Tag
social_protection
3 findings
Policy & public sectorAdministrative Exclusion of Inactive Work Scheme BeneficiariesDigital direct deposit migration focused predominantly on recent workers, excluding former female laborers despite one-third of surveyed women having previously requested program work and 75% expressing a desire to work.Observational StudyDevelopmentSoft Skill Enhanced Social Entitlement and Benefit UtilizationSoft skills training increased worker utilization of government pensions by 2.48 percentage points (p < 0.10; relative to control mean of 3.9%) and government-subsidized healthcare by 2.26 percentage points (p < 0.05; relative to control mean of 0.6%, representing a nearly four-fold increase).RCTLabour & employmentSocial Benefit Formalization Disincentive (Welfare Trap)Monthly cash transfers restricted to non-formal workers created a statistically significant disincentive for program beneficiaries to accept formal employment contracts.Observational Study