How important were social and labour market policies in reducing poverty across different families in Argentina? A dynamic approach

MAURIZIO, ROXANA; PERROT, BÁRBARA; VILLAFAÑE, SOLEDAD

Kiel, Alemania

Congreso; Income Distribution and the Family Conference; 2008

The paper analyzes the factors associated to the reduction of poverty between 2003 and2006 in Argentina. In particular, it examines the role of the labour market, the monetarytransfers and demographic factors in poverty exits taking into account the familycomposition of the households. The data used comes from the Permanent HouseholdSurvey (EPH).Results indicate that labour market events are the most associated with these transitionsbecause they are more frequent and also due to their significant impact on family incomes.In addition, the results show that households with children and female household headsface greater difficulties to exit poverty than the rest of the households.