Olivier Bargain
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1008977 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Olivier Bargain |
| PRENOMES | Olivier |
| SOBRENOME | Bargain |
| ASSINATURA | BARGAIN O |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Université de Bordeaux |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1042-9997 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 79 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Job loss and mental health
Job loss is known to adversely affect mental health, but the time course of recovery and the role of anticipation remain unclear. Using 22 annual waves (2001-2022) of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey, we estimate fixed-effects models to examine the relationship between redundancy and mental health (SF-36), incorporating subjective probability of job loss to refine anticipation measures. The final sample consis…
Is the Public Sector Losing the Battle for Talent? Evidence from long French Panel Data
We exploit an exceptionally long administrative panel dataset (1988–2019) for France to estimate the unconditional quantile effects of public sector employment, while accounting for individual fixed effects. We find that the public sector wage gap is broadly negative across the whole wage distribution after controlling for observable and unobservable heterogeneities. The public sector compresses the wage distribution, with particularly large wage…
Social gaps, perceived inequality and protests
Latent feelings of economic vulnerability and social stagnation may have catalyzed the unprecedented uprisings that shook Latin America and other parts of the world in 2018–2019. We document this process in the context of Chile, leveraging survey data on protest participation and its potential determinants. Specifically, we construct a “social gap” index, measuring the disconnect between objective and perceived social status. Our findings suggest…
Informality, self‐employment and heterogeneous managerial ability
The view of informal employment as a last resort in the labour market has recently been challenged by numerous studies documenting the existence of a high degree of heterogeneity within the formal and informal sectors. In particular, informal self‐employment/employment may be voluntary or forced. There is currently not much theoretical support for these observations. We develop a theoretical model of the labour market with both formal and informa…
New Evidence on Welfare’s Disincentive for the Youth Using Administrative Panel Data
We estimate the impact of social assistance on youth employment in Denmark, 2000 to 2006. For childless unmarried individuals, maximum welfare payments increased by 55% at age 25. Using administrative panel data, we find a significant disincentive effect among the low-skilled only, for whom employment fell by 2% to 3% and benefit take-up increased by 10% to 14%. Two-thirds of the effect is attributable to transitions from work to welfare and one-…
Shine a (night)light
Culture, Intrahousehold Distribution, and Individual Poverty
Traditional family norms often have persistent effects on household decisiond. We question wether kinship ancestries of post-marital residence still affect household consumption sharing. We estimate a model of ressource allocation using expenditure surveys for Ghana and Malawi, two countries in wich patrilocal and matrilocal traditions coexist. Ancestral patrilocality coincide with a10% lower ressource share for women, contributating to higher pr…
Intrahousehold Resource Allocation and Individual Poverty
Welfare analyses conducted by policy practitioners around the world usually rely on equivalised or per capita expenditures and ignore the extent of within-household inequality. Recent advances in the estimation of collective models suggest ways to retrieve the complete sharing process within families using homogeneity assumptions (typically preference stability upon exclusive goods across individuals or household types) and the observation of exc…
The Economic Gains of Closing The Employment Gender Gap
The present paper sheds new light on the growth implications of gender inequalities in the Moroccan labour market. We confront two different approaches. The first one is based on firm data to estimate gender complementarity in production and uses this information for simulations based on a simple macroeconomic model. The second relies on country panel variation to relate growth to the relative employment of women and, also, suggest simulations fo…
Undeclared Work – Evidence from France
This study quantifies undeclared work patterns in France using a unique pilot survey which collects data on households' demand and supply of undeclared work (Enquête pilote auprès des ménages sur la fraude). It also proposes an international comparison at the European level using Eurobarometer data. Socio-demographic characteristics fail to explain the variance in undeclared work, while subjective factors are strongly associated with house-holds’…
Poverty and Covid-19 in Africa and Latin America
Trust and compliance to public health policies in times of Covid-19
‘Fair’ welfare comparisons with heterogeneous tastes
Introduction – Socio-Fiscal Incentives to Work
Bargain Olivier. Introduction – Socio-Fiscal Incentives to Work: Taking Stock and New Research. In: Economie et Statistique / Economics and Statistics, n°503-504, 2018. pp. 5-12
Women's political participation and intrahousehold empowerment
Crisis at home
Tax-benefit systems, income distribution and welfare analysis
Learning from your neighbor
Over the last decades, Latin American countries have experienced a noticeable decrease in income inequality. While this trend is mainly associated with a decline in wage inequality, progressive reforms of the tax-benefit systems of the region may have played a role. While redistributive systems in Latin America are still in their infancy, they are constantly expanding and do so at different pace in the region. To investigate this point in a compa…
Welfare analysis and redistributive policies
Own-wage labor supply elasticities
There is a huge variation in the size of labor supply elasticities in the literature, which hampers policy analysis. While recent studies show that preference heterogeneity across countries explains little of this variation, we focus on two other important features: observation period and estimation method. We start with a thorough survey of existing evidence for both Western Europe and the USA, over a long period and from different empirical app…
Home Sweet Home
This paper examines whether the subjective well-being of migrants is responsive to fl uc- tuations in macroeconomic conditions in their country of origin. Using the German Socio- Economic Panel for the years 1984 to 2009 and macroeconomic variables for 24 countries of origin, we exploit country-year variation for identi cation of the effect and panel data to con- trol for migrants observed and unobserved characteristics. We find strong (mild) evi…
Stature, Skills and Adult Life Outcomes
We investigate the effect of height on earnings, occupational choices and a subjective measure of wellbeing among Indonesian men. We explore the extent to which height captures the effects of endowments set before entry in the labour market. Physical and cognitive skills, co-determined with stature early in life, do not explain much of the height earnings premium directly. Yet, human capital more broadly, including cognition, educational attainme…
Remittances and Relative Concerns in Rural China
Remittances and relative concerns in rural China
Remittance Effects on Child Labour
This article explores the effects of remittance receipt on child labour in an African context. We focus on Burkina Faso, a country with a high prevalence of child labour and a high rate of migration. Given the complex relationship between remittance receipt and household time allocation decisions, we instrument remittances using economic conditions in remittance-sending countries and explore heterogeneous effects across different types of potenti…
Poverty and Covid-19 in Africa and Latin America
No claim, no pain. Measuring the non-take-up of social assistance using register data
Intrahousehold distribution and poverty
Intrahousehold Resource Allocation and Individual Poverty
Welfare analyses conducted by policy practitioners around the world usually rely on equivalised or per capita expenditures and ignore the extent of within-household inequality. Recent advances in the estimation of collective models suggest ways to retrieve the complete sharing process within families using homogeneity assumptions (typically preference stability upon exclusive goods across individuals or household types) and the observation of exc…
Women's political participation and intrahousehold empowerment
Analysing the effects of tax-benefit reforms on income distribution
Making work pay” in a rationed labor market
Culture, Intrahousehold Distribution, and Individual Poverty
Traditional family norms often have persistent effects on household decisiond. We question wether kinship ancestries of post-marital residence still affect household consumption sharing. We estimate a model of ressource allocation using expenditure surveys for Ghana and Malawi, two countries in wich patrilocal and matrilocal traditions coexist. Ancestral patrilocality coincide with a10% lower ressource share for women, contributating to higher pr…
Le RMI et son successeur le RSA découragent-ils certains jeunes de travailler ? Une analyse sur les jeunes autour de 25 ans
En France, en l’absence d’enfant à charge, seules les personnes de 25 ans et plus peuvent être allocataires du revenu de solidarité active (RSA). Avant la mise en place de ce dispositif, en juin 2009, la même condition existait pour le revenu minimum d’insertion (RMI), dans l’idée que la possibilité de toucher un revenu minimum pourrait décourager certains jeunes de rechercher un emploi ou de poursuivre leurs études. Cet article cherche à évaluer…
Crisis at home
Learning from your neighbor
Over the last decades, Latin American countries have experienced a noticeable decrease in income inequality. While this trend is mainly associated with a decline in wage inequality, progressive reforms of the tax-benefit systems of the region may have played a role. While redistributive systems in Latin America are still in their infancy, they are constantly expanding and do so at different pace in the region. To investigate this point in a compa…
The Informal Sector Wage Gap
We estimate the informal-formal sector pay gap throughout the conditional wage distribution using panel data from Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa. We control for time-invariant unobservables, and identification stems from intersector movers. We control for observables in a nonlinear way using propensity score reweighting and carefully check for potential measurement errors. Using similar definitions of informality, we obtain consistent results f…
Normative evaluation of tax policies
Aides au retour à l'emploi et activité des femmes en couple
Le débat sur les incitations financières à la reprise d’une activité ne s’est pas éteint avec l’instauration de la Prime pour l’emploi. Notamment, le traitement de la dimension familiale dans les aides à l’emploi est un aspect crucial dont les implications sont encore mal connues. Une réforme conditionnée par le niveau de revenu familial, comme la proposition d’Allocation compensatrice de revenu ou le Working Family Tax Credit britannique, impliq…
Micro-Simulation in Action
Normative evaluation of tax policies
Analysing the effects of tax-benefit reforms on income distribution
Making work pay” in a rationed labor market
No claim, no pain. Measuring the non-take-up of social assistance using register data
Relative concerns of rural-to-urban migrants in China
Female labor supply and divorce
Welfare, labor supply and heterogeneous preferences
Fiscal union in Europe? Redistributive and stabilizing effects of a European tax-benefit system and fiscal equalization mechanism
The current debt crisis has given rise to a debate concerning deeper fiscal integration in Europe. The view is widespread that moving towards a ‘fiscal union’ would have stabilizing effects in case of macroeconomic shocks. We study the economic effects of introducing two elements of a fiscal union: an EU-wide tax and transfer system and a fiscal equalization mechanism. Using the European tax-benefit calculator EUROMOD, we exploit representative h…
Tax-Benefit Revealed Social Preferences in Europe and the US
We follow the inverted optimal tax approach to characterize and compare tax-benefit social preferences in 17 EU countries and the US. Following Bargain et al. [2013], we invert the optimal income taxation model on the distributions of net and gross incomes and use labor supply elasticities consistently estimated on the same data. The present paper focuses on new outputs of particular interest for the current policy debate on in-work versus tradit…
Comparing Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the United States
We suggest the first large-scale international comparison of labor supply elasticities for 17 European countries and the United States using a harmonized empirical approach. We find that own-wage elasticities are relatively small and more uniform across countries than previously considered. Nonetheless, such differences do exist, and are found not to arise from different tax-benefit systems, wage/hour levels, or demographic compositions across co…
Tax Policy and Income Inequality in the United States, 1979–2007
This paper assesses the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality over around three decades, from 1979 to 2007. It applies a new method for decomposing changes in government redistribution into (1) a direct policy effect resulting from policy changes and (2) the effects of changing market incomes. Over the period as a whole, the tax policy changes increased income inequality by pushing up the income share of high‐income earners (the top 20…
Le RMI et son successeur le RSA découragent-ils certains jeunes de travailler ? Une analyse sur les jeunes autour de 25 ans
En France, en l’absence d’enfant à charge, seules les personnes de 25 ans et plus peuvent être allocataires du revenu de solidarité active (RSA). Avant la mise en place de ce dispositif, en juin 2009, la même condition existait pour le revenu minimum d’insertion (RMI), dans l’idée que la possibilité de toucher un revenu minimum pourrait décourager certains jeunes de rechercher un emploi ou de poursuivre leurs études. Cet article cherche à évaluer…
Intrahousehold distribution and poverty
Optimal Commodity Taxation and Redistribution within Households
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 the consumption of a certain group of goods—those for which the slope of the Engel curves is larger for the targeted person
The Informal Sector Wage Gap
We estimate the informal-formal sector pay gap throughout the conditional wage distribution using panel data from Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa. We control for time-invariant unobservables, and identification stems from intersector movers. We control for observables in a nonlinear way using propensity score reweighting and carefully check for potential measurement errors. Using similar definitions of informality, we obtain consistent results f…
Remittances and Relative Concerns in Rural China
Remittances and relative concerns in rural China
Remittance Effects on Child Labour
This article explores the effects of remittance receipt on child labour in an African context. We focus on Burkina Faso, a country with a high prevalence of child labour and a high rate of migration. Given the complex relationship between remittance receipt and household time allocation decisions, we instrument remittances using economic conditions in remittance-sending countries and explore heterogeneous effects across different types of potenti…
Own-wage labor supply elasticities
There is a huge variation in the size of labor supply elasticities in the literature, which hampers policy analysis. While recent studies show that preference heterogeneity across countries explains little of this variation, we focus on two other important features: observation period and estimation method. We start with a thorough survey of existing evidence for both Western Europe and the USA, over a long period and from different empirical app…
Home Sweet Home
This paper examines whether the subjective well-being of migrants is responsive to fl uc- tuations in macroeconomic conditions in their country of origin. Using the German Socio- Economic Panel for the years 1984 to 2009 and macroeconomic variables for 24 countries of origin, we exploit country-year variation for identi cation of the effect and panel data to con- trol for migrants observed and unobserved characteristics. We find strong (mild) evi…
Stature, Skills and Adult Life Outcomes
We investigate the effect of height on earnings, occupational choices and a subjective measure of wellbeing among Indonesian men. We explore the extent to which height captures the effects of endowments set before entry in the labour market. Physical and cognitive skills, co-determined with stature early in life, do not explain much of the height earnings premium directly. Yet, human capital more broadly, including cognition, educational attainme…
Tax-benefit systems, income distribution and welfare analysis
Learning from your neighbor
Over the last decades, Latin American countries have experienced a noticeable decrease in income inequality. While this trend is mainly associated with a decline in wage inequality, progressive reforms of the tax-benefit systems of the region may have played a role. While redistributive systems in Latin America are still in their infancy, they are constantly expanding and do so at different pace in the region. To investigate this point in a compa…
Economics (36 obras) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (25 obras) · Demographic economics (17 obras) · Economic growth (15 obras) · Labour economics (15 obras) · Political science (13 obras) · Public economics (12 obras) · Econometrics (11 obras) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (11 obras) · Microeconomics (11 obras)