TY - BOOK ID - 136019611 TI - Social Programs and Formal Employment: Evidence from the Brazilian Bolsa FamÃlia Program AU - Fruttero, Anna. AU - Henrique Paiva, Luis. AU - Ribeiro Leichsenring, Alexandre. PY - 2020 SN - 1513549324 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Brazil KW - Labor KW - Macroeconomics KW - Government Policy KW - Provision and Effects of Welfare Program KW - Time Allocation and Labor Supply KW - Demand and Supply of Labor: General KW - Labor Economics: General KW - Employment KW - Unemployment KW - Wages KW - Intergenerational Income Distribution KW - Aggregate Human Capital KW - Aggregate Labor Productivity KW - Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions KW - Labour KW - income economics KW - Labor markets KW - Labor supply KW - Personal income KW - National accounts KW - Labor market KW - Labor economics KW - Economic theory KW - Income KW - Income economics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136019611 AB - Employment is key to combating poverty. Thus, detractors of social assistance programs argue that they create disincentives to work. While there is substantial evidence showing limited effects of these programs on overall labor supply, the jury is still out with respect to their impact on formal employment. This paper exploits an unannounced change in the eligibility rule of the Bolsa Familia program in Brazil, one of the oldest and largest conditional cash transfers in the world, to identify the causal impact of the program on formal employment, combining three large administrative datasets. This paper finds that the program has a positive effect on entry in formal labor market, especially for younger cohorts. ER -