IPCid-Ipea @ipcid-ipea.bsky.social · 01/07/2025📥 Read the Brief: [ipcid.org/publications/notes-on-bol…] #IPEAresearch #BolsaFamíliaEvidence 000
IPCid-Ipea @ipcid-ipea.bsky.social · 01/07/2025💡 Why This Matters Cash transfers didn't reduce work—they: 1️⃣ Enabled escape from low paid informal jobs 2️⃣ May have stimulated formal job growth (through similar channel as documented in (Gerard et al 2021) 110
IPCid-Ipea @ipcid-ipea.bsky.social · 01/07/2025🔍 The twist: • Participation rate includes BOTH employed + unemployed • When unemployment drops sharply (↓3.4 pp since 2019), participation can fall even as employment grows • This signals a healthier labor market, not laziness 100
IPCid-Ipea @ipcid-ipea.bsky.social · 01/07/2025🔍 Critical Context • Employment rate declines concentrated in exploitative work: Unpaid family workers: ↓1.1 pp (poorest quintile) Low paid informal workers: ↓2.1 pp (poorest quintile) Formal employment: ↑1.1 pp (bottom 40%) 100
IPCid-Ipea @ipcid-ipea.bsky.social · 01/07/2025📊 Key Findings ✅ Employment rate: ↑7.6 pp (51% 2020 → 58.6% 2024) ✅ Unemployment: ↓ to 4.2% (2024 historic low) 📉 Participation rate dip? Fewer job-seekers (↓3.4 pp unemployed compared to 2019) 100
IPCid-Ipea @ipcid-ipea.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Marcos Hecksher's @ipcid-ipea.bsky.social policy brief debunks the "lazy beneficiary" myth with Brazil's post-pandemic labor data. 100
IPCid-Ipea @ipcid-ipea.bsky.social · 01/07/2025🚨 New Research Alert (@IPCid-ipea.sky.social) ❌ The Myth: Critics point to Brazil's 2024 labor force participation rate (62.8%) still below 2019 level (63.9%) as "proof" people won't work. 143
IPCid-Ipea @ipcid-ipea.bsky.social · 01/07/2025🔍 The twist: • Participation rate includes BOTH employed + unemployed • When unemployment drops sharply (↓3.4 pp since 2019), participation can fall even as employment grows • This signals a healthier labor market, not laziness 000
IPCid-Ipea @ipcid-ipea.bsky.social · 01/07/2025🔍 Critical Context • Employment rate declines concentrated in exploitative work: Unpaid family workers: ↓1.1 pp (poorest quintile) Low paid informal workers: ↓2.1 pp (poorest quintile) Formal employment: ↑1.1 pp (bottom 40%) 100
IPCid-Ipea @ipcid-ipea.bsky.social · 01/07/2025📊 Key Findings ✅ Employment rate: ↑7.6 pp (51% 2020 → 58.6% 2024) ✅ Unemployment: ↓ to 4.2% (2024 historic low) 📉 Participation rate dip? Fewer job-seekers (↓3.4 pp unemployed compared to 2019) 100
IPCid-Ipea @ipcid-ipea.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Marcos Hecksher's @IPCid-ipea.sky.social policy brief debunks the "lazy beneficiary" myth with Brazil's post-pandemic labor data. 100
IPCid-Ipea @ipcid-ipea.bsky.social · 28/02/2025New Policy in Focus launched in Timor-Leste! 🚀 Featuring contributions from over 60 experts, this issue presents 22 original articles offering evidence-based insights to tackle food insecurity and malnutrition. 🍽️ #Ipea @wfp-de.bsky.social @socialprotection.org ipcid.org/news/the-fir...ipcid.orgThe first issue of the new IPCid Policy in Focus is launched in Timor-Leste – IPCid 021
Reposted by IPCid-IpeaG20 Brasil @g20org.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Hunger is unacceptable. With Brazilian leadership, the G20 launched a Global Alliance to eradicate hunger and poverty by 2030, a historic movement to end hunger worldwide. 172
Reposted by IPCid-Ipeasocialprotection.org @socialprotection.org · 26/11/2024⏰💻 The #SPorgWebinar ‘Reflections from the Forum on Social Protection in Fragility and Conflict’, organized by @STAAR_Facility, BASIC Research and @FCDOGovUK begins in 30 minutes! 🔗 Join us: buff.ly/495FPZS #sporg #sp #SocialProtection #SocialSecurity 012
