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Estimating the short run effects of South Africa's Employment Tax Incentive on youth employment probabilities using a difference-in-differences approach
Ranchhod, Vimal; Finn, Arden - Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit … - 2014
What effect did the introduction of the Employment Tax Incentive (ETI) have on youth employment probabilities in South … Africa in the short run? The ETI came into effect on the 1st of January 2014. Its purpose is to stimulate youth employment … levels and ease the challenges that many youth experience in finding their first jobs. Under the ETI, firms that employ youth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010940080
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Distance as a barrier to health care access in South Africa
Ardington, Cally; Leibbrandt, Murray; McLaren, Zoë - Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit … - 2013
Access to health care is a particular concern given the centrality of poor access in perpetuating poverty and inequality. South Africa's apartheid history leaves large racial disparities in access despite post-apartheid health policy to increase the number of health facilities, even in remote...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010690445
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Trends in teenage childbearing and schooling outcomes for children born to teens in South Africa
Branson, Nicola; Ardington, Cally; Leibbrandt, Murray - Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit … - 2013
Teenage childbearing is considered a social problem with costs to the teenage mother, her child and society at large. In South Africa, media attention suggests a contemporary crisis in teen childbearing; often linking this to a fear that the Child Support Grant incentivises motherhood among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010691317
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Effects of Household Shocks and Poverty on the Timing of Traditional Male Circumcision and HIV Risk in South Africa
Venkataramani, Atheendar S.; Maughan-Brown, Brendan - Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit … - 2013
Poverty may influence HIV risk by increasing vulnerability to economic shocks and thereby preventing key health investments. We explored this by examining the relationship between household shocks and the timing of traditional male circumcision, a practice associated with considerable expense...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607570
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Changes in education, employment and earnings in South Africa – A cohort analysis
Branson, Nicola; Ardington, Cally; Leibbrandt, Murray; … - Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit … - 2013
Rapid increases in educational attainment and the massification of secondary education in South Africa resulted in substantial differences in the supply and quality of educated workers across generations. This paper describes changes in the distribution of education across birth cohorts and how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896654
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Trends in teenage childbearing and schooling outcomes for children born to teens in South Africa
Branson, Nicola; Ardington, Cally; Leibbrandt, Murray - Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit … - 2013
Teenage childbearing is considered a social problem with costs to the teenage mother, her child and society at large. In South Africa, media attention suggests a contemporary crisis in teen childbearing; often linking this to a fear that the Child Support Grant incentivises motherhood among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896656
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Educational expenditure in South Africa: Evidence from the National Income Dynamics Study
Branson, Nicola; Kekana, Dineo; Lam, David - Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit … - 2013
Differential education expenditure by racial group was a pillar in the architecture of apartheid. School systems diverged by racial group, with large funding and curriculum differences (Fiske and Ladd, 2004). In 1994, spending on white learners was about 1.5 times the spending on urban African...
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School Enrolment and the Child Support Grant: Evidence from South Africa
Woolard, Ingrid; Eyal, Katherine - Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit … - 2013
The extension of the Child Support Grant in South Africa to all children aged 17 or under gives the opportunity to evaluate this type of social transfer and its effect on school enrolment. Using exogenous variation in the fraction of life exposed to the grant, we find the grant is associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896658
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Effects of Household Shocks and Poverty on the Timing of Traditional Male Circumcision and HIV Risk in South Africa
Venkataramani, Atheendar S.; Maughan-Brown, Brendan - Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit … - 2013
Poverty may influence HIV risk by increasing vulnerability to economic shocks and thereby preventing key health investments. We explored this by examining the relationship between household shocks and the timing of traditional male circumcision, a practice associated with considerable expense...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896661
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Determinants of smoking initiation in South Africa
Vellios, Nicole; van Walbeek, Corne - Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit … - 2014
This paper investigates the individual and household variables that influence the decision to start smoking. The data was drawn from wave 1 of the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) of 2008 and the analysis was performed using survival analysis. Based on the international literature and the...
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