Impact of South Africa's older persons' grant on the labour market outcome of prime age individuals

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dc.contributor.advisorWoolard, Ingriden_ZA
dc.contributor.authorIdahosa, Love Odionen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-17T10:08:20Z
dc.date.available2014-10-17T10:08:20Z
dc.date.issued2014en_ZA
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThe study evaluates the impact of the presence of an individual who is age eligible for "state older persons' grant" on the labour force participation of prime age individuals who live with these individuals. Exploiting the panel structure of the National Income Dynamic Study (NIDS) data set, the study uses all three waves (2008, 2010 and 2012) of the data set to estimate if whether or not a causal relationship exists between the probability of employment of these prime age individuals and the existence of an individual eligible for pension in the household. Apart from employing cross sectional methods, the study makes use of pooled OLS and an Individual Fixed Effect model to estimate different equation specifications which control for various factors. To facilitate better comparison with previous literature, certain regression specifications in both the cross section and Panel evaluation methods restricts the sample to households with at least three generations of individuals residing within the household unit. Consistent with previous research, cross sectional results show that holding other factors that affect the probability of employment constant, there exists a negative association between the existence of age eligible individuals in households with prime aged adults, and the probability that these adults are employed. Contrary to previous research however, the panel results uphold instead of contradicting the results from cross sectional analysis and hence suggest that there indeed exists a negative causal relationship between the existence of at least one pension eligible individual and the probability that prime age adults living with them are employed. The results also find that consistent with previous research, the males in the household are the major drivers of this effect.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationIdahosa, L. O. (2014). <i>Impact of South Africa's older persons' grant on the labour market outcome of prime age individuals</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,School of Economics. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8514en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationIdahosa, Love Odion. <i>"Impact of South Africa's older persons' grant on the labour market outcome of prime age individuals."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,School of Economics, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8514en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationIdahosa, L. 2014. Impact of South Africa's older persons' grant on the labour market outcome of prime age individuals. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Idahosa, Love Odion AB - The study evaluates the impact of the presence of an individual who is age eligible for "state older persons' grant" on the labour force participation of prime age individuals who live with these individuals. Exploiting the panel structure of the National Income Dynamic Study (NIDS) data set, the study uses all three waves (2008, 2010 and 2012) of the data set to estimate if whether or not a causal relationship exists between the probability of employment of these prime age individuals and the existence of an individual eligible for pension in the household. Apart from employing cross sectional methods, the study makes use of pooled OLS and an Individual Fixed Effect model to estimate different equation specifications which control for various factors. To facilitate better comparison with previous literature, certain regression specifications in both the cross section and Panel evaluation methods restricts the sample to households with at least three generations of individuals residing within the household unit. Consistent with previous research, cross sectional results show that holding other factors that affect the probability of employment constant, there exists a negative association between the existence of age eligible individuals in households with prime aged adults, and the probability that these adults are employed. Contrary to previous research however, the panel results uphold instead of contradicting the results from cross sectional analysis and hence suggest that there indeed exists a negative causal relationship between the existence of at least one pension eligible individual and the probability that prime age adults living with them are employed. The results also find that consistent with previous research, the males in the household are the major drivers of this effect. DA - 2014 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2014 T1 - Impact of South Africa's older persons' grant on the labour market outcome of prime age individuals TI - Impact of South Africa's older persons' grant on the labour market outcome of prime age individuals UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8514 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/8514
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationIdahosa LO. Impact of South Africa's older persons' grant on the labour market outcome of prime age individuals. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,School of Economics, 2014 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8514en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentSchool of Economicsen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Commerceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.titleImpact of South Africa's older persons' grant on the labour market outcome of prime age individualsen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
dc.type.qualificationnameMComen_ZA
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