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Digital labour platforms as shock absorbers : evidence from COVID-19

Jones, Sam; Manhique, Ivan - 2022

Digital labour platforms have grown five-fold over the last decade, enabling significant expansion in gig work worldwide. We interrogate the criticism that these platforms tend to amplify aggregate economic shocks for registered users (workers). Based on the universe of records from a matching...

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Who benefits from job training programmes? : evidence from a high-dosage programme in Brazil

Mata, Daniel da; Oliveira, Rodrigo Carvalho; Silva, … - 2021

Using admission lotteries and registry data linking labour market outcomes, we study the effect of a vocational training programme focused on disadvantaged individuals in Brazil. The intensive programme is an 18-month classroom training coupled with a 6-month on-the-job training provided by...

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The long(er)-term impacts of Chile Solidario on human capital and labour income

Neidhöfer, Guido; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2017

This paper examines Chile Solidario, a social protection programme that provides poor households in Chile with …. We assess the programme's longer-term impact on educational attainment and labour income at ages 25-28. Overall, Chile … concentrated in urban areas. Our results indicate that the impact of Chile Solidario depends on societal and structural factors …

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Informality and pension reforms in Bolivia : the case of Renta Dignidad

Canelas, Carla; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2021

How social protection programmes affect work choices is a question that has been at the centre of labour economics research for decades. More recently, a scant literature has focused on the effects of social protection on work choices and informal employment in the context of low- and...

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The COVID-19 crisis and the South African informal economy : a stalled recovery

Rogan, Michael; Skinner, Caroline - 2022

This paper seeks to identify the differentiated impacts of the crisis on specific groups of informal workers. The analysis draws on official nationally representative labour force surveys collected quarterly by South Africa's national statistical agency (Statistics South Africa). Based on an...

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Welfare and redistributive effects of social assistance in the Global South

Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2019

This paper presents an analysis of the recent evolution of social assistance in the developing world, looking at its complex typological configuration, which has interlinked with, and partly reflects the complex demographic and epidemiological transitions and rapid urbanization and economic...

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Winning or buying hearts and minds? : cash transfers and political attitudes in Pakistan

Ghorpade, Yashodhan; Justino, Patricia - 2019

This paper studies how household-level receipts of cash transfers affect political attitudes in Pakistan. The paper exploits the locally exogenous eligibility cut-off of the flagship Benazir Income Support Programme to estimate causal effects. The main results show evidence of improved...

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Financing the Zambia social cash transfer scale-up : a tax benefit microsimulation analysis based on MicroZAMOD

Kampamba, Remmy; Pellerano, Luca; Banda, Charles; … - 2019

This paper assesses the effects on poverty and inequality of the alternative targeting approaches that Zambia's Social Cash Transfer programme could take as its expansion continues during the period of the country's Seventh National Development Plan (2017-21). It further assesses the domestic...

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Institutionalizing segregation : conditional cash transfers and employment choices

Palacio, María Gabriela - 2016

Some claim that certain forms of social protection, conditional cash transfers in particular, result in perverse incentives for recipients in order to stay eligible for receiving benefits. This notion has a bearing on the design of social protection programmes and may undermine the political...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517300

Revisiting the impact of direct taxes and transfers on poverty and inequality in South Africa

Maboshe, Mashekwa; Woolard, Ingrid - 2018

This paper uses a recent household survey and the CEQ framework to revisit and extend previous research on the impact of fiscal policy on income redistribution, and poverty in South Africa. We find, in accordance with previous research, that direct taxes and cash transfers are overall...

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