- Title
- The child support grant on mother’s labour market participation: a case of New Brighton and Kwazakhele townships
- Creator
- Maqubela, Vuyokazi
- Subject
- Child support -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth
- Subject
- Income maintenance programs -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth Women in development -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth Blacks -- Women -- Employment -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth
- Date Issued
- 2018
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MPA
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/22640
- Identifier
- vital:30042
- Description
- The study examined the impact of non-labour income, in the form of the Child Support Grant, on a mother's labour market participation. The key question aimed to determine whether the Child Support Grant had a positive or negative impact on grant beneficiaries in accessing paid work and income. The primary focus of this study is on the impact that cash transfers have on recipients’ labour market participation. The focus is on these women, mainly to identify the causal effect of receiving a child support grant on their labour market participation. Location of focus was the New Brighton and Kwa Zakhele townships, since they have the highest number of social grant beneficiaries in Nelson Mandela Metro Municipality. An analysis of 101 questionnaires reveals that most of the grant recipients are either unemployed or underemployed. These beneficiaries do understand that the grant is meant to provide for the needs of the child concerned; however, because of their socioeconomic circumstances, the beneficiaries utilize the grant for other household purposes. Many of the respondents are actively job seeking but do not utilize the money for job seeking purposes; they mostly utilize it for household expenditure like groceries and electricity. The descriptive method was used to analyze the data and to find responses to the research questions and objectives. The results showed that the determinants of labour market participation by this group are multiple: for example, behavioral, loss of hope of ever finding a job, skills shortage or lack of work experience, lack of qualifications, and so on. Secondly, lack of government support for those who are keen to start self-generating projects leads to further despondency among those trying to find ways and means of generating income.
- Format
- v, 86 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Arts
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
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