Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES

• Behavioural responses to taxes and optimal taxation of top labour incomes in Croatia. Forthcoming in Panoeconomicus, 2025. (with Marko Ledić)

• Nejednakosti inflacije u Hrvatskoj [Inflation inequality in Croatia]. Revija za socijalnu politiku [Croatian Journal of Social Policy], 2024. (with Marina Tkalec and Ivan Žilić) [download]

  • • • media coverage: Večernji list, Slobodna Dalmacija, T-Portal, Lider

• Using tax records to correct for under-representation of top income sources in survey data. Fiscal Studies, 45(4), 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 [Croatian Journal of Social Policy], 29(2), 2022.

• Tax progressivity and social welfare with a continuum of inequality views. International Tax and Public Finance, 30, 2022. (with Marko Ledić and Ivica Urban) [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]

  • • • media coverage: Portal Novosti, Jutarnji list, Slobodna Dalmacija

• 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]

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS AND CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

• The flip side of the green transition: prevalence of dirty jobs in the Croatian economy. In: Družić, G., and T. Gelo (eds.), Conference Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Economics of the Decoupling (ICED) (Zagreb, 2-3 December 2024), 2025. (with Marko Ledić and Valerija Botrić) [download]  

• Youth in New Europe: economic activity and EU policy preferences. In: Lebedinski, L., D. Pavlović, and S. Vujić (eds.), Human Capital and Welfare, University of Antwerpen, Antwerpen, 2022. (with Valerija Botrić) [download]

• Abandoning Reduced VAT Rates on Food to Increase the Amount and Coverage of Child Benefit: Simulation of Distributive Effects in Croatia. Conference. Proceedings of the 27th RSEP International Conference on Economics, Finance & Business (Madrid, 8-9 September 2022), 2022.  [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]