Strategies of the unemployed in South Africa: Does moving allow the unemployed to get ahead?

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dc.creatorEbrahim, Amina
dc.creatorLeibbrandt, Murray
dc.creatorWoolard, Ingrid
dc.date2015-10-08T12:55:38Z
dc.date2015-10-08T12:55:38Z
dc.date2015-10
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-06T10:55:51Z
dc.date.available2017-06-06T10:55:51Z
dc.date.issued2017-06-06
dc.descriptionThis paper examines the survival strategies of the unemployed using the balanced panel of the first three waves of the National Income Dynamics Study. We find that in response to unemployment and almost no unemployment insurance, unemployed individuals look to parents, relatives and friends for economic support. They are more likely to attach themselves to household that have some income through an employed member or in receive of state support. In many cases the unemployed delay setting up their own households while others move back into family households when faced with persistent unemployment. We use a probit model to show that the unemployed who move are more likely to be employed in a successive wave. The effect of moving on employment status remains significant and positive when we take into account household and individual characteristics. Moving allows the unemployed to get ahead.
dc.descriptionAmina Ebrahim: PhD student in SALDRU, the School of Economics, University of Cape Town Murray Leibbrandt: The DST/NRF Research Chair in Poverty and Inequality Research, the Director of SALDRU and a Principal Investigator on the National Income Dynamics Study. Ingrid Woolard: Professor in the School of Economics, a Research Associate in SALDRU, a Principal Investigator on the National Income Dynamics Study.
dc.descriptionAmina Ebrahim acknowledges Master’s Scholarship funding from an NRF Grand Challenges Grant to SALDRU for work on South Africa’s Unfolding Human and Social Dynamics. Murray Leibbrandt acknowledges the Research Chairs Initiative of the Department of Science and Technology and National Research Foundation for funding his work as the Research Chair in Poverty and Inequality.
dc.identifierEbrahim, A., Leibbrandt, M., Woolard, I. (2015). Strategies of the unemployed in South Africa: Does moving allow the unemployed to get ahead?. A Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit Working Paper Number 157 Cape Town: SALDRU, University of Cape Town
dc.identifier978-1-928281-18-4
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11090/790
dc.identifier.ris TY - Working Paper DA - 2017-06-06 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Unemployment KW - National Income Dynamics Study KW - South Africa LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2017 T1 - Strategies of the unemployed in South Africa: Does moving allow the unemployed to get ahead? TI - Strategies of the unemployed in South Africa: Does moving allow the unemployed to get ahead? UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11090/790 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11090/790
dc.languageen
dc.publisher.departmentSALDRUen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Commerceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.relationSaldru Working Paper;157
dc.subjectUnemployment
dc.subjectNational Income Dynamics Study
dc.subjectSouth Africa
dc.titleStrategies of the unemployed in South Africa: Does moving allow the unemployed to get ahead?
dc.typeWorking Paper
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