Journal
DEVELOPMENT SOUTHERN AFRICA
Volume 33, Issue 5, Pages 719-739Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/0376835X.2016.1203762
Keywords
Antiretroviral treatment; labour markets; South Africa; I18; J21
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- Australian Agency for International Development (AUSAID)
- Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
- Development Cooperation Ireland (DCI)
- Department for International Development (DfID)
- Canadian International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
- Joint Economics, Aids and Poverty Programme (JEAPP)
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
- United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
- International Development Research Centre
- Medical Research Council
- National Research Foundation
- Research-Foundation Flanders
- UK Department for International Development DfID
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Given the rapid scale-up of antiretroviral treatment (ART), it is necessary to explore the impact of ART on labour force participation, employment and labour productivity. This article investigates labour market outcomes in a prospective cohort of public-sector ART clients in the Free State province of South Africa. Empirical results suggest that labour force participation increased markedly as the proportion of those too ill to work declined, becoming indistinguishable from participation rates in the general population. Unemployment rates, however, remain above those reported for the general population. ART and its health-related benefits therefore translate into increases in labour force participation, but not employment. Employment status at HIV diagnosis strongly predicts absorption in the labour force. Public-sector ART clients should be referred to vocational rehabilitation and occupational therapy programmes, and to welfare-to-work programmes, and the unskilled to adult education and training and further education and training programmes.
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