| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w16901 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 16901 |
| HIV Status and Labor Market Participation in South Africa | |
| James A. Levinsohn; Zoë McLaren; Olive Shisana; Khangelani Zuma | |
| 发表日期 | 2011-03-24 |
| 出版年 | 2011 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Because individuals with HIV are more likely to fall into poverty, and the poor may be at higher risk of contracting HIV, simple estimates of the effect of HIV status on economic outcomes will tend to be biased. In this paper, we use two econometric methods based on the propensity score to estimate the causal effect of HIV status on employment outcomes in South Africa. We rely on rich data on sexual behavior and knowledge of HIV from a large national household-based survey, which included HIV testing, to control for systematic differences between HIV-positive and HIV-negative individuals. This paper provides the first nationally representative estimates of the impact of HIV status on labor market outcomes for southern Africa. We find that being HIV-positive is associated with a 6 to 7 percentage point increase in the likelihood of being unemployed. South Africans with less than a high school education are 10 to 11 percentage points more likely to be unemployed if they are HIV-positive. Despite high unemployment rates, being HIV-positive confers a disadvantage and reinforces existing inequalities in South Africa. |
| 主题 | Development and Growth ; Development |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w16901 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/574576 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | James A. Levinsohn,Zoë McLaren,Olive Shisana,et al. HIV Status and Labor Market Participation in South Africa. 2011. |
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