scholarly journals Labor Supply Responses to Large Social Transfers: Longitudinal Evidence from South Africa

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cally Ardington ◽  
Anne Case ◽  
Victoria Hosegood
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Social Transfers

scholarly journals Labor Supply Responses to Large Social Transfers: Longitudinal Evidence from South Africa

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cally Ardington ◽  
Anne Case ◽  
Victoria Hosegood
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Cash Transfers ◽  
Small Children ◽  
Household Resources ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Social Transfers

We quantify the labor supply responses of prime-aged adults to the presence of pensioners in their households, using longitudinal data collected in South Africa. We compare households and individuals before and after pension receipt and pension loss, which allows us to control for a host of unobservable household and individual characteristics that may determine labor market behavior. We find large cash transfers to the elderly lead to increased employment among prime-aged adults, which occurs primarily through labor migration. The pension's impact is attributable to the increase in household resources it represents, which can be used to stake migrants until they become self-sufficient, and to the presence of pensioners who can care for small children, which allows prime-aged adults to look for work elsewhere. (JEL H23, H55, I38, J22, O15)

Government transfers, income inequality and poverty in South Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (12) ◽  
pp. 1349-1368
Author(s):  
Charity Gomo
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
General Equilibrium ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
South African ◽  
Percent Reduction ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Simulation Results ◽  
Government Transfers ◽  
The Impact

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to quantify the impact of social or government transfers on income inequality and poverty in South Africa.Design/methodology/approachA top-down, bottom-up (TD-BU) model which combines an econometrically estimated labor supply model, a detailed tax-benefit module and a computable general equilibrium model is used in order to analyze the impact of government transfers on income inequality and poverty in South Africa. The paper uses a merged South African income and expenditure household survey and labor force survey for the year 2000, and a South African social accounting matrix as the main data sets.FindingsSimulation results suggest that doubling of government transfers lead to a 5.5 percent reduction in poverty if a relative poverty measure is used and a 7 percent reduction if an absolute poverty line is used. In addition, simulation results show differences in poverty and inequality measures between the MS-only model and the linked TD-BU model confirming the importance of linking the two models.Originality/valueThe TD-BU approach is important since it explicitly accounts for the following aspects: that labor supply should adjust to changes in the tax-benefit model, general equilibrium effects and the heterogeneity of economic agents. This allows for a richer micro-household modeling.

scholarly journals Cash Transfers, Labor Supply, and Gender Inequality: Evidence from South Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 159-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margherita Scarlato ◽  
Giorgio d'Agostino
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Cash Transfers ◽  
And Gender

All the World’s a Workplace

No Man's Land ◽  
2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cindy Hahamovitch
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigrant Workers ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
True Purpose ◽  
The World ◽  
Supply Systems

This chapter discusses further developments for guestworkers around the world. As efforts to protect labor standards, make immigration temporary, or manage migration, guestworker programs have failed and still fail, whether they are in the United States, the Middle East, South Africa, or the Pacific Rim. Yet as labor supply systems designed to quarantine immigrant workers from natives and keep them a caste apart, they have been very effective. They have drawn nations together in a new, government-crafted dependency, in which the world's wealthy nations import foreigners to do their hardest, dirtiest, and often their most intimate work. The chapter argues that this, indeed, was their true purpose and their most pernicious legacy.

Time and Latitude in South Africa

1972 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 27-38
Author(s):  
J. Hers
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Astronomical Observations ◽  
Royal Observatory ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Astronomical Determination ◽  
Limited Accuracy ◽  
Better Than

In South Africa the modern outlook towards time may be said to have started in 1948. Both the two major observatories, The Royal Observatory in Cape Town and the Union Observatory (now known as the Republic Observatory) in Johannesburg had, of course, been involved in the astronomical determination of time almost from their inception, and the Johannesburg Observatory has been responsible for the official time of South Africa since 1908. However the pendulum clocks then in use could not be relied on to provide an accuracy better than about 1/10 second, which was of the same order as that of the astronomical observations. It is doubtful if much use was made of even this limited accuracy outside the two observatories, and although there may – occasionally have been a demand for more accurate time, it was certainly not voiced.

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