Social assistance, gender and the aged in South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorBurns, Justine
dc.contributor.authorKeswell, Malcolm
dc.contributor.authorLeibbrandt, Murray
dc.date.accessioned2016-05-23T17:28:32Z
dc.date.available2016-05-23T17:28:32Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.date.updated2016-05-23T17:25:49Z
dc.description.abstractThis paper reviews the history of the noncontributory social pension in South Africa, as well as recent work on the distributional and poverty-alleviating effects of this program. The pension has a strong gender dimension, reaching three times as many women as men, and has an unambiguous impact on reducing household poverty, particularly among Black South African households. The existing literature also suggests that the pension reaches unintended beneficiaries within households and that strongly gender-differentiated patterns emerge both in the sharing of pension incomes by pensioners and in the behavioral responses of other household members to pension receipt.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationBurns, J., Keswell, M., & Leibbrandt, M. (2005). Social assistance, gender and the aged in South Africa. <i>Feminist Economics</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19800en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationBurns, Justine, Malcolm Keswell, and Murray Leibbrandt "Social assistance, gender and the aged in South Africa." <i>Feminist Economics</i> (2005) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19800en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationBurns, J., Keswell, M., & Leibbrandt, M. (2005). Social assistance, gender, and the aged in South Africa. Feminist Economics, 11(2), 103-115.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1354-5701en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Journal Article AU - Burns, Justine AU - Keswell, Malcolm AU - Leibbrandt, Murray AB - This paper reviews the history of the noncontributory social pension in South Africa, as well as recent work on the distributional and poverty-alleviating effects of this program. The pension has a strong gender dimension, reaching three times as many women as men, and has an unambiguous impact on reducing household poverty, particularly among Black South African households. The existing literature also suggests that the pension reaches unintended beneficiaries within households and that strongly gender-differentiated patterns emerge both in the sharing of pension incomes by pensioners and in the behavioral responses of other household members to pension receipt. DA - 2005 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - Feminist Economics LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2005 SM - 1354-5701 T1 - Social assistance, gender and the aged in South Africa TI - Social assistance, gender and the aged in South Africa UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19800 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/19800
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13545700500115944
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationBurns J, Keswell M, Leibbrandt M. Social assistance, gender and the aged in South Africa. Feminist Economics. 2005; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19800.en_ZA
dc.languageengen_ZA
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentCentre for Social Science Research(CSSR)en_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.sourceFeminist Economicsen_ZA
dc.source.urihttp://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfec20/current
dc.subject.otherSocial pensions
dc.subject.otherwelfare and poverty
dc.subject.otherincome pooling
dc.titleSocial assistance, gender and the aged in South Africaen_ZA
dc.typeJournal Articleen_ZA
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