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  • Unemployment and AIDS: The Social-Democratic Challenge for South Africa 
    Nattrass, Nicoli (CSSR and SALDRU, 2003-09)
    There are two major economic and social security challenges facing South Africa: addressing large-scale unemployment and the AIDS pandemic. As of 2003, an estimated 14% of all South Africans were HIV-positive, with over a ...
  • Unemployment and Household formation 
    Ebrahim, Amina; Woolard, Ingrid; Leibbrandt, Murray (2013-12)
    In comparison to other continents, Africa has received little scholarly attention with regard to household composition. Household composition is endogenous to a variety of welfare issues and little is understood about the ...
  • Unemployment in Bishop Lavis 
    Blau, A.; Thomas, J. (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 1982)
  • Unemployment, Employment and Labour-Force Participation in Khayelitsha/Mitchell's Plain 
    Nattrass, Nicoli (CSSR and SALDRU, 2002-10)
    This paper provides a rough guide to the labour force in Khayelitsha/Mitchell's Plain with a particular focus on unemployment. The task is partly conceptual (a discussion is provided on statistical norms for measuring ...
  • Unintended labour supply effects of cash transfer programmes: Evidence from South Africa's old age pension 
    Abel, Martin (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2013-11)
    Employing South Africa’s first nationally representative panel data set, I find that having old age pension recipients in the household adversely affects employment outcomes of prime-aged adults both by reducing the ...
  • Union selection effects - some inconsistent models 
    Wittenberg, Martin (2014-08)
    We show that some of the models which have been used in the South African literature to estimate union selection effects are logically inconsistent. This is a much more serious problem than a failure to identify the ...
  • Univariate Multiple Imputation for Coarse Employee Income Data 
    Daniels, Reza Che (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2012)
    This paper is concerned with conducting univariate multiple imputation for employee income data that is comprised of continuously distributed observations, observations that are bounded by consecutive income brackets, and ...
  • Unpacking grade repetition patterns in light of the progression policy in the Further Education and Training phase 
    Kika, Jesal; Kotze, Janeli (2019-01)
    Grade repetition is considered to be an important measure of education since it is both an outcome of a previous failure, and a predictor of subsequent failure (Anderson, Case, & Lam, 2001). Grade retention or the practice ...
  • Unpacking the potential implications of Covid-19 for gender inequality in the SA labour market 
    Mosomi, Jacqueline; Thornton, Amy; Branson, Nicola (2020-10)
    Previous economic downturns such as the recent 2008-2009 global financial crisis have tended to disproportionately affect male employment due to greater contractions in industries typically filled by men (e.g. manufacturing). ...
  • UPE and social inequality in Uganda: A step backward or a step in the right direction? 
    Zuze, Tia Linda; Leibbrandt, Murray (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2009-09)
    It is widely agreed that studying the relationship between school quality and academic achievement will benefit public investment in education. This is particularly true in Africa where, the 1990 World Conference on Education ...
  • Urban inequality and protests in Ecuador and Chile 
    Palacio Ludeña, María Gabriela; Díaz Pabón, Fabio Andrés (2020-04)
    Mobility is a multifaceted concept with social, economic and political implications. Spatial mobility, inequality and precarity intertwine. This article reflects on the role of mobility and precarity and the emergence of ...
  • Utilisation of Commonages for Sustainable Tourism Opportunities for the Poor in Namaqualand, South Africa 
    Govender-Van Wyk, S.; Wilson, D. (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2006-09)
    This paper investigates the impact of livestock farming on rural livelihoods on redistributed commonage land in Namaqualand post-1994. The paper contends that farming has been declining for decades, where its contribution ...
  • The Value of Reference Letters 
    Abel, Martin; Burger, Rulof; Piraino, Patrizio (2017-07)
    We show that reference letters from former employers alleviate information asymmetries about workers’ skills and improve both match quality and equity in the labor market. A resume audit study finds that using a reference ...
  • Vulnerability and the Middle Class in South Africa 
    Zizzamia, Rocco; Schotte, Simone; Leibbrandt, Murray; Ranchhod, Vimal (2016-08)
    Apartheid imposed a rigid racialised system of unequal resource distribution on South African society, resulting in one of the highest rates of inequality in the world. Since apartheid ended in 1994, this aggregate income ...
  • Wage Subsidies to Combat Unemployment and Poverty: Assessing South Africa's Options 
    Burns, Justine; Edwards, Lawrence; Pauw, Kalie (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2010-08)
    Wage or employment subsidies have been used in both developed and developing countries to raise employment levels. Various advisers to the South African government have endorsed wage subsidies as a policy measure to deal ...
  • Wages and wage elasticities for wine and table grapes in South Africa 
    Conradie, Beatrice (CSSR and SALDRU, 2004-12)
    A survey of 190 wine and table grape farmers in the Western Cape puts the average wage for farm labour at R928 per month in 2003 and R1123 per month in 2004. Output per worker has doubled since 1983. On farms with grape ...
  • Wages and wage inequality in South Africa 1994-2011: The evidence from household survey data 
    Wittenberg, Martin (2014-10)
    We analyse the long‐term trends in wages in South Africa, using the data from the October Household Surveys, Labour Force Surveys and Quarterly Labour Force Surveys. We show that outliers and missing data need to be taken ...
  • Washing with Hope: Evidence from a hand-washing pilot study among children in South Africa 
    Burns, Justine; Maughan-Brown, Brendan; Mouzinho, Âurea (2017-01)
    This paper reports the results of a randomised-control pilot study in which children in treatment households received a bi-monthly delivery of HOPE SOAP© , a colourful, translucent bar of soap with a toy embedded in its ...
  • Wealth in the National Income Dynamics Study Wave 2 
    Daniels, Reza Che; Finn, Arden; Musundwa, Sibongile (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2012-05)
    This document investigates the composition and distribution of individual and household wealth in the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) Wave 2 dataset (SALDRU, 2010-2011). The NIDS Wave 2 instrument marks the first ...
  • Weighing the value of asset proxies: The case of the body mass index in South Africa 
    Wittenberg, Martin (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2009-09)
    There are many household surveys, e.g. the Demographic and Health Surveys, that carry a wealth of useful information but in which information of interest to economists, chiefly or missing altogether. In many of these ...

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