Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / Most poverty studies ignore the dimension of time and are merely concerned if an individual
meets certain money-metric or non-income welfare (e.g., access to services and asset
ownership) criteria. They fail to recognise the limited time (24hours per day) available to
complete tasks and the added difficulties they have even though there is an abundance of
money-metric and asset-related non-money-metric poverty studies. (Kim et al. 2014:1). For
example, individuals/households deemed poor by standard measures cannot afford market
alternatives to assist them with non-market work (like childcare). Therefore, they find
themselves spending all their time in market and non-market work without taking time for
rest and improving themselves.
Recognising non-market work and the allocation of time allows for a greater understanding
into the role of women and Africans whose non-market work are unrecognised by standard
economic measures such as GDP (Ferrant 2014:1). There are also only a few in-depth studies
on time poverty, but they fail to utilise the most current data. Therefore, this study seeks to
provide insights into how household production impacts on South African welfare. It
explores the income, time poor and the extent of time allocation differences for various
personal characteristics. It estimates the likelihood of time poverty based on an individual’s
time schedule and the factors which most likely results in time poverty.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uwc/oai:etd.uwc.ac.za:11394/8681 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Nackerdien, Moegammad Faeez |
| Contributors | Yu, Derek |
| Publisher | University of the Western Cape |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | University of the Western Cape |
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