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Welfare analysis and redistributive policies

Bargain, Olivier - 2017

Applied welfare analyses of redistributive systems nowadays benefit from powerful tax benefit microsimulation programs … a function - typically inequality or poverty indices - of household equivalized income. In parallel, economic research …

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Optimal commodity taxation and redistribution within households

Bargain, Olivier; Donni, Olivier - 2011

Using a collective model of consumption, we characterize optimal commodity taxes aimed at targeting specific individuals within the household. The main message is that distortionary indirect taxation can circumvent the agency problem of the household. Essentially, taxation should discourage less...

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Optimal commodity taxation and redistribution within households

Bargain, Olivier; Donni, Olivier - 2011

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A theory of child targeting

Bargain, Olivier (contributor); Donni, Olivier (contributor) - 2007

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, we examine the merit of targeting children through two general policies,...

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Robust inequality comparisons

Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne - 2010

curves which was proved to characterize two separate systems of nested subfamilies of inequality measures. This paper uses … the obtained characterization results to arrange the members of two different generalized Gini families of inequality … ranking of a set of Lorenz curves. From the weight-functions of these inequality measures we obtain intuitive interpretations …

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The formal sector wage premium and firm size for self-employed workers

Bargain, Olivier; El Badaoui, Eliane; Kwenda, Prudence; … - 2013

We develop a model where workers may enter self-employment or search for jobs as employees and where there is heterogeneity across workers’ managerial ability. Workers with higher skills will manage larger firms while workers with low managerial ability will run smaller firms and will be in...

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The formal sector wage premium and firm size for self-employed workers

Bargain, Olivier; El Badaoui, Eliane; Kwenda, Prudence; … - 2012

We develop a model where formal sector firms pay tax and informal ones do not, but informal firms risk incurring the penalty associated with non-compliance. Workers may enter self-employment or search for jobs as employees. Workers with higher managerial skills will run larger firms while...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548123

The formal sector wage premium and firm size for self-employed workers

Bargain, Olivier; El Badaoui, Eliane; Kwenda, Prudence; … - 2012

We develop a model where workers may enter self-employment or search for jobs as employees and where there is heterogeneity across workers' managerial ability. Workers with higher skills will manage larger firms while workers with low managerial ability will run smaller firms and will be in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009733108

Instrumental Variables with Unordered Treatments : Theory and Evidence from Returns to Fields of Study

Heinesen, Eskil; Hvid, Christian; Kirkebøen, Lars J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We revisit the identification argument of Kirkeboen et al. (2016) who showed how one may combine instruments for multiple unordered treatments with information about individuals' ranking of these treatments to achieve identification while allowing for both observed and unobserved heterogeneity...

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A theory for ranking distribution functions

Aaberge, Rolf; Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2013

When is one distribution (of income, consumption, or some other economic variable) more equal or better than another? This question has proven difficult to answer in situations where distribution functions intersect and no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker criteria...

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