Articles
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Main domains of research
1. Bargain, O., M. Lo Bue (2021): “The Economic Gains of closing the Employment Gender Gap: Evidence from Morocco.”, r&r at Feminist Economics (CNRS: 3, AERES: B)
2. Bargain, O., P. Kwenda, E. El Badaoui, E. Strobl and F. Walsh (2024): “The Formal Sector Wage Premium and Firm Size for Self Employed Workers”, forthcoming in the Journal of International Development (CNRS: 3, AERES: B)
3. Aminjonov, U., Bargain, O. & T. Bernard (2023): “COVID-19, Poverty and Global Policy Response”, forthcoming in the European Economic Review (CNRS: 1, AERES: A)
4. Bargain, O., A. Etienne and B. Melly (2024): “The public pay gap in France: new evidence using panel data”, forthcoming in the Economic Journal (CNRS: 1, AERES: A)
5. Bargain, O. (2023): “Income Sources, Intra-household Allocation and Individual Poverty”, Review of Income and Wealth (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)
6. Aminjonov, U., O. Bargain, M. Colacce and L. Tiberti (2023): “Culture, Intra-household Distribution and Individual Poverty”, forthcoming in Economic Development and Cultural Chance (CNRS: 1, AERES: A)
7. Akay, A., O. Bargain and X. Jara Tamayo (2023): “Back to Bentham? Large scale comparison of decision and experience utility”, forthcoming in the Scandinavian Journal of Economics (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)
8. Bargain, O., V. Stephane and J. Valette (2022): “Another Brick in the Wall. Immigration and Electoral Preferences: Direct Evidence from State Ballots”, Review of International Economics (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)
9. Bargain, O., D. Echevin, A. Etienne, N. Moreau (2022): “A Direct Test of (In)efficiency within Couples : Tax Optimization in French cohabiting couples”, forthcoming National Tax Journal (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)
10. Bargain, O. and A. Jonassen (2022): “RD on Age-based Eligibility for Benefits: New Insights using Panel Administrative Data”, Review of Economics and Statistics, 1-45 https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01191 (CNRS: 1, AERES: A)
11. Bargain, O., O. Donni and I. Hentati (2022): “Resource sharing in families and Barten scale economies: theory and evidence from the UK”, Journal of the European Economic Association, 20, 6, 2468–2496 (CNRS: 1, AERES: A)
12. Bargain, O., G. Lacroix and L. Tiberti (2021): “Validating the collective model using direct sharing evidence”, Economic Journal, 132, 643, 865–905 (CNRS: 1, AERES: A)
13. Bargain, O., A. Etienne and B. Melly (2021): “Informal Wage Gaps in Good and Bad Times: Evidence from Russia”, Journal of Comparative Economics, 49/3, 693-714 (CNRS: 1, AERES: A)
14. Bargain, O. and U. Aminjonov (2020): “Trust and Compliance to Public Health Policies in Times of COVID-19”, Journal of Public Economics, 192, 104316 (CNRS: 1, AERES: A)
15. Bargain, O. H.X. Jara. P. Kwenda and M. Benhura (2021): “Learning from the “best”: The impact of tax-benefit systems in Africa”, forthcoming Journal of African Economies (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)
16. Bargain, O. and D. Boutin (2021): “Minimum Age Regulation and Child Labor: New Evidence from Brazil”, forthcoming in the World Bank Economic Review, 35, 1 234-260 (CNRS: 1, AERES: A)
17. Aminjonov, U. and Bargain, O. (2020): “Poverty and Work Mobility in Latin America and Africa in Times of COVID-19”, forthcoming in World Development (CNRS: 1, AERES: A)
18. Bargain, O., D. Boutin and H. Champeaux (2019): “Intra-household bargaining power after the Egyptian Arab Spring”, Journal of Development Economics, 141, C, 102379 (CNRS: 1, AERES: A)
19. Akay, A., O. Bargain and X. Jara Tamayo (2019): “Fair welfare analysis with preference heterogeneity: subjective versus revealed preferences”, Social Choice and Welfare, 55(1), 51-84 (CNRS: 1, AERES: A)
20. Akay, A., O. Bargain and A. Elsayed (2019): “Global Terror, Well-Being and Political Attitudes”, European Economic Review (CNRS: 1, AERES: A)
21. Bargain, O. and J. Zeidan (2019): “The direct effect of obesity on emotional well-being: Evidence from Mexico”, Health Economics 28 (4), 447-460 (CNRS: 1, AERES: A)
22. Bargain, O. and L. Martinoty (2018): “Crisis at home? Effect of the Mancession on intrahousehold distribution”, Journal of Population Economics, 32(1), 277-308 (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)
23. Bargain, O, K. Doorley and P. van Kerm (2018): “The effect of the minimum wage on the gender wage gap in the UK and Ireland”, Review of Income and Wealth (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)
24. Bargain, O., X. Jara and D. Rodriguez (2017): “Learning from your neighbour: Tax-benefit systems swaps in Latin America”, Journal of Economic Inequality (CNRS: 3, AERES: B)
25. Bargain, O. (2017): “Welfare analysis and redistributive policies”, Journal of Economic Inequality, (CNRS: 3, AERES: B)
26. Akay, A., Bargain, O. and K. Zimmermann (2017): “Home sweet home? Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of Migrants”, Journal of Human Resources, 52, 2, 351-373 (CNRS: 1, AERES: A)
27. Bargain, O. and K. Doorley (2017): “The Effect of Social Benefits on Youth Employment: Combining Regression Discontinuity and a Behavioral Model”, Journal of Human Resources, 52(4), 1032-1059 (CNRS: 1, AERES: A)
28. Bargain, O. P. Kwenda and M. Benhura (2017): “Gender Bias and the Intrahousehold Distribution of Resources: Evidence from African Nuclear Households in South Africa”, Journal of African Economies (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)
29. Bargain, O. and J. Zeidan (2016): “Stature, skills and life outcome: Evidence from Indonesia”, forthcoming in Journal of Development Studies (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)
30. Bargain, O., T. Callan, K. Doorley and C. Keane (2016): “Changes in income distribution during the great recession and the role of tax-benefit policy: an International Perspective”, Fiscal Studies (CNRS: 3, AERES: B)
31. Akay, A., O. Bargain, C. Giulietti, J. Robalino & K. Zimmermann (2016): “Remittances and Relative Concerns in Rural China”, China Economic Review, 37(C), 191-207 (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)
32. Bargain, O., and A. Peichl (2016): “Steady-State Labor Supply Elasticities: An International Comparison”, IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 5,10, 1-31
33. Bargain, O., M. Dolls, H. Immervoll, A. Peichl, D. Neumann, S. Siegloch (2015): “Tax policy and income inequality in the U.S., 1978-2007”, Economic Inquiry, 2015, 53 (2), 1061-1085 (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)
34. Bargain, O., O. Donni and P. Kwenda (2015): “Intrahousehold distribution and child poverty: Theory and evidence from Cote d’Ivoire”, Journal of Development Economics, 107, 262–276 (CNRS: 1, AERES: A)
35. Bargain, O. and D. Boutin (2015): “Remittance effects on child labor: Evidence from Burkina Faso”, Journal of Development Studies, 51/7, 922–938 (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)
36. Bargain, O. and P. Kwenda (2014): “The informal sector wage gap in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa: new evidence using panel data”, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 63(1), 117-153 (CNRS: 1, AERES: A)
37. Bargain, O. and O. Donni (2014): “Optimal commodity taxation and intrahousehold targeting”, Economica, 81, 48-62 (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)
38. Bargain, O., K. Orsini and A. Peichl (2014): “Labour supply elasticities: A complete characterization for Europe and the US”, Journal of Human Resources, 49(3),723-838 (CNRS: 1, AERES: A)
39. Bargain, O., M Dolls, C. Fuest, D. Neumann, N. Pestel, A. Peichl, S. Siegloch (2013): “Fiscal Union in Europe? Efficiency, Equity and Stabilizing Effects of an EU wide income tax », Economic Policy, 1-48 (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)
40. Bargain, O., M. Dolls, A. Peichl, D. Neumann, S. Siegloch (2013): “Tax-Benefit Revealed Social Preferences in Europe and the US”, Annales of Economics and Statistiques, 113/114 (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)
41. Bargain, O., A. Decoster, M. Dolls, A. Peichl, D. Neumann, S. Siegloch (2013): “Welfare, heterogeneity and responsibility: Evidence from Europe’’, Social Choice and Welfare, 41(4), 789-817 (CNRS: 1, AERES: A)
42. Bargain, O., M. Dolls, A. Peichl, D. Neumann, S. Siegloch (2013): “Comparing inequality aversion across countries when labor supply responses differ”, International Tax and Public Finance, 21, 845–873 (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)
43. Bargain, O., H. Immervoll and H. Vittamaki (2012): “No Claim, No Pain. Measuring the Non-Take-up of Social Assistance”, Journal of Economic Inequality, 10 (3), 375-395 (CNRS: 3, AERES: B)
44. Bargain, O. (2012): “Decomposition analysis of distributive policies using behavioural simulations”, International Tax and Public Finance, 19(5), 708-731 (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)
45. Bargain, O. and O. Donni (2012): “Targeting and child poverty” (previous title: “Indirect taxation, targeting and child poverty”), Social Choice and Welfare, 39(4) 783-808 (CNRS: 1, AERES: A)
46. Bargain, O. and O. Donni (2012): “The Measurement of Child Costs: A Rothbarth-Type Method Consistent with Scale Economies and Parents' Bargaining”, European Economic Review, 56 (4), 792-813 (CNRS: 1, AERES: A)
47. Bargain, O. and N. Moreau (2012): “The impact of tax-benefit reforms on labour supply in a simulated Nash-bargaining framework”, Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 34(1), 77-86 (AERES: sociology-demography)
48. Akay, A., Bargain, O. and K. F. Zimmermann (2012): “Relative Concerns of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China”, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 81, 421– 441 (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)
49. Bargain, O, L. Gonzalez, C. Keane, B. Özcan (2012): “Female labor supply and divorce: new evidence from Ireland”, European Economic Review, 56(8), 1675–1691 (CNRS: 1, AERES: A)
50. Bargain, O. (2012): “The distributional effects of tax-benefit policies under New Labour: A Shapley decomposition”, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 74(6), 856-874 (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)
51. Bargain, O., H. Immervoll, A. Peichl, and S. Siegloch (2011): “'Distributional consequences of labor-demand shocks: the 2008–2009 recession in Germany”, International Tax and Public Finance, 19(1), 118-138 (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)
52. Bargain, O. and K. Doorley (2011): “Caught in the trap? Welfare’s disincentive and the labor supply of single men”, Journal of Public Economics, vol. 95(9-10), 1096-1110 (CNRS: 1, AERES: A)
53. Bargain, O. and K. Doorley (2011): “In-work transfers for good and bad days. Simulations for Ireland”, Research in Labor Economics, 33, ch. 9, 307-339
54. Bargain, O. and C. Keane (2011): “Tax-Revealed Redistributive Preferences over Time: Ireland 1987-2005”, Labour : Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 24, 141–167 (CNRS: 3, AERES: B)
55. Bargain, O. and P. Kwenda (2011): “Earnings structures, informal employment and self-employment: new evidence from Brazil, Mexico & South Africa”, Review of Income and Wealth, 57, S100-S122 (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)
56. Bargain, O., O. Donni and M. Gbakou (2010): “The Measurement of Child Costs: Evidence from Ireland”, Economic and Social Review, 41, 1-20
57. Bargain, O., M. Caliendo, P. Haan and K. Orsini (2010): “`Making Work Pay' in a Rationed Labour Market”, Journal of Population Economics, 23(1), 323-351 (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)
58. Bargain, O. (2009): “Flexible labour supply models”, Economics Letters, 105, 103-105 (CNRS: 3, AERES: B)
59. Bargain, O., S. Bhaumik, M. Chakrabarty and Z. Zhao (2009): “Earnings differences between Chinese and Indian wage earners, 1987-2004”, Review of Income and Wealth, 55, 562-587 (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)
60. Bargain, O. and T. Callan (2008): “Effects of Tax-benefit Changes on Inequality Trends in Europe: A Decomposition Approach”, Journal of Economic Inequality, 8(1), 1-22. (CNRS: 3, AERES:B)
61. Bargain, O. and N. Moreau (2007): “Does taxation affect intra-household distribution? A Simulation Approach”, Research on Economic Inequality, vol. 15 (Y. Amiel and J. Bishop, eds.)
62. Bargain, O. (2006): “Normative evaluation of tax policies: from households to individuals”, Journal of Population Economics, 12(4), 503-521 (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)
63. Bargain, O. and K. Osini (2005): “In-work policies in Europe: Killing two birds with one stone?’’, Labour Economics, 13, 667-697 (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)
64. Bargain, O. and K. Osini (2005): “Beans for breakfast? How exportable is the British workfare model?”, Research in Labor Economics, vol. 25, 165-198
65. Bargain, O. et al. (2004): “Does the representation of household behaviour matter for welfare analysis of tax-benefit policies? An introduction”, Review of Economics of the Household, 4, 96-112 (CNRS: 3, AERES: B)
66. Vermeulen et al. (2004): “Collective models of labor supply with non-convex budget sets and non-participation: a calibration approach”, Review of Economics of the Household, 4, 113-127 (CNRS: 3, AERES: B)
67. Myck et al. (2004): “The Working Families' Tax Credit and some European tax reforms in a collective setting”, Review of Economics of the Household, 4, 129-158 (CNRS: 3, AERES: B)
68. Beninger et al. (2004): “Evaluating the move to a linear tax system in Germany and other European countries”, Review of Economics of the Household, 4, 159-180 (CNRS: 3, AERES: B)
Other domains
69. Bargain, O. (2023): “Globalization and Cultural Spillover in Trade: Evidence from the Japanese Food Culture”, forthcoming the Review of World Economy (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)
70. Bargain, O., J.M. Cardebat and R. Chiappini (2022): “Trade Uncorked: Genetic Resistance and Quality Heterogeneity in Wine Exports”, forthcoming, American Journal of Agricultural Economics (CNRS: 1, AERES: A)
71. Bargain, O., J.M.Cardebat and A. Vignolles (2016): “Crowdfunding in wine: a super “en primeur” market? “,Journal of Wine Economics (CNRS: 3, AERES: B)
72. Bargain, O., J.M.Cardebat and R. Chiappini (2018): “International Wine Trade: A Prospective Approach based on Porter’s Diamond”, Journal of Wine Economics (CNRS: 3, AERES: B)
73. Bargain, O. (2019): “Go East: the determinant of French wine exports to China”, Journal of Wine Economics (CNRS: 3, AERES: B)
Non-English publications
74. AitBihiOuali, L. and Bargain, O. (2021): “Le Travail Dissimulé en France”, Economie et Statistiques (CNRS: 3, AERES: B)
75. Bargain, O. (2018) : “Incitations socio-fiscales à l’emploi : un point d’étape”, Economie et Statistiques (CNRS: 3, AERES: B)
76. Bargain, O., A. Pacifico, A. Trannoy (2016) : “Fiscalité des familles aisés : vers un crédit d’impôt par enfant“, Revue Française de Finances Publiques, 133 (AERES: droit)
77. Bargain, O. (2015) : “Que peut‐on attendre de la Prime d’activité ?“, Revue Française de Finances Publiques (AERES: droit)
78. Bargain, O., and A. Vicard (2013): “L’impact du RMI/RSA sur l’emploi des jeunes: Etude de la discontinuité à 25 ans’’, Economie et Statistiques (CNRS: 3, AERES: B)
79. Bargain, O., and A. Vicard (2012): “Le RMI puis le RSA découragent-ils certains jeunes de travailler ? », Insee Analyses, n° X, june 2012
80. Bargain, O., M. Myck, L. Socha and L. Morawski (2007): “As SIMPL as that: introducing a tax-benefit microsimulation model for Poland’’, published as ‘Model podatkowo-Å›wiadczeniowy dla Polski - SIMPL2003’ in Wiadomosci Statystyczne, the Journal of the Polish Statistical Society, 2008-04
81. Bargain, O. and N. Moreau (2006) : “Effets d'une réforme fiscale sur l'offre de travail des ménages dans un cadre collectif simulé’’, Actualité Economique, 82, 1-2 (CNRS : 4, AERES: C)
82. Bargain, O. and I. Terraz (2003) : “Evaluation des effets incitatifs et redistributifs de la Prime pour l'Emploi et de ses alternatives’’, Economie et Prévision, 160/161, 121-149 (CNRS: 3, AERES: B)
83. Bargain, O. (2004) : “Aides au retour à l’emploi et activité des femmes en couple’’, Revue de l’OFCE, 88, 59-87. (CNRS: 4, AERES: C)
Book chapters
84. Bargain, O. and X. Jara (2024): “Top earnings and inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ecuador”, in Cushioning against crises: The role of tax-benefit systems in the developing world, Edited by Maria Jouste, Ravi Kanbur, Jukka Pirttilä, Pia Rattenhuber, Oxford University Press.
85. Bargain, O. (2014): "Decomposing inequality and poverty", Handbook on Microsimulation, C. O'Donoghue editor, preface of A. Atkinson.
86. C. O'Donoghue et al. (2002): “The impact of means tested assistance in Southern Europe” in V. Atella (ed.) Le Politiche Sociali in Italia ed in Europa Coerenza e Convergenza nelle Azioni 1999-2001. Bologna: il Mulino.
Books or collective issue (as editor and coeditor)
87. Bargain, O. (2017,ed.): forewords of “Tax-benefit systems, Income Distribution and Welfare Analysis”, Special issue of the Journal of Economic Inequality in homage to Tony Atkinson, Issue 4/2017
88. Bargain, O. (2006,ed.): “Microsimulation in action: policy analysis in Europe using EUROMOD”, Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 25
89. Bargain, O. and S. Polachek (2005, eds): “Aspects of worker well-being”, Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 26
Non-peer reviewed
90. Bargain, O. & M. Fleurbaey (2020) : Introspection, valeurs et choix de vie au temps de la Covid-19, https://datacovid.org/introspection-valeurs-et-choix-de-vie-face-a-lepidemie/