Social Assistance, Labour Markets and Intra-household Decision-making: Evaluation of the AFAM-PE Programme in Uruguay

The expansion of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) over the past two decades has renewed interest in how these policies affect the behaviour of beneficiaries in the labour market—in particular, whether or not they discourage labour supply or labour m...

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Autores principales: Bergolo, Marcelo, Cruces, Guillermo Antonio, Galván, Estefanía
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Publicado: 2015
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Ciencias Económicas
Asistencia social
Mercado de trabajo
Toma de decisiones
Uruguay
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/141716
https://issuu.com/ipc-ig_publications/docs/pif32_social_protection_entrepreneu
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spelling I19-R120-10915-1417162023-06-01T20:07:32Z http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/141716 https://issuu.com/ipc-ig_publications/docs/pif32_social_protection_entrepreneu issn:2318-8995 Social Assistance, Labour Markets and Intra-household Decision-making: Evaluation of the AFAM-PE Programme in Uruguay Bergolo, Marcelo Cruces, Guillermo Antonio Galván, Estefanía 2015 2022-09-07T18:26:14Z en Ciencias Económicas Asistencia social Mercado de trabajo Toma de decisiones Uruguay The expansion of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) over the past two decades has renewed interest in how these policies affect the behaviour of beneficiaries in the labour market—in particular, whether or not they discourage labour supply or labour market formalisation. Moreover, the view that women’s empowerment is conducive to efficiency and development has shaped the political debate and influenced socioeconomic policies in the region. Thus, most CCT programmes in countries of the LAC region target poor and vulnerable families and see that women are the primary recipient of benefits; the main argument supporting such a distribution is that money received or earned by women is allocated differently in the household budget compared to money received or earned by men. Women tend to use the money in a way that improves the welfare of the household—and particularly of children—as a whole (Thomas 1990). Though women are the main recipients of CCTs, the gender implications of these programmes and their impact on the lives of women, particularly in terms of their behaviour in the labour market, has not been thoroughly studied (see Bosch and Manacorda 2012 for a recent survey). Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales Articulo Articulo http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf 18-21
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topic Ciencias Económicas
Asistencia social
Mercado de trabajo
Toma de decisiones
Uruguay
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Asistencia social
Mercado de trabajo
Toma de decisiones
Uruguay
Bergolo, Marcelo
Cruces, Guillermo Antonio
Galván, Estefanía
Social Assistance, Labour Markets and Intra-household Decision-making: Evaluation of the AFAM-PE Programme in Uruguay
topic_facet Ciencias Económicas
Asistencia social
Mercado de trabajo
Toma de decisiones
Uruguay
description The expansion of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) over the past two decades has renewed interest in how these policies affect the behaviour of beneficiaries in the labour market—in particular, whether or not they discourage labour supply or labour market formalisation. Moreover, the view that women’s empowerment is conducive to efficiency and development has shaped the political debate and influenced socioeconomic policies in the region. Thus, most CCT programmes in countries of the LAC region target poor and vulnerable families and see that women are the primary recipient of benefits; the main argument supporting such a distribution is that money received or earned by women is allocated differently in the household budget compared to money received or earned by men. Women tend to use the money in a way that improves the welfare of the household—and particularly of children—as a whole (Thomas 1990). Though women are the main recipients of CCTs, the gender implications of these programmes and their impact on the lives of women, particularly in terms of their behaviour in the labour market, has not been thoroughly studied (see Bosch and Manacorda 2012 for a recent survey).
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Cruces, Guillermo Antonio
Galván, Estefanía
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Galván, Estefanía
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title Social Assistance, Labour Markets and Intra-household Decision-making: Evaluation of the AFAM-PE Programme in Uruguay
title_short Social Assistance, Labour Markets and Intra-household Decision-making: Evaluation of the AFAM-PE Programme in Uruguay
title_full Social Assistance, Labour Markets and Intra-household Decision-making: Evaluation of the AFAM-PE Programme in Uruguay
title_fullStr Social Assistance, Labour Markets and Intra-household Decision-making: Evaluation of the AFAM-PE Programme in Uruguay
title_full_unstemmed Social Assistance, Labour Markets and Intra-household Decision-making: Evaluation of the AFAM-PE Programme in Uruguay
title_sort social assistance, labour markets and intra-household decision-making: evaluation of the afam-pe programme in uruguay
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