Olivier B. Bargain

Research Fellow

Université de Bordeaux

olivier.bargain.eco@gmail.com

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Research Interests

Olivier is Professor of Economics at the University of Bordeaux and member of the Institut Universitaire de France. His research covers topics in development, public and labor economics. He has been associate editor of the Journal of Economic Inequality and coeditor of the book series Research in Labor Economics. Former member of the Council of Economic Advisors to the French Prime Minister, he has been expert for several international organizations and ministries on social, fiscal and labor market policies. He is the coordinator of the project HOPE (Understanding Human Well-being and Behaviour for better Policies & Societies), one of the 'broad research programs' funded by IDEX Bordeaux. He was researcher at IZA in 2004-06.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4711

Is Informality Bad? Evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa

Olivier B. Bargain, Prudence Magejo

published as 'Earnings Structure, Informal Employment and Self-Employment: New Evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2011, 57, S100-S122

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4672

The Measurement of Child Costs: Evidence from Ireland

Olivier B. Bargain, Olivier Donni, Monnet Benoit Patrick Gbakou

published in: Economic and Social Review, 2010, 41 (1), 1-20

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4654

The Measurement of Child Costs: A Rothbarth-Type Method Consistent with Scale Economies

Olivier B. Bargain, Olivier Donni

published as 'Expenditure on Children: A Rothbarth-Type Method Consistent with Scale Economies and Parents' Bargaining' in: European Economic Review, 2012, 56 (4), 792-813

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4644

In-Work Transfers in Good Times and Bad: Simulations for Ireland

Olivier B. Bargain, Karina Doorley

published in: Solomon W. Polachek, Konstantinos Tatsiramos (eds.), 2011, Research in Labor Economics (Research in Labor Economics, Volume 33), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 307-339

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4296

The Distributional Effects of Tax-Benefit Policies under New Labour: A Shapley Decomposition

Olivier B. Bargain

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 74 (6), 856–874

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4291

Caught in the Trap? The Disincentive Effect of Social Assistance

Olivier B. Bargain, Karina Doorley

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (9-10), 1096-1110

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4286

The Informal Sector Wage Gap: New Evidence Using Quantile Estimations on Panel Data

Olivier B. Bargain, Prudence Magejo

revised version published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2015, 63 (1), 117-153