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Transferencias de ingresos y mercado de trabajo: El impacto de Asignaciones Familiares Plan de Equidad sobre la informalidad laboral

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  • Elisa Failache

    (Universidad de la República (Uruguay). Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y de Administración. Instituto de Economía)

  • Matías Giaccobasso

    (Universidad de la República (Uruguay). Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y de Administración. Instituto de Economía)

  • Lucía Ramírez

    (Universidad de la República (Uruguay). Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y de Administración. Instituto de Economía)

Abstract

Asignaciones Familiares – Plan de Equidad (AFAM-PE) is a conditional cash transfer program implemented in Uruguay since 2008. It consists in a cash transfer given to households with children under 18 years old experiencing socioeconomic vulnerability. We analyze the impact of AFAM-PE on theprobability of contributing to social security on the household adults’.To this end, and given that programme entrance is based on a score, we apply the RegressionDiscontinuity approach, using the survey “Encuesta de Condiciones de Vida” tailored for the evaluation of this program. In this survey, information about individuals eligible to participate in the program as well as ineligible with similar characteristics is collected. The main results of the analysis are similar to those found for similar programs implemented in Latin America. We found no evidence of significant impact of AFAM PE neither on participation rate, employment, nor hours worked. However, we find that AFAM PE has a positive effect of eleven percent points on the probability of contributing to social security. These effects fall mainly on those responsible for charging the transfer. Furthermore, heterogeneous effects are found, being young, women and members of nuclear families the most affected.

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  • Elisa Failache & Matías Giaccobasso & Lucía Ramírez, 2016. "Transferencias de ingresos y mercado de trabajo: El impacto de Asignaciones Familiares Plan de Equidad sobre la informalidad laboral," Documentos de Investigación Estudiantil (students working papers) 16-01, Instituto de Economía - IECON.
    • Handle: RePEc:ulr:tpaper:die-01-16
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    Cited by:

    1. Emilio Aguirre, 2016. "Impacto de ser becado del Programa Compromiso Educativo," Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) 1616, Department of Economics - dECON.
    2. Cecilia Parada, 2018. "Income cash transfers and intrahousehold decision making," Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) 18-17, Instituto de Economía - IECON.
    3. Joan Vilá, 2019. "Respuestas en los ingresos frente a un programa de transferencias monetarias: evidencia de un notch a partir de registros administrativos de Uruguay," Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) 19-07, Instituto de Economía - IECON.

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    Keywords

    No conditional cash transfers; AFAM-PE; Informality; Impact Evaluation; Uruguay;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • H53 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
    • J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
    • O17 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
    • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs

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