Identfying Pure-Income Effects in an Empirical Model of Labour Supply: the case of the South African Social Pension

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dc.contributor.author Eyal, Katherine
dc.contributor.author Keswell, Malcolm
dc.date.accessioned 2017-03-30T10:17:30Z
dc.date.available 2017-03-30T10:17:30Z
dc.date.issued 2008-01
dc.identifier.citation Eyal K & Keswell M (2008) Identfying Pure-Income Effects in an Empirical Model of Labour Supply: the case of the South African Social Pension. A Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit Working Paper Number 19. Cape Town: SALDRU, University of Cape Town
dc.identifier.isbn 978-0-9814031-9-9
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/11090/863
dc.description.abstract This paper investigates the income effects of the South African Social Pension. Using data from three waves of the the Labour Force Survey, we find that there appears to be a significant negative association between labour supply and pension receipt. However, we find little evidence to support the view that these results can be interpreted as pure income effects. Rather, the evidence suggests that the association is driven by age-cohort effects, which we argue reflects the burden of living with the elderly. We also report preliminary evidence which is suggestive of endogenous household formation in response to eligibility for the social pension. en_US
dc.description.sponsorship Katherine Eyal is a Doctoral Candidate, Department of Economics, Hebrew University and Malcolm Keswell is an Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Stellenbosch University and Honorary Research Associate, SALDRU, School of Economics, University of Cape Town. We thank Justine Burns, David Lam, Murray Leibbrandt and Martin Wittenberg for useful comments and discussions. Support for this research was provided by the U.S. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (Grant R01HD045581). Comments can be sent to keswell@cournot.sun.ac.za en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries SALDRU Working Papers;19
dc.subject public transfers, en_US
dc.subject pensions, en_US
dc.subject labour supply en_US
dc.title Identfying Pure-Income Effects in an Empirical Model of Labour Supply: the case of the South African Social Pension en_US
dc.type Working Paper en_US


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