Labor informality bias of a poverty-alleviation program in Argentina

In 2002, in the midst of a serious macroeconomic crisis, Argentina implemented a large social program (the Programa Jefes de Hogar, PJH) that provides cash transfers to unemployed household heads meeting certain criteria. In practice, the difficulty in monitoring the unemployment requirement for inf...

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Autores principales: Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos, Haimovich, Francisco, Olivieri, Sergio
Formato: Articulo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2009
Materias:
Ciencias Económicas
Informality
Employment
Argentina
Evaluation
Program
Jefes
Poverty
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/128504
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SEDICI (UNLP) de Universidad Nacional de La Plata
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topic Ciencias Económicas
Informality
Employment
Argentina
Evaluation
Program
Jefes
Poverty
spellingShingle Ciencias Económicas
Informality
Employment
Argentina
Evaluation
Program
Jefes
Poverty
Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
Haimovich, Francisco
Olivieri, Sergio
Labor informality bias of a poverty-alleviation program in Argentina
topic_facet Ciencias Económicas
Informality
Employment
Argentina
Evaluation
Program
Jefes
Poverty
description In 2002, in the midst of a serious macroeconomic crisis, Argentina implemented a large social program (the Programa Jefes de Hogar, PJH) that provides cash transfers to unemployed household heads meeting certain criteria. In practice, the difficulty in monitoring the unemployment requirement for informal (unregistered) workers would imply a disincentive for the program participants to search for a formal job. By applying matching techniques we evaluate the empirical relevance of this prediction during the period of strong economic growth that followed the crisis. We find some evidence on the informality bias of the PJH when the value of the cash transfer was relatively high compared to wages in the formal labor market.
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author Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
Haimovich, Francisco
Olivieri, Sergio
author_facet Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
Haimovich, Francisco
Olivieri, Sergio
author_sort Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
title Labor informality bias of a poverty-alleviation program in Argentina
title_short Labor informality bias of a poverty-alleviation program in Argentina
title_full Labor informality bias of a poverty-alleviation program in Argentina
title_fullStr Labor informality bias of a poverty-alleviation program in Argentina
title_full_unstemmed Labor informality bias of a poverty-alleviation program in Argentina
title_sort labor informality bias of a poverty-alleviation program in argentina
publishDate 2009
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