dc.contributor.author | Blaauw, Phillip (Derick) | |
dc.contributor.author | Botha, Ilse | |
dc.contributor.author | Schenck, Catherina (Rinie) | |
dc.contributor.author | Schoeman, Christie | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-01-23T20:16:25Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-01-23T20:16:25Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Blaauw, P.F., et al. (2013). Happy in the informal economy? A case study of well-being among day labourers in South Africa. International Business and Economics Research Journal. 12 (6): 1 - 20 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1535-0754 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10566/965 | |
dc.description.abstract | Past research provided evidence of the negative effect that individual unemployment can have on subjective well-being. The persistent high levels of unemployment and poverty in South Africa have been well documented. Many people are forced into the informal economy, where they engage in a variety of survivalist activities such as day labouring. As o previous study has been conducted on the well-being of day labourers, the aim of this paper is to investigate the determinants of the well-being of South African day labourers. Objective and subjective functions are compared to determine the role of income and other variables in the well-being of day labourers. The determinants are categorised according to economic, comparison and attitudinal variables. The objective function uses income and the subjective function uses the binary measure of experiencing a good week in terms of wages as dependent variables. The results showed that attitudinal variables are important determinants for the subjective measure of well-being. The economic variables were important in both functions. The findings of this paper confirm other research findings showing that personal income is important for well-being in a poor community. The difference between these functions indicates that the subjective and objective measures of well-being both capture valuable characteristics of subjective well-being (SWB) in a poor community. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Clute Institute | en_US |
dc.subject | Day labouring | en_US |
dc.subject | Well-being | en_US |
dc.subject | Happiness | en_US |
dc.subject | Informal economy | en_US |
dc.title | Happy in the informal economy? A case study of well-being among day labourers in South Africa | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.privacy.showsubmitter | false | |
dc.status.ispeerreviewed | true | |
dc.description.accreditation | International Bibliography of Social Sciences | en_US |