Citizen's Income and Welfare Regimes in Latin America: From Cash Transfers to Rights (Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee)
Language: English
Pages: 275
ISBN: 0230338216
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Citizen's Income and Welfare Regimes in Latin America promotes the Basic Income (BI) proposal as a model to reform policies of income transfers in Latin America.
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employed, as long as they report incomes below the minimum legal wage for formal work. A percentage of the benefit is retained each month to be paid later upon compliance with conditionalities regarding health checkups and educational attainment. The AUH, financed with resources from the payroll tax, feeds the debate about CI in the region. In this case, beneficiaries are not poor families as such but the unemployed and the informal workers with low income. In this chapter the likely impacts of
Administration (2003–2010) logged a net positive balance of 11.2 million formal, protected jobs, as compared to 2 million under the Cardoso Administration (1995–2002). CAGED, Cadastro Geral de Empregados e Desempregados, Ministério do Trabalho e Emprego, Brazil. 13. The open unemployment rate, measured by the Monthly Employment Survey (PME) of the IBGE (Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística), was 6.7% in 2010, as compared to 12.4% in 2003. 14. From January 2003 (the first year of the
oil revenues to funding a CI program in the country (again, 2.7). The reserve people express might be based on: (i) their suspicion that people would refrain from working (2.1, close to 2-“agree”) and (ii) their attachment to a society where working is central, as expressed by their agreement with the statement that associates the development of talents with having a job (2.0, close to 2-“agree”). On the worthiness of CI as a device for providing economic security, the answers are very close to
Notice the similarity with Schokkaert’s (1999b) claim, according to which questionnaire studies reveal that the typical individual “wants to check whether the needy are really needy and is not eager to guarantee an unconditional grant to those able-bodied persons who simply choose not to work.” SUPPORT AN UNCONDITIONAL CITIZEN’S INCOME 165 12. Such line of reasoning is developed by Kerstenetzky (2009) in her critical analysis of recent poverty relief policies in Brazil. 13. World Values
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