Labor supply responses to large social transfers: Longitudinal evidence from South Africa

C Ardington, A Case, V Hosegood - American economic journal …, 2009 - aeaweb.org
We quantify the labor supply responses of prime-aged adults to the presence of pensioners
in their households, using longitudinal data collected in South Africa. We compare …

Education and Inequality: The South African Case

N Branson, J Garlick, D Lam, M Leibbrandt - 2012 - opensaldru.uct.ac.za
Following the international literature, income inequality decompositions on data from
contemporary South Africa show that the labour market is the key driver of overall household …

Determinants of Grade 12 Pass Rates in the Post-Apartheid South African Schooling System

H Bhorat, M Oosthuizen - Journal of African economies, 2009 - academic.oup.com
This paper utilises an educational production function approach on post-apartheid data that
include both schooling and community-level information, in order to empirically estimate the …

Unemployment and reservation wages in working‐class Cape Town

N Nattrass, R Walker - South African journal of economics, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Are the unemployed in South Africa 'pricing themselves out of the labour market;'? This
paper explores this proposition through an analysis of reservation wages in Cape Town's …

Core labor standards and development: Impact on long-term income

R Bazillier - World Development, 2008 - Elsevier
The paper focuses on the impact of international core labor standards on long-term per
capita income. In order to do that, it is necessary to build a new synthetic indicator of labor …

[图书][B] Racial inequality and affirmative action in Malaysia and South Africa

HA Lee - 2010 - search.proquest.com
This dissertation examines racial inequality and affirmative action in Malaysia and South
Africa, two countries with a politically dominant but economically disadvantaged majority …

“These aren't the jobs we want”: youth unemployment and anti-work politics in Khayelitsha, Cape Town

C Webb - Social Dynamics, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Research on youth unemployment in South Africa has largely been dominated by
quantitative accounts that highlight skills' mismatches, educational levels and industrial …

Dealing with earnings bracket responses in household surveys–how sharp are midpoint imputations?

D Von Fintel - South African Journal of Economics, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Earnings functions form the basis of numerous labour market analyses. Non‐response
(particularly among higher earners) may, however, lead to the exclusion of a significant …

The gender wage gap in the post-apartheid South African labour market

H Bhorat, S Goga - University of Cape Town Development Policy …, 2012 - papers.ssrn.com
We estimate the gender wage gap for Africans in post-apartheid South Africa over the 2001
to 2007 period. Separate male and female earnings equations yields no significant decline …

[PDF][PDF] Earnings bracket obstacles in household surveys–How sharp are the tools in the shed?

D Von Fintel - 2006 - resep.sun.ac.za
Earnings functions form the basis of numerous labour market analyses. Nonresponse
(particularly among higher earners) may, however, lead to the exclusion of a significant …