O Programa Bolsa Família estimula a migração dos trabalhadores de baixa renda ao mercado informal?

Abstract

Conditional Income Transfer Programs, Bolsa Família Program in Brazil, became an innovative instrument for reducing social inequality in many countries, specifically, in Latin America, where they were widely adopted. These programs have proven effective in several aspects such as reducing poverty and inequality, improving schooling rates, etc. An aspect that has remained unmentioned of these programs was their potential to encourage targeted workers of the program to migrate to the informal labour market in order to remain "invisible" to program managers and, thus, receive the benefits even when they do not qualify according to program standards. This study applies VECM (Vector Error Corrector Model) to show this issue may be occurring in the six Brazilian state capitals, included in the IBGE Monthly Employment Survey, from the creation of the program, in 2004, until March 2016.