Full Text Available
Note: Clicking the button above will open the full text document at the original institutional repository in a new window.
Strategies of the unemployed: does moving allow the unemployed to get ahead?
Includes bibliographical references.
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
School of Economics
2014
|
| Tags: |
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| _version_ | 1867613230527938560 |
|---|---|
| access_status_str | Open Access |
| author | Ebrahim, Amina |
| author2 | Leibbrandt, Murray |
| author_browse | Ebrahim, Amina Leibbrandt, Murray |
| author_facet | Leibbrandt, Murray Ebrahim, Amina |
| author_sort | Ebrahim, Amina |
| collection | Thesis |
| description | Includes bibliographical references. |
| format | Thesis |
| id | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/8516 |
| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
| language | eng |
| last_indexed | 2026-06-10T12:32:50.328Z |
| license_str | Not specified — see source repository |
| provenance_str_mv | Harvested via OAI-PMH from UCTD — University of Cape Town Open Access Repository |
| publishDate | 2014 |
| publishDateRange | 2014 |
| publishDateSort | 2014 |
| publisher | School of Economics |
| publisherStr | School of Economics |
| record_format | dspace |
| source_str | UCTD — University of Cape Town Open Access Repository |
| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/8516 Strategies of the unemployed: does moving allow the unemployed to get ahead? Ebrahim, Amina Leibbrandt, Murray Woolard, Ingrid Includes bibliographical references. This paper examines the survival strategies of the unemployed using the balanced panel sample of the first three waves of the National Income Dynamics Study (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit [SALDRU], 2013c). We find that in response to unemployment and almost no unemployment insurance, unemployed individuals look to parents, relatives and friends for economic support. In many cases the unemployed delay setting up their own households while others may move back to family households when faced with persistent unemployment. We use a probit model to show that the unemployed who move in a successive wave are more likely to be employed. The effect of moving on employment status remains significant and positive when we take into account household and individual characteristics. Moving does allow the unemployed to get ahead. 2014-10-17T10:08:22Z 2014-10-17T10:08:22Z 2014 Master Thesis Masters MCom http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8516 eng application/pdf School of Economics Faculty of Commerce University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Ebrahim, Amina Strategies of the unemployed: does moving allow the unemployed to get ahead? |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Strategies of the unemployed: does moving allow the unemployed to get ahead? |
| title_full | Strategies of the unemployed: does moving allow the unemployed to get ahead? |
| title_fullStr | Strategies of the unemployed: does moving allow the unemployed to get ahead? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Strategies of the unemployed: does moving allow the unemployed to get ahead? |
| title_short | Strategies of the unemployed: does moving allow the unemployed to get ahead? |
| title_sort | strategies of the unemployed does moving allow the unemployed to get ahead |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8516 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT ebrahimamina strategiesoftheunemployeddoesmovingallowtheunemployedtogetahead |