Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/31539 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 570
Publisher: 
Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Abstract: 
This paper considers public employment guarantee programs in the context of South Africa as a means to address the nexus of poverty, unemployment, and unpaid work burdensall factors exacerbated by HIV/AIDS. It further discusses the need for genderinformed public job creation in areas that mitigate the time-tax” burdens of women, and examines a South African initiative to address social sector service delivery deficits within the government's Expanded Public Works Programme. The authors highlight the need for well-designed employment guarantee programsspecifically, programs centered on community and home-based careas a potential way to help offset the destabilizing effects of HIV/AIDS and endemic poverty. The paper concludes with results from macroeconomic simulations of such a program, using a social accounting matrix framework, and sets out implications for both participants and policymakers.
Subjects: 
HIV/AIDS
gender
care work
unpaid work
Community and Homebased Care (CHBC)
South Africa
Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP)
Social Accounting Matrix (SAM)
employment guarantee
JEL: 
B54
E24
H51
I30
J16
J22
O55
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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