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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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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. 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 ...
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, ...