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How tight are safety-nets in Nordic Countries? : evidence from Finnish register data

Bargain, Olivier (contributor); … - 2007

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 biased by misreporting and measurement errors on both benefit entitlement...

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A theory of child targeting

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

. We consider a household that comprises an adult and a child. The household behavior is described by the maximization of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003581183

Another brick in the wall : immigration and electoral preferences: direct evidence from state ballots

Bargain, Olivier; Stephane, Victor; Valette, Jérôme - 2021

Using information on actual ballots rather than survey data, we investigate the impact of immigration on both electoral outcomes and immigrant-related motives underlying political preferences. We take advantage of 94 votes, namely 54 policy propositions and 40 elections for candidates, that took...

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A Theory of Child Targeting

Bargain, Olivier - 2007

. We consider a household that comprises an adult and a child. The household behavior is described by the maximization of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777267

How Tight are Safety-Nets in Nordic Countries? Evidence from Finnish Register Data

Bargain, Olivier - 2007

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Normative Evaluation of Tax Policies : From Households to Individuals

Bargain, Olivier - 2021

household labor supply and a microsimulation program of the French tax-benefit system. The collective approach allows studying … rather than an ambiguous concept of household welfare. This way, the planner's preferences address not only inter-household … inequalities but also intra-household inequalities often neglected in the literature. The other contribution of the paper derives …

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Tax-Benefit Revealed Redistributive Preferences Over Time : Ireland 1987-2005

Bargain, Olivier - 2010

By inverting Saez (2002)'s model of optimal income taxation, we characterize the redistributive preferences of the Irish government between 1987 and 2005. The (marginal) social welfare function revealed by this approach is consistently comparable over time and show great stability despite...

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No Claim, No Pain : Measuring the Non-Take-Up of Social Assistance Using Register Data

Bargain, Olivier - 2010

The main objectives of social assistance benefits, including poverty alleviation and labor-market or social reintegration, can be seriously compromised if support is difficult to access. While recent studies point to high non-take-up rates, existing evidence does not make full use of the...

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Crisis at home : mancession-induced change in intrahousehold distribution

Bargain, Olivier; Martinoty, Laurine - In: Journal of population economics 32 (2019) 1, pp. 277-308

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Gender bias and the intrahousehold distribution of resources : evidence from African nuclear households in South Africa

Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda-Magejo, Prudence; Ntuli, Miracle - In: Journal of African economies 27 (2018) 2, pp. 201-226

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