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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 ...
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) ...