Browsing WORKING PAPERS by Subject "Labour force participation"

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Labour force withdrawal of the elderly in South Africa

Lam, David; Leibbrandt, Murray; Ranchhod, Vimal (CSSR and SALDRU, 2005-06)

This paper analyses labour market behaviour of the elderly in South Africa, focusing on the Black/African population group. The analysis uses data from the 2001 census and 1996 census, the Labour Force Surveys for September ...
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 ...
Throwing the book at the CSG

Eyal, Katherine; Woolard, Ingrid (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2011-02)

We estimate the effect of the child support grant on mothers' labour supply in South Africa. Identification is based on the use of specific samples, such as black mothers, aged 20 to 45, whose youngest child is aged within ...

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