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The informal sector wage gap : new evidence using quantile estimations on panel data
Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2009
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 across countries. We compute precise wage differentials by accounting for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009724405
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Caught in the trap? : the disincentive effect of social assistance
Bargain, Olivier; Doorley, Karina - 2009
While financial incentives usually have a significant effect on the labor supply of married women and single mothers, the evidence about the participation elasticity of childless singles, and single males especially, is more scant. This is, however, important in countries like France and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009725007
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Is informality bad? : evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa
Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2010
better this highly heterogeneous sector, we conduct a distributional analysis of the earnings gap between informal and formal … significant earnings premium that may compensate the benefits obtained in formal jobs. In the lower end of the earnings … distribution, both informal wage earners and independent (own account) workers face significant earnings penalties vis-à-vis the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009725463
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Caught in the Trap? The Disincentive Effect of Social Assistance
Bargain, Olivier - 2014
While financial incentives usually have a significant effect on the labor supply of married women and single mothers, the evidence about the participation elasticity of childless singles, and single males especially, is more scant. This is, however, important in countries like France and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070984
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Is Informality Bad? Evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa
Bargain, Olivier - 2015
better this highly heterogeneous sector, we conduct a distributional analysis of the earnings gap between informal and formal … significant earnings premium that may compensate the benefits obtained in formal jobs. In the lower end of the earnings … distribution, both informal wage earners and independent (own account) workers face significant earnings penalties vis-à-vis the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039148
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The Informal Sector Wage Gap : New Evidence Using Quantile Estimations on Panel Data
Bargain, Olivier - 2009
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 across countries. We compute precise wage differentials by accounting for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158055
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On modeling household labor supply with taxation
Bargain, Olivier (contributor) - 2007
Discrete choice models of labor supply easily account for nonlinearty 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. In this paper, we question whether the degree of flexibility and the implicit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003616594
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In-work transfers in good times and bad : simulations for Ireland
Bargain, Olivier; Doorley, Karina - 2009
analysis of the capacity of alternative in-work transfer scenarios to cushion the negative impact of earnings losses and cuts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009725470
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Female labor supply and divorce : new evidence from Ireland
Bargain, Olivier; Keane, Claire; González, Libertad; … - 2010
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. This simple prediction has been tested in the literature using time and/or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009729279
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Labor supply elasticities in Europe and the US
Bargain, Olivier; Orsini, Kristian; Peichl, Andreas - 2011
Despite numerous studies on labor supply, the size of elasticities is rarely comparable across countries. In this paper, we suggest the first large-scale international comparison of elasticities, while netting out possible differences due to methods, data selection and the period of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009731759