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Title: Ex-ante Evaluation of Public Job- Creation Programs: the economic benefits of shifting social care from unpaid to paid work

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Publication Year: 2011

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Abstract: This paper demonstrates that shifting unpaid care work to the paid(social) care provisioning domain entails large employment opportunities. Furthermore, when underemploymentis rampant, investing in mobilizing underutilized domesticlabor resources that bridge gaps of community-- based services, yields strong pro-poor income growth patterns. Social care provision also contributes to promoting gender equality, as women-especially from low income households-constitute a major workforce in the care sector. We present ex-ante policy simulation results from two case studies of South Africa and the United States. Both social accounting matrix-based multiplier analysis and propensity ranking-based microsimualtion provide evidence of the pro-poor impacts of the social care expansion.

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Authors: Kim, Kijong; Antonopoulos, Rania

Publisher: Levy Economics Institute

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