Back to Search
Start Over
Social protection and informality in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 11 (2021), PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 11, p e0259050 (2021), PLoS ONE
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021.
-
Abstract
- Latin American governments swiftly implemented income assistance programs to sustain families’ livelihoods during COVID-19 stay-at-home orders. This paper analyzes the potential coverage and generosity of these measures and assesses the suitability of current safety nets to deal with unexpected negative income shocks in 10 Latin American countries. The expansion of pre-existing programs (most notably conditional cash transfers and non-contributory pensions) during the COVID-19 crisis was generally insufficient to compensate for the inability to work among the poorest segments of the population. When COVID-19 ad hoc programs are analyzed, the coverage and replacement rates of regular labor income among households in the first quintile of the country’s labor income distribution increase substantially. Yet, these programs present substantial coverage challenges among families composed of fundamentally informal workers who are non-poor, but are at a high risk of poverty. These results highlight the limitations of the fragmented nature of social protection systems in the region.
- Subjects :
- Viral Diseases
Cash transfers
Latin Americans
Distribution (economics)
Social Distancing
Geographical locations
Social insurance
Medical Conditions
Medicine and Health Sciences
Family Characteristics
education.field_of_study
Multidisciplinary
Social distance
Infectious Diseases
Social protection
Income
Medicine
Social Welfare
Brazil
Research Article
Infectious Disease Control
Science
Physical Distancing
Population
Argentina
Public Policy
Colombia
Pensions
Development economics
El Salvador
Humans
education
Developing Countries
Pandemics
Chile (Country)
Poverty
SARS-CoV-2
business.industry
COVID-19
Covid 19
Central America
South America
Latin America
Socioeconomic Factors
North America
Uruguay
Emergencies
People and places
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 16
- Issue :
- 11
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6b79dfa8071071d73c9ee3e901ccd664