Cash transfers and the labor market

This paper studies the effects of cash transfers to the poor on the labor market. We build a matching model of the labor market with endogenous job destruction in which agents can be in three states: employed, unemployed, or out of the labor force (home production). Workers are heterogenous in their...

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Main Authors: Tiago Cavalcanti, Márcio Corrêa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fundação Getúlio Vargas 2010-06-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Economia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-71402010000200006