansen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11640
The Distribution of the Gender Wage Gap
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Manuel Fernandez Sierra
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11584
Two Stories of Wage Dynamics in Latin America: Different Policies, Different Outcomes
Gustavo J. Canavire Bacarreza, Luis C. Carvajal-Osorio
published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2020, 41, 128–168,
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11519
Employer Power, Labor Saving Technical Change, and Inequality
Nancy H. Chau, Ravi Kanbur
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. 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. 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. 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. 10820
Social Comparisons in Oligopsony
Laszlo Goerke, Michael Neugart
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 141, 196-209
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 8124
The Long-term Impact of the 1995 Hanshin–Awaji Earthquake on Wage Distribution
Fumio Ohtake, Naoko Okuyama, Masaru Sasaki, Kengo Yasui
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7811
What Drives the Urban Wage Premium? Evidence along the Wage Distribution
Alessia Matano, Paolo Naticchioni
published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2016, 56 (2), 191 - 209
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7708
What If You Had Been Less Fortunate: The Effects of Poor Family Background on Current Labor Market Outcomes
Sungwook Cho, Almas Heshmati
published in: Journal of Economic Studies, 2015, 42 (1), 20-33.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7699
Aggregation and Labor Supply Elasticities
Alois Kneip, Monika Merz, Lidia Storjohann
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18, 2315-2358
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7303
The Assignment of Workers to Tasks with Endogenous Supply of Skills
Arnaud Dupuy
published in: Economica, 2015, 82 (325), 24-45.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6501
Sorting and Local Wage and Skill Distributions in France
Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon, Sébastien Roux
published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2012, 42 (6), 913-930
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6364
Misspecification Testing in a Class of Conditional Distributional Models
Christoph Rothe, Dominik Wied
published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2013, 108 (501), 314-324
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6111
Emigration and Wages: The EU Enlargement Experiment
Benjamin Elsner
published in: Journal of International Economics, 2013, 91(1), 154-163
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5708
The Aftermath of Reunification: Sectoral Transition, Gender, and Rising Wage Inequality in East Germany
Karsten Kohn, Dirk Antonczyk
published in: Economics of Transition, 2013, 21 (1), 73-110
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5014
Earnings Dynamics and Inequality among Men in Luxembourg, 1988-2004: Evidence from Administrative Data
Denisa Maria Sologon, Cathal O'Donoghue
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4949
The Minimum Wage in a Deflationary Economy: The Japanese Experience, 1994-2003
Ryo Kambayashi, Daiji Kawaguchi, Ken Yamada
published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24, 264-276
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4929
Labor Market and Income Effects of a Legal Minimum Wage in Germany
Kai-Uwe Müller, Viktor Steiner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4911
Rising Wage Inequality, the Decline of Collective Bargaining, and the Gender Wage Gap
Dirk Antonczyk, Bernd Fitzenberger, Katrin Sommerfeld
published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (5), 835-847
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4642
Equalizing or Disequalizing Lifetime Earnings Differentials? Earnings Mobility in the EU: 1994-2001
Denisa Maria Sologon, Cathal O'Donoghue
published in: John A. Bishop and Rafael Salas (eds.), Inequality, Mobility, and Segregation: Essays in Honor of Jacques Silber (Research in Economic Inequality, Vol 20), 2012, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 237-283
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4311
Increased Opportunity to Move Up the Economic Ladder? Earnings Mobility in EU: 1994-2001
Denisa Maria Sologon, Cathal O'Donoghue
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4151
Policy, Institutional Factors and Earnings Mobility
Denisa Maria Sologon, Cathal O'Donoghue
published in: The European Journal of Comparative Economics, 2011, 8(2), pp. 175-202
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4130
Wages and Seniority When Coworkers Matter: Estimating a Joint Production Economy Using Norwegian Administrative Data
Christopher Ferrall, Kjell G. Salvanes, Erik Ø. Sørensen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4012
Earnings Dynamics and Inequality among Men across 14 EU Countries, 1994-2001: Evidence from ECHP
Denisa Maria Sologon, Cathal O'Donoghue
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3760
Privatization and Changes in the Wage Structure: Evidence from Firm Personnel Records
Blaise Melly, Patrick A. Puhani
published under revised title in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (4), 918-944
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3491
Would a Legal Minimum Wage Reduce Poverty? A Microsimulation Study for Germany
Kai-Uwe Müller, Viktor Steiner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3154
Educational Self-Selection, Tasks Assignment and Rising Wage Inequality
Arnaud Dupuy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2695
Endogenous Job Destruction and Job Matching in Cities
Yves Zenou
published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2009, 65 (3), 323-336
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2598
A New Continuous Distribution and Two New Families of Distributions Based on the Exponential
Guillermina Jasso, Samuel Kotz
published in: Statistica Neerlandica, 2007, 61(3), 305-328
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2474
Works Councils and the Anatomy of Wages
John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira, Thomas Zwick
published as 'German Work Councils and the Anatomy of Wages' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2010, 63(2), 247-270
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2456
Employment Fluctuations and Dynamics of the Aggregate Average Wage in Poland 1996-2003
Michal Myck, Leszek Morawski, Jerzy Mycielski
published in: Economics of Transition, 2007, 15(4), 759-799
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. 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. 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. 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. 267
The Distribution of Wages in Transition Countries
Andrew T. Newell
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