Browsing WORKING PAPERS by Subject "Labour market"

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Browsing WORKING PAPERS by Subject "Labour market"

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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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

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