High fertility and declining mortality rates have led to a very young population in most Sub-
Saharan African countries. The region s labor force is expected to increase by 11 million …

Seekings and Nattrass explain why poverty persisted in South Africa after the transition to
democracy in 1994. The book examines how public policies both mitigated and reproduced …

Rising inequality in the developed world over the last 40 years has been accompanied by
declining trade union power. Unions have been found to raise the wages of their members …

This paper investigates the evolution of the gender wage gap in South Africa, using the 1993-
2015 Post-Apartheid Labour Market Series data set. The changes in the gap are …

This paper provides a historical overview of the South African trade union movement,
followed by a brief discussion of the labour market legislation and institutions formed since …

Consistent with Convention 87 of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Section 79 of
the Labour Act, 2003 (Act 651) empowers every employee in an organization to either form …

This paper studies individual labour market mobility and its determinants in South Africa
since 2008 using two large, nationally representative longitudinal datasets: a set of 2-year …

One Achilles' heel of post-Apartheid South Africa is the growing intra-racial income
inequality, particularly among Africans. This paper examines the role of labour unions in …

ABSTRACT Unemployment in South Africa has multiple causes. This article uses a district
pseudo-panel to estimate the elasticity of labour demand, labour supply and unemployment …

Labor unions, chiefly through collective organizing and bargaining, almost universally
increase the wages of their members, even after controlling for individual, job, firm, and other …