From Struggle to Opportunity - The Profile of Brazil's Working Poor and Implications for Economic Inclusion (English)

Morgandi,Matteo; Fietz,Katharina Maria; Ed,Malin Linnea Sofia; Fagundes De Oliveira,Gabriel

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From Struggle to Opportunity - The Profile of Brazil's Working Poor and Implications for Economic Inclusion (English)

21 September 2023

Summary

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 active labor market programs, and more broadly economic inclusion interventions, both at the strategic level and for territorial implementation, require population-specific labor market diagnostics. And aggregate labor statistics do not portray adequately the specific situation of the poor and vulnerable. This note studies how Brazil's poor and vulnerable engage in the labor market and in public labor market policies, or fail to do so, according to individual, family and location characteristics. The authors focus on two broad populations of interest: work-able adults in households living below the Cadastro Único poverty line (the poor), and its subset of beneficiaries of the conditional cash transfer Bolsa Familia (BF), the country's largest social program in 2019, and named Auxilio Brasil (AB).

Disclosure Date

2023/09/21

Disclosure Status

Disclosed

Doc Name

From Struggle to Opportunity - The Profile of Brazil's Working Poor and Implications for Economic Inclusion

Product Line

Advisory Services & Analytics

Rel Proj ID

BR-Social Protection Reforms For Restructuring And Recovery During -- P174836

Sector

Public Administration - Social Protection

TF No/Name

TF0B0931-R16 RSR BR Promoting Gender Equity,TF0B3106-Understanding Challenges in Access to Labor Market and Social Services,TF0B4068-Brazil - Adaptation of Brazil's parenting program to provide remote sup,TF0B7109-BR - SIEF IE Optimal Design of Digital Early Childhood Development Inte,TF0B7490-R19 Women’s Economic Inclusion through Labor and Social Assistance

Theme

Social Safety Nets,Gender,Human Development and Gender,Economic Policy,Social Protection,Social Development and Protection,Fiscal Policy,Disease Control,Pandemic Response,Labor Market Policy and Programs,Active Labor Market Programs,Fiscal sustainability,Social Insurance and Pensions,Social protection delivery systems

Unit Owning

Social Protection & Labor LCR (HLCSP)

Version Type

Final

Volume No

1

Published in

United States of America