Impacto do Bolsa Família sobre a procura por trabalho no meio rural nordestino

• Autor(a) principal: Ribeiro, Isadora Gomes
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Costa, Edward Martins, Carvalho, Rosemeiry Melo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
• Texto Completo: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/51286
• topic: Beneficio; Extrema pobreza; Governo

This paper has the objective to measure the effect of the Bolsa Família governmental program concerning the poor and extremely poor family head of household job search in the rural area of Brazil’s northeastern region that are not in the job market. The sample was composed by the 2016’s Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios (PNAD), conducted by the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística. In order to do that, it was used a combination of the entropy balancing and the Propensity Score Matching (PSM) method. Subsequently, an analysis of sensibility proposed by Becker & Caliendo (2007) was done, in order to verify how the non-observable bias affected the result of the average treatment effect on the treated (ATT). According to the results, recieving the social benefit results in a negative effect on the job search. Several factors can contribute to this effect on beneficiaries, among them, the income effect proposed by Tavares (2010), in which benefited families swap the job income by the non-job income.