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| Title: | | From unpaid to paid care work: the macroeconomic implications of HIV and AIDS on women's time-tax burdens  |
| Authors: | | Antonopoulos, Rania Toay, Taun N. |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Working papers // The Levy Economics Institute 570 |
| 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 |
| Appears in Collections: | | Working Papers, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
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