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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...

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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 …

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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...

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Welfare, Labor Supply and Heterogeneous Preferences : Evidence for Europe and the US

Bargain, Olivier - 2011

Following the report of the Stiglitz Commission, measuring and comparing well-being across countries has gained renewed interest. Yet, analyses that go beyond income and incorporate non-market dimensions of welfare most often rely on the assumption of identical preferences to avoid the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118277

Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US

Bargain, Olivier - 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...

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Comparing Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US : New Results

Bargain, Olivier - 2012

We suggest the first large-scale international comparison of labor supply elasticities for 17 European countries and the US, separately by gender and marital status. Measurement differences are netted out by using a harmonized empirical approach and comparable data sources. We find that own-wage...

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Fiscal Union in Europe? Redistributive and Stabilising Effects of an EU Tax-Benefit System

Bargain, Olivier - 2012

The current debt crisis has given rise to a debate about deeper fiscal integration in Europe. The view is widespread that moving towards a 'fiscal union' would have a stabilising effect in the event of macroeconomic shocks. In this paper we study the economic effects of introducing two elements...

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Steady-State Labor Supply Elasticities : A Survey

Bargain, Olivier - 2013

Previous reviews of static labor supply estimations concentrate mainly on the evidence from the 1980s and 1990s, Anglo-Saxon countries and early generations of labor supply modeling. This paper provides a fresh characterization of steady-state labor supply elasticities for Western Europe and the...

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Flexible Labor Supply Models

Bargain, Olivier - 2009

Discrete-choice models of labor supply have become very popular for ex ante evaluations of policy reforms as they easily account for non-convex budget sets. We test the constraints imposed in practice on these models and suggest a fully flexible model that significantly improves fit

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'Making Work Pay' in a Rationed Labor Market

Bargain, Olivier - 2006

individuals with low earnings. In assessing the policies we account for demand-side constraints by using a double-hurdle model. We …

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