Olivier B. Bargain

Research Fellow

Université de Bordeaux

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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. 5221
Tax-Benefit Revealed Redistributive Preferences Over Time: Ireland 1987-2005
Olivier B. Bargain, Claire Keane
published in: Labour, 2010, 24 (s1), 141–167
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5220
Distributional Consequences of Labor Demand Adjustments to a Downturn: A Model-Based Approach with Application to Germany 2008-09
Olivier B. Bargain, Herwig Immervoll, Andreas Peichl, Sebastian Siegloch
revised version published as 'Distributional consequences of labor-demand shocks: the 2008–2009 recession in Germany' in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2012, 19 (1), 118-138
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4959
Female Labor Supply and Divorce: New Evidence from Ireland
Olivier B. Bargain, Libertad González, Claire Keane, Berkay Özcan
published in: European Economic Review, 2012, 56 (8), 1675–1691
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
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