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  • Education and inequality: The South African case 
    Branson, Nicola; Garlick, Julia; Lam, David; Leibbrandt, Murray (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2012)
    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 inequality. In order to understand one of ...
  • Employment status, security, and the management of risk: a study of workers in Kwamsane, KwaZulu-Natal 
    Lund, Francis; Ardington, Cally (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2006-08)
    The study investigates the concept of security in relationship to work and employment. Work has conventionally been seen as the pathway to economic security; however, the growth in the numbers of people in the informal ...
  • How do the non-searching unemployed feel about their situation? On the definition of unemployment. 
    Lloyd, Neil; Leibbrandt, Murray (Econ3x3.org, 2013-06)
    New evidence suggests that non-searching unemployed people are significantly less satisfied with their lives than people who are not economically active. Indeed, the non-searching unemployed have hit rock bottom. Assuming ...
  • Job creation and destruction in South Africa 
    Kerr, Andrew; Wittenberg, Martin; Arrow, Jairo (South African Journal of Economics, 2014)
    Analysts of the South African labour market have mainly used household surveys to analyse the labour market. It has been more difficult to explore the labour demand of firms, as a result of limited data availability. We ...
  • Job creation and destruction in South Africa 
    Kerr, Andrew; Wittenberg, Martin; Arrow, Jairo (2013-01)
    Analysts of the South African labour market have predominantly used household surveys to analyse the labour market. It has been more di fficult to explore labour demand from the firm side, as a result of limited data from ...
  • Labour market: Analysis of the NIDS wave 1 and 2 datasets 
    Cichello, Paul; Leibbrandt, Murray; Woolard, Ingrid (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2012)
    This paper provides a brief summary of key labour market outcomes in Wave 2 of NIDS and also examines labour market transitions that occurred between Wave 1 and Wave 2. This corresponds approximately to changes between ...
  • The matric certificate is still valuable in the labour market 
    Hofmeyr, Clare; Branson, Nicola; Leibbrandt, Murray; Ardington, Cally; Lam, David (Econ3x3.org, 2013-10)
    Increasing levels of youth unemployment and learners’ poor performance at school have led to claims that the matric certificate no longer has much value in the labour market. However, the evidence does not support this ...
  • New evidence on subjective wellbeing and the definition of unemployment in South Africa 
    Lloyd, Neil; Leibbrandt, Murray (2013-05)
    Access to new nationally-representative, individual-level panel data from South Africa has allowed for the revalidation of Kingdon and Knight’s (2006) discussion on the definition of unemployment. This paper investigates ...
  • The South African labour market 1995-2004: A cohort analysis 
    Branson, Nicola (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2006-10)
    This paper constructs a ‘synthetic panel’ from successive years of the October Household Surveys and Labour Force Surveys, and shows that new insights into the South African labour market are revealed when groups of ...
  • The state of the labour market in South Africa after the first decade of democracy 
    Woolard, Ingrid; Burger, Rulof (CSSR and SALDRU, 2005-10)
    While the political transition to democratic rule in South Africa was smooth and rapid, the economic transition has been slow and difficult. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the labour market. Job creation has not ...
  • Winners and losers: South African labour market dynamics between 2008 and 2010 
    Cichello, Paul; Leibbrandt, Murray; Woolard, Ingrid (Development Southern Africa, 2014)
    There is little empirical work in South Africa using panel data to describe employment and earnings dynamics. This paper contributes by describing labour-market transitions in South Africa between 2008 and 2010 for individuals ...
  • Youth unemployment and social protection 
    Ardington, Cally; Case, Anne; Menendez, Alicia; Bärnighausen, Till; Lam, David; Leibbrandt, Murray (2014-06-19)
    Globally and locally, youth unemployment is on the rise, leading the ILO to warn of a “‘scarred’generation of young people” who face low rates of employment and high rates of inactivity (ILO 2013). Policymakers and researchers ...

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