Ivica Rubil
About me
I'm an economist working on topics in public, welfare, and labour economics.
The keywords representative of my work are: inequality, income (re)distribution, distributional impact, poverty, living standard, well-being, welfare, tax-benefit microsimulation, job quality, wage gap.
I do occasional consultancy for the World Bank, the Croatian government, and others.
Contact
Ekonomski institut, Zagreb; Trg J.F. Kennedyja 7, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Publications
Journal articles and book chapters
Using tax records to correct for under-representation of top income sources in survey data. Fiscal Studies, 2024. (with Marko Ledić and Ivica Urban) [download]
Distributivni učinci ukidanja "socijalno motiviranih" sniženih stopa PDV-a radi povećanja izdašnosti i obuhvata ciljanih transfera: mikrosimulacijska analiza za Hrvatsku (Distributive impact of abolishing "socially motivated" reduced VAT rates to increase the generosity and coverage of targeted transfers: a microsimulation analysis for Croatia). Revija za socijalnu politiku, 29(2), 2022.
Tax progressivity and social welfare with a continuum of inequality views. International Tax and Public Finance, 2022. (with Marko Ledić and Ivica Urban) [download]
Youth in New Europe: economic activity and EU policy preferences. In: Lebedinski, L., D. Pavlović, and S. Vujić, Human Capital and Welfare, University of Antwerpen, Antwerpen, 2022. (with Valerija Botrić) [download]
Beyond wage gap, towards job quality gap: the role of inter-group differences in wages, non-wage job dimensions, and preferences. Social Indicators Research, 2021. (with Marko Ledić) [download]
Does going beyond income make a difference? Income vs. equivalent income in the EU over 2007-2011. Public Sector Economics, 44(4), 2020. (with Marko Ledić) [download]
More tourism, more crime: evidence from Croatia. Social Indicators Research, 147(2), 2020. (with Vedran Recher) [download]
Making work pay in Croatia: an ex-ante evaluation of two in-work benefits using miCROmod. International Journal of Microsimulation, 12(3), 2019. (with Slavko Bezeredi, Marko Ledić, and Ivica Urban) [download]
Decomposing the difference between well-being inequality and income inequality: method and application. Research on Economic Inequality, vol. 27, 2019. (with Marko Ledić) [download]
Dječje siromaštvo i strategije nošenja sa siromaštvom kućanstava u Hrvatskoj: kvantitativno-kvalitativna studija (Child poverty and household coping strategies in Croatia: a quantitative-qualitative study). Privredna kretanja i ekonomska politika, 26(2), 2017. (with Paul Stubbs and Siniša Zrinščak) [download]
Pre-crisis reforms, austerity measures and public-private wage gap in two emerging economies. Economic Systems, 41(2), 2017. (with Jelena Nikolić and Iva Tomić) [download]
Regional heterogeneity in growth and inequality elasticities of poverty in transition countries. Applied Economics Letters, 22(6), 2015. [download]
Analiza razlika u plaćama između javnog sektora, poduzeća u državnom vlasništvu i privatnog sektora u Hrvatskoj (Analysis of pay gaps between the public sector, state-owned enterprises and the private sector in Croatia). Privredna kretanja i ekonomska politika, 24(136), 2015. (with Danijel Nestić and Iva Tomić) [download]
Privatni izdaci za zdravstvo (Out-of-pocket health expenditures). In: Vehovec, M. (ed.), O zdravstvu iz ekonomske perspektive (On healthcare from an economic perspective), Ekonomski institut, Zagreb, 2014. (with Danijel Nestić) [download]
Project reports
Fiscal policies, inequality, and poverty in Croatia. Report, The World Bank. (with Nga Thi Viet Nguyen)
The employment and social situation in Croatia. DG for Internal Policies, Policy Department A: Economic and Scientific Policy, 2019. (with Iva Tomić, Danijel Nestić, and Paul Stubbs)
Job challenges in Slavonia, Croatia - A subnational labor market assessment. Jobs Working Paper, Issue No. 35, The World Bank, 2019 (with Luc Christiaensen, Celine Ferre, Teo Matković, and Tara Sharafundheen)
Child poverty and household coping strategies in Croatia / Dječje siromaštvo i strategije nošenja sa siromaštvom kućanstava u Hrvatskoj. The institute of Economics, Zagreb, 2017. (with Paul Stubbs, Marko Ledić, and Siniša Zrinščak)
Can people afford to pay for healthcare: new evidence on financial protection in Croatia. WHO Barcelona Office for Health Systems Strengthening, World Health Organization, 2018. (with Luka Vončina)
The distributional impact of taxes and social spending in Croatia. Policy Research Working Paper 8203, World Bank, 2017. (with Gabriela Inchauste)
Analiza plaća u javnom i privatnom sektoru u Hrvatskoj (Analysis of public- and private-sector wages in Croatia). Commissioned by Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Croatia, 2014. (with Danijel Nestić and Iva Tomić)
The employment and social situation in Croatia. European Parliament, DG for Internal Policies, Policy Department A: Economic and Scientific Policy, 2013. (with Iva Tomić, Danijel Nestić, and Paul Stubbs)
Učinak ukidanja nulte stope PDV-a na nejednakosti i siromaštvo (Abandoning the zero-rate of the VAT: effects on inequality and poverty). Study commissioned by Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Croatia, 2011. (with Danijel Nestić, Marko Olenković, and Sandra Švaljek)
Software
KAKSONGEN - Stata package that computes the decomposition of the welfare impact of taxation, developed by Ledić, Rubil and Urban (2020). The ado and help files and instructions for installation are available on GitHub. Last update: 12 July 2022.