Arbeitspapier

Institutionalizing segregation: Conditional cash transfers and employment choices

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 support for these programmes. This paper analyses Ecuador's conditional cash transfer programme, the Bono de Desarrollo Humano. The key finding is that concerns about perverse incentives appear largely misplaced. By examining broader patterns of institutionalization of occupational gender segregation, the role of cash transfers is found to be trivial to the deepening of informality and inactivity among recipients.

ISBN
978-92-9256-134-5
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2016/91

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
Thema
cash transfers
informality
employment
segregation
Ecuador

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Palacio, María Gabriela
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
(wo)
Helsinki
(wann)
2016

DOI
doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2016/134-5
Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Palacio, María Gabriela
  • The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Entstanden

  • 2016

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