The Predictors of Youth Employment in Rural South Africa: The Poverty Alleviation Pilot Study

Public Deposited
Analytics

Downloadable Content

Download PDF
Request Version for Screen Reader
Last Modified
  • November 4, 2019
Creator
  • Wilkinson, Andra
    • Affiliation: Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Maternal and Child Health
Abstract
  • Objectives: Explore predictors of employment among 18-24 year olds in Mpumalanga, South Africa to inform intervention development. Method: The Poverty Alleviation Pilot collected quantitative data from 18-24 year olds randomly sampled from the Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance site in rural South Africa. Logistic regression models were estimated to identify demographic, qualification, and psychosocial predictors of youth employment. Results: Youth with working skills were significantly more likely to report employment and youth reporting greater life dissatisfaction also had slightly greater odds of employment. Having training was also significantly positively associated with employment, but for males only. Conclusions: To decrease youth unemployment, rural youth need access to training and entrepreneurship development programs and employers need incentives to hire youth.
Date of publication
DOI
Resource type
Rights statement
  • In Copyright
Note
  • Paper type: Original research
Advisor
  • Halpern, Carolyn
Degree
  • Master of Public Health
Degree granting institution
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Graduation year
  • 2013
Language
Deposit record
  • 0fd8e004-99c2-44ae-a30d-434a6f9a555b

Relations

Parents:

This work has no parents.

Items

Thumbnail Title Date Uploaded Visibility Actions
file details Wilkinson_MastersPaper_Final.pdf 2019-11-04 Public Download