Showing 1 - 10 of 42
We estimate the risk attitudes of a large sample of individuals from various fishing communities along the west coast of South Africa. Female fishers and rights holders are found to be more risk averse than their male counterparts, while rights holders are found to be less risk averse relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010613952
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012280316
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005451691
<title>Abstract</title> We report the results from a series of trust games designed to distinguish racial discrimination from racial nepotism, played with a sample of high school students in Cape Town, South Africa. In contrast to the original work in this regard by Fershtman <italic>et al</italic>. (2005), we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010974742
Social networks are increasingly being recognized as having an important influence on labour market outcomes, since they facilitate the exchange of job related information. Access to information about job opportunities as well as perceptions about the buoyancy of the labour market depend...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008522684
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005205669
This paper examines the impact of racial identity on behavior in trust games played by public high school students in South Africa. There is a systematic pattern of distrust towards Black partners, even by Black proposers, partially attributable to mistaken expectations. Non-Black proposers are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010573063
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010642229
Wage subsidies have been used in both developed and developing countries to raise employment. After a decade of deliberation, the South African Government recently announced the introduction of a wage subsidy scheme. Given the intrinsic link between unemployment and poverty in South Africa, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010710836
We present two experiments designed to investigate whether individuals' notions of distributive justice are associated with their relative (within-society) economic status. Each participant played a specially designed four-person dictator game under one of two treatments, under one initial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009348765