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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 ...
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 ...
Monotonicity and the Roy model

Chevalier, Arnaud ; Lanot, Gauthier (University College Dublin. Institute for the Study of Social Change (Geary Institute), 2002-05)

In this note we study the implications on a bivariate normal Roy Model of two sets of monotonicity hypotheses proposed recently by Manski and Pepper (2000). In that simple context, we show that these hypotheses imply strong ...
On modeling household labor supply with taxation

Bargain, Olivier (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2007-08)

Discrete choice models of labor supply easily account for nonlinearity and nonconvexity in budget sets caused by tax-benefit systems. As a result, they have become very popular for ex ante evaluations of policy reforms. ...
Sample selection versus two-part models revisited : the case of female smoking and drinking

Madden, David (David Patrick) (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2006-04)

There is a well-established debate between Heckman sample selection and two-part models in health econometrics, particularly when no obvious exclusion restrictions are available. Most of this debate has focussed on the ...
Smoke and strong whiskey : factors influencing female smoking and drinking in Ireland

Madden, David (David Patrick) (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2002-02)

This paper analyses decisions regarding smoking and drinking for a sample of Irish women. Double-hurdle models are estimated to determine whether decisions to smoke/drink are made independently of how much to smoke/drink. ...
Who are the self-employed? A new approach

Farrell, Lisa ; Brown, Sarah ; Harris, Mark N. (Monash University, Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, 2003)

Modelling the incidence of self-employment has traditionally proved problematic. Whilst the individual supply side characteristics of the self-employed are well documented, the literature has largely neglected (or misspecified) ...