Documents & Reports
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Does Local Employment Growth Accelerate Exits from Social Assistance ? Evidence From Brazil’s Conditional Cash Transfer Bolsa Familia (English)
A substantial literature studied the capacity of safety nets to expand automatically during labor market shocks; however, less is known about the dynamics of social assistance when labor market conditions...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10676 Document Date: January 18, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Fietz,Katharina Maria,Morgandi,Matteo,Lyrio De Oliveira,Gabriel,Ferreira Cruz E Superti,Luiz Henrique
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Beneficiary Dynamics in the Bolsa Familia Conditional Cash Transfer - Capabilities, Constraints and the Local Labor Market (English)
Bolsa Familia (BF) is one of the earliest established poverty-targeted conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs in the world, and, over time, it has experienced a large and heterogenous churn in beneficiaries...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 184967 Document Date: September 21, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Morgandi,Matteo,Fietz,Katharina Maria,Ferreira Cruz E Superti,Luiz Henrique
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From Struggle to Opportunity - The Profile of Brazil’s Working Poor and Implications for Economic Inclusion (English)
The purpose of the note is to inform the design of policies and instruments that can enhance labor market outcomes of Brazil’s poor and vulnerable populations. Global and regional experiences show that...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 184969 Document Date: September 21, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Morgandi,Matteo,Fietz,Katharina Maria,Ed,Malin Linnea Sofia,Fagundes De Oliveira,Gabriel
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Balancing Stability and Transition : A First Assessment of Regra de Permanência in Bolsa Familia (Portuguese)
Policy makers in many countries with well-established conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs are increasingly interested in balancing income support with measures stimulating beneficiaries’ financial...
Document Type: Policy Note Report No.: 162843 Document Date: August 11, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Fietz,Katharina Maria,Falcao Silva,Tiago,Steta Gandara,Maria Concepcion,Morgandi,Matteo
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Balancing Stability and Transition : A First Assessment of Regra de Permanência in Bolsa Familia (English)
Policy makers in many countries with well-established conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs are increasingly interested in balancing income support with measures stimulating beneficiaries’ financial...
Document Type: Policy Note Report No.: 162843 Document Date: July 1, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Fietz,Katharina Maria,Falcao Silva,Tiago,Steta Gandara,Maria Concepcion,Morgandi,Matteo
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Enhancing Resilience of Low Income Workers in Brazil : Financial Instruments and Innovations (English)
While the Brazilian social protection system provides instruments to reduce the risk of destitution from old age and disability with broad coverage, protection against labor income shocks in Brazil remains...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 165722 Document Date: April 1, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Morgandi,Matteo,Falcao Silva,Tiago,Neri,Marcelo Cortes,Ed,Malin Linnea Sofia,Fietz,Katharina Maria,Lyrio De Oliveira,Gabriel,Steta Gandara,Maria Concepcion
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Enhancing Resilience of Low Income Workers in Brazil : Financial Instruments and Innovations (Portuguese)
While the Brazilian social protection system provides instruments to reduce the risk of destitution from old age and disability with broad coverage, protection against labor income shocks in Brazil remains...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 165722 Document Date: April 1, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Morgandi,Matteo,Falcao Silva,Tiago,Neri,Marcelo Cortes,Ed,Malin Linnea Sofia,Fietz,Katharina Maria,Lyrio De Oliveira,Gabriel,Steta Gandara,Maria Concepcion
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Enhancing Coverage and Cost-effectiveness of Brazil’s Unemployment Protection System : Insights from International Experience (Portuguese)
The objective of the policy note is to inform reforms of the unemployment protection system of Brazil, through a comparison of its salient features with international benchmarks, and by taking stock of...
Document Type: Report Report No.: AUS0001674 Document Date: December 1, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Morgandi,Matteo,Fietz,Katharina Maria,Ed,Malin Linnea Sofia,De Farias,Alison Rocha,Weber,Michael
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Enhancing Coverage and Cost-effectiveness of Brazil’s Unemployment Protection System : Insights from International Experience (English)
The objective of the policy note is to inform reforms of the unemployment protection system of Brazil, through a comparison of its salient features with international benchmarks, and by taking stock of...
Document Type: Report Report No.: AUS0001674 Document Date: December 1, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Morgandi,Matteo,Fietz,Katharina Maria,Ed,Malin Linnea Sofia,De Farias,Alison Rocha,Weber,Michael
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Brazil - The Contrato Verde Amarelo Wage Subsidy : An Initial Assessment (English)
In November 2019, the Brazilian government introduced, as part of an employment stimulus package, the Contrato Verde Amarelo (CVA), a wage subsidy program for young first-time employees entering in contracts...
Document Type: Policy Note Report No.: AUS0001675 Document Date: May 1, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Morgandi,Matteo,Fietz,Katharina Maria,Ed,Malin Linnea Sofia,Arias, Alison
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Federal Spending on Social Assistance Programs in Brazil : Background Chapter of the 2018 Expenditure Review : A Fair Adjustment : Efficiency and Equity of Public Spending in Brazil (English)
The development of Brazil’s modern social safety net is quite recent, and social assistance programs claim a relatively small share of resources of the broader social sector. A key feature of the Brazilian...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 157027 Document Date: December 31, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Lindert,Kathy A.,Moreira Da Silva,Vanessa,Battaglin Schwengber,Rovane,Mayer Gukovas,Renata,Morgandi,Matteo,Packard,Truman G.,Skoufias,Emmanuel,Curralero,Claudia Regina Baddini,Steta Gandara,Maria Concepcion,Pereira Sousa Tsukada Lehmann,Raquel Kimie,Damerau,Tomas M.,Fleischhaker,Cornelius,Fietz,Katharina Maria