IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3248

Sweden's Pensioners: How They Have Fared in the Roller Coaster Ride through the Past Decade and a Half of Deep Recession and Economic Exuberance

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Mats Johansson, Edward Palmer

revised version published as "The Welfare of Sweden's Old-age Pensioners in Times of Bust and Boom from 1990" in: Ageing and Society, 2009, 29 (4), 539-561

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3243

A New Unified Theory of Sociobehavioral Forces

Guillermina Jasso

published in: European Sociological Review, 2008, 24 (4), 411-434

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3239

Heterogeneous Life-Cycle Profiles, Income Risk and Consumption Inequality

Giorgio E. Primiceri, Thijs van Rens

published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2009, 56(1), 20-39

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3236

Distributive Justice and CEO Compensation

Guillermina Jasso, Eva M. Meyersson Milgrom

published in: Acta Sociologica, 2008, 51 (2), 123-143

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3223

Revolution and Family in Rural China: Influence of Family Background on Current Family Wealth

Hiroshi Sato, Shi Li

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3203

Measurement and Analysis of Child Well-Being in Middle and High Income Countries

Almas Heshmati, Chemen S. J. Bajalan, Arno Tausch

published in: European Journal of Comparative Economics, 2008, 5(2), 227-249

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3201

Inequalities Within Couples: Market Incomes and the Role of Taxes and Benefits in Europe

Francesco Figari, Herwig Immervoll, Horacio Levy, Holly Sutherland

revised version published in: Eastern Economic Journal, 2011, 37, 344-366

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3195

Direct Evidence on Income Comparisons and their Welfare Effects

Claudia Senik

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 72 (1), 408-424

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3185

Economic and Ethnic Polarisation among Children in Sweden’s Three Metropolitan Areas

Danuta Biterman, Björn Anders Gustafsson, Torun Österberg

published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften / Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2008, 128 (1), 121 - 152

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3184

Earnings Mobility in Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela: Testing the Divergence of Earnings and the Symmetry of Mobility Hypotheses

Gary S. Fields, Robert Duval Hernández, Samuel Freije-Rodriguez, Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2015, 13, 103-128.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3177

How Reliable Are Income Data Collected with a Single Question?

John Micklewright, Sylke V. Schnepf

revised version published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2010, 173 (2), 409-430

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3142

Is a Flat Tax Feasible in a Grown-up Welfare State?

Clemens Fuest, Andreas Peichl, Thilo Schaefer

revised version published as "Is a flat tax reform feasible in a grown-up democracy of Western Europe? A simulation study for Germany" in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2008, 15 (5), 620-636

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3089

Wealth and Asset Holdings of Immigrants in Germany

Mathias Sinning

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3014

What Is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research

Mirjam C. van Praag, Peter H. Versloot

published in: Small Business Economics, 2007, 29 (4), 351-382

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3004

How Tight Are Safety-Nets in Nordic Countries? Evidence from Finnish Register Data

Olivier B. Bargain, Herwig Immervoll, Heikki Viitamäki

substantially revised version: IZA DP 5355 / published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2012, 10 (3), 375-395

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2911