Social assistance and informality: Examining the Link in Colombia
This paper presents evidence on the labor market effects of social assistance programs in the short and medium run. We evaluate the impact of a Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program “Familias en Acción” on informality at the individual level in Colombia. We include three different perspectives on...
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- 2018
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- Universidad del Rosario
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http://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/18272
- Palabra clave:
- Informalidad
Transferencias monetarias condicionadas
Evaluación
Economía laboral
Informality
Conditional cash transfers
Evaluation
Economía informal
Transferencias monetarias condicionadas
Congresos, conferencias, etc.
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Social assistance and informality: Examining the Link in ColombiaInformalidadTransferencias monetarias condicionadasEvaluaciónEconomía laboralInformalityConditional cash transfersEvaluationEconomía informalTransferencias monetarias condicionadasCongresos, conferencias, etc.This paper presents evidence on the labor market effects of social assistance programs in the short and medium run. We evaluate the impact of a Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program “Familias en Acción” on informality at the individual level in Colombia. We include three different perspectives on informality that capture different aspectsof the problem. We argue that even though it is not a desirable result, being a beneficiary of social programs may create perverse incentives towards informality. Weused survey data from the “Familias en Acción” program to identify whether the program had any effect on workers’ propensity to participate in the informal labor market in Colombia both one and four years after the program’s implementation. Toovercome the problem of unobserved time-invariant differences, our empirical strategy includes a combination of matching algorithms and difference-in-differences methodology. Our results show that worker’s informality condition may be affected by receiving CCT income.Universidad del Rosario. Facultad de Economía2018-05-282018-08-08T20:57:28Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObjecthttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_c94fapplication/pdfhttps://doi.org/10.48713/10336_18272http://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/18272instname:Universidad del Rosarioreponame:Repositorio Institucional EdocURenghttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/co/http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Ospina, MónicaSaavedra, Fabiolaoai:repository.urosario.edu.co:10336/182722021-06-03T00:49:02Z |
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Social assistance and informality: Examining the Link in Colombia |
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Social assistance and informality: Examining the Link in Colombia |
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Social assistance and informality: Examining the Link in Colombia Informalidad Transferencias monetarias condicionadas Evaluación Economía laboral Informality Conditional cash transfers Evaluation Economía informal Transferencias monetarias condicionadas Congresos, conferencias, etc. |
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Social assistance and informality: Examining the Link in Colombia |
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Social assistance and informality: Examining the Link in Colombia |
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Social assistance and informality: Examining the Link in Colombia |
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Social assistance and informality: Examining the Link in Colombia |
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Social assistance and informality: Examining the Link in Colombia |
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Informalidad Transferencias monetarias condicionadas Evaluación Economía laboral Informality Conditional cash transfers Evaluation Economía informal Transferencias monetarias condicionadas Congresos, conferencias, etc. |
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Informalidad Transferencias monetarias condicionadas Evaluación Economía laboral Informality Conditional cash transfers Evaluation Economía informal Transferencias monetarias condicionadas Congresos, conferencias, etc. |
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This paper presents evidence on the labor market effects of social assistance programs in the short and medium run. We evaluate the impact of a Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program “Familias en Acción” on informality at the individual level in Colombia. We include three different perspectives on informality that capture different aspectsof the problem. We argue that even though it is not a desirable result, being a beneficiary of social programs may create perverse incentives towards informality. Weused survey data from the “Familias en Acción” program to identify whether the program had any effect on workers’ propensity to participate in the informal labor market in Colombia both one and four years after the program’s implementation. Toovercome the problem of unobserved time-invariant differences, our empirical strategy includes a combination of matching algorithms and difference-in-differences methodology. Our results show that worker’s informality condition may be affected by receiving CCT income. |
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