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Aides au retour à l'emploi et activité des femmes en couple

Bargain, Olivier (Presses de Sciences Po, 2004-01)

Le débat sur les incitations financières à la reprise d’une activité ne s’est pas éteint avec l’instauration de la Prime pour l’emploi. Notamment, le traitement de la dimension familiale dans les aides à l’emploi est un ...
Analysing the effects of tax-benefit reforms on income distribution : a decomposition approach

Bargain, Olivier ; Callan, Tim (University College Dublin. School of EconomicsUniversity College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2007-08)

To assess the impact of tax-benefit policy changes on income distribution over time, we suggest a methodology based on counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposing changes in inequality/poverty indices into three ...
Back to the future - decomposition analysis of distributive policies using behavioural simulations

Bargain, Olivier (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-10)

For policy makers and analysts, it is important to isolate the redistributive impact of tax-benefit policy changes from changes in the environment in which policies operate. When actual reforms are motivated by work ...
Beans for breakfast? How exportable is the British workfare model?

Bargain, Olivier ; Orsini, Kristian (Emerald, 2006)

Social assistance and inactivity traps have long been considered as one of the main causes of the poor employment performance of EU countries. The success of New Labour in the UK has triggered a growing interests in ...
Beans for breakfast? How exportable is the British workfare model?

Orsini, Kristian ; Bargain, Olivier (The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 2006-03)

Social assistance and inactivity traps have long been considered amongst the main causes of the poor employment performance of EU countries. The success of New Labour has triggered a growing interests in instruments capable ...
Caught in the trap? The disincentive effect of social assistance

Bargain, Olivier ; Doorley, Karina (University College Dublin. School of EconomicsUniversity College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2009-07)

While …financial incentives usually have a signifi…cant effect on the labor supply of married women and single mothers, the evidence about the participation elasticity of childless singles, and single males especially, ...
Collective models of labor supply with nonconvex budget sets and nonparticipation : a calibration approach

Bargain, Olivier ; Vermeulen, Frederic ; Beblo, Miriam ; Beninger, Denis ; Blundell, Richard ; Carrasco, Raquel ; Chiuri, Maria-Concetta ; Laisney, François ; Lechene, Valérie ; Moreau, Nicolas ; Myck, Michal ; Ruiz-Castillo, Javier (Springer Netherlands, 2006)

We suggest a methodology to calibrate a collective model with household-specific bargaining rules and marriage-specific preferences that incorporate leisure externalities. The empirical identification relies on the assumption ...
Distributional consequences of labor demand adjustments to a downturn : a model-based approach with application to Germany 2008-09

Bargain, Olivier ; Immervoll, Herwig ; Peichl, Andreas ; Siegloch, Sebastian (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-10)

Macro-level changes can have substantial effects on the distribution of resources at the household level. While it is possible to speculate about which groups are likely to be hardest-hit, detailed distributional studies ...
The distributional effects of tax-benefit policies under New Labour : a Shapley decomposition

Bargain, Olivier (University College Dublin. School of EconomicsUniversity College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2009-02)

Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it possible to disentangle and quantify the relative effect of tax-benefi…t policy changes, compared to ...
Does taxation affect intrahousehold distribution? A simulation approach

Bargain, Olivier ; Moreau, Nicolas (Elsevier, 2007)

The literature on household behavior contains hardly any empirical research on the within household distributional effects of tax-benefit policies. We simulate this effect in the framework of a collective model of labor ...
Does the representation of household behavior matter for welfare analysis of tax-benefit policies? An introduction

Bargain, Olivier ; Chiuri, Maria-Concetta ; Laisney, François ; Lechene, Valérie ; Moreau, Nicolas ; Myck, Michal ; Ruiz-Castillo, Javier ; Vermeulen, Frederic (Springer Netherlands, 2006)

A widely shared intuition holds that individual control over money matters for the decision process within the household and the subsequent distribution of re- sources and welfare. As a consequence, there are good reasons ...
Effets d'une réforme fiscale sur l'offre de travail des ménages dans un cadre collectif simulé

Bargain, Olivier ; Moreau, Nicolas (École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Montréal, 2006)

La littérature contient très peu de recherches empiriques concernant les effets distributifs du système sociofiscal à l’intérieur du ménage. Nous simulons cet effet dans le cadre du modèle collectif d’offre de travail ...
Evaluating the move to a linear tax system in Germany and other European countries

Bargain, Olivier ; Beninger, Denis ; Beblo, Miriam ; Blundell, Richard ; Carrasco, Raquel ; Chiuri, Maria-Concetta ; Laisney, François ; Lechene, Valérie ; Longobardi, Ernesto ; Moreau, Nicolas ; Myck, Michal ; Ruiz-Castillo, Javier ; Vermeulen, Frederic (Springer Netherlands, 2006)

This paper proposes a comparison of the results of tax policy analysis obtained on the basis of unitary and collective representations of the household. We first generate labour supplies consistent with the collective ...
Female labor supply and divorce : new evidence from Ireland

Bargain, Olivier ; Keane, Claire (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-10)

If participation in the labor market helps to secure women's outside options in the case of divorce/separation, an increase in the perceived risk of marital dissolution may accelerate the increase in female labor supply. ...
The formal sector wage premium and firm size for self-employed workers

Bargain, Olivier ; Badaoui, Eliane ; Kwenda, Prudence ; Strobl, Eric ; Walsh, Frank (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2012-03)

We develop a model where workers may enter self-employment or search for jobs as employees and where there is heterogeneity across workers’ managerial ability. Workers with higher skills will manage larger firms while ...
How tight are safety-nets in Nordic countries? : evidence from Finnish register data

Bargain, Olivier ; Immervoll, Herwig ; Viitamäki, Heikki (University College Dublin; School of EconomicsUCD Geary Institute, 2007-08)

The non take-up of social assistance benefits due to claim costs may seriously limit the anti-poverty effect of these programs. Yet, available evidence is fragmented and mostly relies on interview-based data, potentially ...
The informal sector wage gap : new evidence using quantile estimations on panel data

Bargain, Olivier ; Kwenda, Prudence (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2009-05)

This paper provides new evidence on the wage gap between informal and formal salary workers in South Africa, Brazil and Mexico. We use rich datasets that allow us to de…fine informality in a relatively comparable fashion ...
The informal sector wage gap : new evidence using quantile estimations on panel data

Bargain, Olivier ; Kwenda, Prudence (University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2009-06)

This paper provides new evidence on the wage gap between informal and formal salary workers in South Africa, Brazil and Mexico. We use rich datasets that allow us to define informality in a relatively comparable fashion ...
In-work policies in Europe : killing two birds with one stone?

Bargain, Olivier ; Orsini, Kristian (Elsevier Science, 2006)

Generous social assistance has been held responsible for inactivity traps and social exclusion in several European countries, hence the recent trend of promoting employment through in-work transfers. Yet, the relative ...
In-work transfers in good times and bad - simulations for Ireland

Bargain, Olivier ; Doorley, Karina (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2009-12)

In-work transfers are often seen as a good trade-off between redistribution and efficiency, as they alleviate poverty among low-wage households while increasing …nancial incentives to work. The present study explores the ...