Browsing 2000 - 2009 by Author "Lam, David"

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  • Education and youth unemployment in South Africa 
    Lam, David; Leibbrandt, Murray; Mlatsheni, Cecil (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2008-09)
    The problem of high youth unemployment is a global phenomenon. According to an International Labour Office study in 2004, youth (15-24) make up nearly half (47%) of the world"s unemployed, 88 million out of 186 million, ...
  • The impact of AIDS on intergenerational support in South Africa: Evidence from the Cape Area Panel Study 
    Ardington, Cally; Case, Anne; Islam, Mahnaz; Lam, David; Leibbrandt, Murray; Menendez, Alicia; Olgiati, Anna (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2009-02)
    We use panel data collected in metropolitan Cape Town to document the role played by aging parents in caring for the children of children who die. In addition, we quantify the probabilities that older adults and the older ...
  • Schooling as a lottery: Racial differences in school advancement in urban South Africa 
    Lam, David; Ardington, Cally; Leibbrandt, Murray (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2007-11)
    This paper develops a stochastic model of grade repetition to analyze the large racial differences in progress through secondary school in South Africa. The model predicts that a larger stochastic component in the link ...

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