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Supporting informal carers of older people : Policies to leave no carer behind
Rocard, Eileen - 2022
Informal carers – family and friends who perform care - are the first line of support for older people. About 60% of older people who receive care at home report receiving only informal care across OECD countries. While informal carers help to contain public costs, those costs are borne...
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The popular economy in urban Latin America : informality, materiality, and gender in commerce
Dürr, Eveline (ed., introduction);  … - "Urban Economies: Grassroots Entrepreneurs and … - 2019
authors of this volume address cases in Brazil, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru. 0The guiding questions of these case …
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Securing livelihoods : informal economy practices and institutions
Hillenkamp, Isabelle (contributor);  … - 2013 - 1. ed.
and vulnerability. Popular cooperatives and local development in South-East Brazil: towards socio-economic pluralism … Saiag -- Microcredit policies in Brazil: an analysis of community development banks / Jeová Carvalho de França Filho … Quito, Ecuador / Sergio Ferragut and Georgina M. Gómez -- Formalizing the informal in Rwanda: from artisanal to modern brick …
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Institutionalizing segregation : conditional cash transfers and employment choices
Palacio, María Gabriela - 2016
protection programmes and may undermine the political support for these programmes. This paper analyses Ecuador’s conditional …
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Informality and pension reforms in Bolivia : the case of Renta Dignidad
Canelas, Carla; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2021
examining the effect of Bolivia's Renta Dignidad, a universal non-contributory old-age pension that covers all Bolivians aged 60 …
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Bolsa Família, occupational choice and informality in Brazil
Barbosa, Ana Luiza Neves de Holanda; Corseuil, Carlos … - 2013
This study analyses the impact of the conditional cash transfer programme, Programa Bolsa Família, on the occupational composition of the Brazilian labour market. The methodology relies on a discontinuity in the programme eligibility rule regarding children's age to attain the identification of...
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Conditional cash transfer and informality in Brazil
Barbosa, Ana Luiza Neves de Holanda; Corseuil, Carlos … - In: IZA journal of labor & development 3 (2014), pp. 1-18
This study analyses the impact of Bolsa Família (a Brazilian conditional cash transfer programme) in the allocation of labour inputs regarding formal and informal activities. The methodology relies on a discontinuity in the programme eligibility rule regarding children's age to attain the...
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Cash-on-hand in developing countries and the value of social insurance : evidence from Brazil
Britto, Diogo G. C. - 2016
This paper first exploits a "bonus" policy providing low-income workers with cash grants in Brazil to study the effect … ratio in Brazil to be as large as 98%, similarly to values previously found in the US. It suggests that, contrary to common …
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Motherhood and flexible jobs : evidence from Latin American countries
Berniell, Inés; Berniell, Lucila; Mata, Dolores de la; … - 2021
around the birth of the first child based on panel data from national household surveys for Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay …
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Los orígenes de la cocaína: colonización y desarrollo fallido en los Andes Amazónicos
Gootenberg, Paul (ed.); Dávalos, Liliana M. (ed.) - 2021 - Primera edición en español
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