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Gradients of the intergenerational transmission of health in developing countries
Bhalotra, Sonia; Rawlings, Samantha - 2009
This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal and child health as well as in aggregate economic conditions. The country-level panel is exploited to control for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269601
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Do Cities Mitigate or Exacerbate Environmental Damages to Health?
Molitor, David; White, Corey - 2023
Do environmental conditions pose greater health risks to individuals living in urban or rural areas? The answer is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469545
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Gradients of the Intergenerational Transmission of Health in Developing Countries
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rawlings, Samantha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal and child health as well as in aggregate economic conditions. The country-level panel is exploited to control for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004976885
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Determinants of Income Mobility and Household Poverty Dynamics in South Africa
Woolard, Ingrid; Klasen, Stephan - 2004
market in an environment of high unemployment. Using a multivariate analysis, we see that transitory incomes play a large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261797
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Surviving Unemployment without State Support: Unemployment and Household Formation in South Africa
Klasen, Stephan; Woolard, Ingrid - 2000
High unemployment in many OECD countries is often attributed, at least in part, to the generosity and long duration of unemployment compensation. It is therefore instructive to examine a country where high unemployment exists despite the near complete absence of an unemployment insurance system....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262445
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A theory of efficiency wage with multiple unemployment equilibria: how a higher minimum wage law can curb unemployment
Basu, Kaushik; Felkey, Amanda J. - 2008
This paper uses efficiency wage theory and the existence of community-based sharing to hypothesize that labor markets in developing countries have multiple equilibria - the same economy can be stuck at different levels of unemployment with different levels of wages. The model is meant for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268768
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Does human capital protect workers against exogenous shocks? South Africa in the 2008 - 2009 crisis
Leung, Ron; Stampini, Marco; Vencatachellum, Désiré - 2009
The financial and economic crisis of 2008 and 2009 has taken its toll on the South African economy. The economy contracted for the first time since 1998, and entered recession during the fourth quarter of 2008. The GDP contraction was soon transmitted to the labor market. Between the second...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269538
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Is there an informal employment wage penalty? Evidence from South Africa
Badaoui, Eliane; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank A. - 2007
We estimate the wage penalty associated with working in the South African informal sector. To this end we use a rich data set on non-self employed males that allows one to accurately distinguish workers employed in the informal sector from those employed in the formal sector and link individuals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277113
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South-South Migration and the Labor Market: Evidence from South Africa
Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria; Mendola, Mariapia - 2013
Using census data for 1996, 2001 and 2007 we study the labor market effect of immigration to South Africa. The paper contributes to a small but growing literature on the impact of South-South migration by looking at one of the most attractive destinations for migrant workers in Sub-Saharan...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319403
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Foreign direct investment, black economic empowerment and labour productivity in South Africa
Mebratie, Anagaw Derseh; Bedi, Arjun S. - 2011
The impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestically owned firms in developing countries has been widely debated in the literature. It has been argued that FDI provides access to advanced technologies and other intangible assets which may spill over to the host country and allow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282180