Labor supply responses to large social transfers: Longitudinal evidence from South Africa.

Labour supply responses to large social transfers : Longitudinal evidence from South Africa

Nber Working Paper Series Labor Supply Responses to Large Social Transfers: Longitudinal Evidence from South Africa

The South African old-age social pension has been much studied by both researchers and policy makers, in part for the larger lessons that might be learned about behavioral responses to cash transfers in developing countries. In this paper, we quantify the labor supply responses of prime-aged individuals to changes in the presence of old-age pensioners in their households, using longitudinal dat...

Social protection and labor market outcomes in South Africa: Employment and Youth Transitions to the Marketplace

South Africa has put in place an extensive system of social grants over the post-apartheid years. It is well known that these grants have important direct impacts on poverty alleviation. However, not much is known about the interactions between these social grants and successful integration of individuals into the labor market. On the basis of little evidence, there is loud speculation in polic...

Household Responses to Severe Health Shocks and the Design of Social Insurance

This paper studies how households respond to severe health sho ks and the insuran e role of spousal labor supply. In the empiri al part of the paper, we provide new eviden e on individuals' labor supply responses to spousal health and mortality sho ks. Analyzing administrative data on over 500,000 Danish households in whi h a spouse dies, we nd that survivors immediately in rease their labor su...

Transition Models for Analyzing Longitudinal Data with Bivariate Mixed Ordinal and Nominal Responses

In many longitudinal studies, nominal and ordinal mixed bivariate responses are measured. In these studies, the aim is to investigate the effects of explanatory variables on these time-related responses. A regression analysis for these types of data must allow for the correlation among responses during the time. To analyze such ordinal-nominal responses, using a proposed weighting approach, an ...