LABOUR MIGRATION AND HOUSEHOLD SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS IN AGINCOURT SUB-DISTRICT OF BUSHBUCKRIDGE, MPUMALANGA, SOUTH AFRICA.
| dc.contributor.author | Ngwarai, Ngonidzashe | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-02-15T07:01:00Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-02-15T07:01:00Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.description | M.M. Thesis | en_ZA |
| dc.description.abstract | ABSTRACT. In 1986 South Africa saw the abolishment of repressive labour migration laws which had formed a keystone of the apartheid rule. The advent of majority rule in 1994 ushered in a free society where citizens could freely migrate. Both male and female began to migrate in search of greener pastures and survival. These male and female labour migrants left behind their rural homes carrying the hopes of their sending households for a better life. The purpose of this exploratory study was to establish the effects of labour migration on sending households’ socio-economic status. The Harris and Todaro (1970) model was used as the analysis framework of the 13,231 households within the Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance Site. One of the main findings of the research was that households with a household head who is a labour migrant have better socio-economic status compared to those without. It was also established that females have now become more involved in labour migration but wage gaps tend to affect their households’ socio-economic status compared to their male counterparts. | en_ZA |
| dc.description.librarian | PD2018 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10539/23953 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Migrant labor, Households -- Economic aspects -- South Africa -- Mpumalanga. | en_ZA |
| dc.title | LABOUR MIGRATION AND HOUSEHOLD SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS IN AGINCOURT SUB-DISTRICT OF BUSHBUCKRIDGE, MPUMALANGA, SOUTH AFRICA. | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_ZA |