According to Becker's (1957) theory of taste-based employer discrimination, pure economic rents are necessary for discrimination to be observed in the labor market. Increased competition and reduced rents in the market for final goods should therefore lead to reduced labor market discrimination....

This article analyses the impact of the Programa Bolsa Família (PBF), Brazil's Conditional Cash Transfer Programme), by way of an income shock on the labour supply of beneficiaries as measured by probability of working and number of weekly hours worked by both men and women. Bolsa Família...

Since the 1990s, Latin American governments have implemented various conditional cash transfer programmes (CCTs). The objective of CCTs is to alleviate poverty in the short run and create conditions for upward social mobility in the long run through human capital investments. CCTs target...