01928cas a2200265 a 4500 AALejournalIMF022188 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781513547701 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Fruttero, Anna. Social Programs and Formal Employment : Evidence from the Brazilian Bolsa Familia Program / Anna Fruttero, Alexandre Ribeiro Leichsenring, Luis Henrique Paiva. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2020. 1 online resource (21 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Employment is key to combating poverty. Thus, detractors of social assistance programs argue that they create disincentives to work. While there is substantial evidence showing limited effects of these programs on overall labor supply, the jury is still out with respect to their impact on formal employment. This paper exploits an unannounced change in the eligibility rule of the Bolsa Familia program in Brazil, one of the oldest and largest conditional cash transfers in the world, to identify the causal impact of the program on formal employment, combining three large administrative datasets. This paper finds that the program has a positive effect on entry in formal labor market, especially for younger cohorts. Mode of access: Internet Henrique Paiva, Luis. Ribeiro Leichsenring, Alexandre. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2020/099 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2020/099/001.2020.issue-099-en.xml IMF e-Library