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Title: Public Job-creation Programs: The Economic Benefits of Investing in Social Care Case Studies in South Africa and the United States
Citation Type: Working Paper
Publication Year: 2011
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Abstract: This paper demonstrates the strong impacts that public job creation in social care provisioning has on employment creation. Furthermore, it shows that mobilizing underutilized domestic labor resources and targeting them to bridge gaps in community-based services yield strong pro-poorincome growth patterns that extend throughout the economy. Social care provision also contributes to promoting gender equality, as womenespecially from low-income householdsconstitute a major workforce in the care sector. We present the ex-ante policy simulation results from two country case studies: South Africa and the United States. Both social accounting matrixbased multiplier analysis and propensity rankingbased microsimulation provide evidence of the pro-poor impacts of the social care expansion.
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Authors: Antonopoulos, Rania; Kim, Kijong
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Publication Number: 671
Institution: Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
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Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure
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