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Assessing the impact of public transfers on private risk sharing arrangements : evidence from a randomized experiment in Mexico

Pavan, Marina ; Colussi, Aldo (University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2008-02-27)

We adopt a structural approach to studying the effects of public transfers on consumption smoothing, risk sharing and welfare in small village economies. We calibrate the key parameters of a dynamic limited commitment model ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
No claim, no pain - measuring the non-take-up of social assistance using register data

Bargain, Olivier ; Immervoll, Herwig ; Viitamäki, Heikki (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2009-12)

The main objectives of social assistance bene…fits, including poverty alleviation and labor-market or social reintegration, can be seriously compromised if support is difficult to access. While recent studies point to ...
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. ...
Tax-benefit revealed redistributive preferences over time : Ireland 1987-2005

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

By inverting Saez (2002)'s model of optimal income taxation, we characterize the redistributive preferences of the Irish government between 1987 and 2005. The (marginal) social welfare function revealed by this approach ...
A theory of child targeting

Bargain, Olivier ; Donni, Olivier (University College Dublin; School of Economics, 2007-03)

There is a large empirical literature on policy measures targeted at children but surprisingly very little theoretical foundation to ground the debate on the optimality of the different instruments. In the present paper, ...