TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Verlaat, Timo
AU  - Todeschini, Federico
AU  - Ramos, Xavier
        TI  - The Employment Effects of Generous  and Unconditional Cash Support
        PY  - 2023/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 15976
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15976
        AB  - While unconditional cash transfers have been studied extensively in developing countries, little is known about their effects in a wealthier context. Through a randomized controlled trial, we study the employment effects of a generous and unconditional transfer targeting low-income families in Spain. Two years into the program, subjects assigned to treatment are 20 percent less likely to work than subjects assigned to a control group. 
Assignment to an activation plan does not attenuate adverse effects; a more lenient transfer withdrawal rate does. It appears that effects are driven by subjects with children, suggesting substitution of labour for care tasks.

        KW  - policy evaluation
KW  - basic income
KW  - cash transfer
KW  - welfare reform
KW  - RCT
        ER  -