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Browsing 2000 - 2009 by Issue Date
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(Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2006-06)
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(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 ...
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(Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2006-09)
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(Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2006-09)Community-based water supply projects in rural South Africa have frequently proved unsustainable, with many communities unable to raise sufficient funds to meet operation and maintenance costs. A key obstacle to cost ...
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(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 ...
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(Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2006-10)Cash transfer programs are used as new policies to increase nutrition and human capital of children from poor families. We evaluate South Africa's unconditional Child Support Grant (CSG) in which cash grants are made to ...
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(Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2006-10)Social networks are increasingly being recognised as having an important influence on labour market outcomes, since they facilitate the exchange of job related information. Access to information about job opportunities as ...
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(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 ...
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(Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2007-11)South Africa has seen a dramatic decrease in household size over the last decade. In Table 1 we show that over the eight-and-a-half years from October 1995 to March 2004 the average household size has decreased by 20% or ...
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(Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2007-11)This paper develops a stochastic model of grade repetition to analyze the large racial differences in progress through secondary school in South Africa. The model predicts that a larger stochastic component in the link ...
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Flogging a dead horse: Attempts by van der Berg et al to measure changes in poverty and inequality (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2007-12)This paper seeks an explanation for the large differences in the extent and severity of poverty published respectively in van der Berg et al (2005: 2007a) and Meth (2006b). Headcounts in 2004 suggested by van der Berg et ...
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Labour market transitions in South Africa: What can we learn from matched Labour Force Survey data? (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2007-12)We generate a longitudinal dataset using the rotating panel component of the nationally representative Labour Force Surveys from 2001 to 2003. We then estimate the transition probabilities across different labour market ...
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(Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2007-12)In many parts of the developing world, rural areas exhibit high rates of unemployment and underemployment. Understanding what prevents people living in rural areas from migrating to find better jobs is central to the ...
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(Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2007-12)Although primary school enrollment is gradually on the increase in the developing world, differences in mathematics achievement between girls and boys persist. A complex combination of factors that is related to issues of ...
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(Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2007-12)This paper discusses the theoretical background to handling missing data in a multivariate context. Earlier methods for dealing with item non-response are reviewed, followed by an examination of some of the more modern ...
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(Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2007-12)The consequences of misguided economic and social policies in the previous dispensation remain evident in the structure of poverty in South Africa. Enforced migration control, job reservation for whites and inadequate ...
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(Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2007-12)This paper investigates the effects of long bouts of unemployment on the employment probabilities of the unemployed, and the factors affecting unemployment duration. This is achieved through the estimation of the hazard ...
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(2008-01)This paper investigates the income effects of the South African Social Pension. Using data from three waves of the the Labour Force Survey, we find that there appears to be a significant negative association between labour ...
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(Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2008-06)This paper examines the impact of South Africas state old age pension on the labour supply of working age members of pension-receiving households. A range of identification strategies are employed in an attempt to make ...
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(Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2008-06)Using 11 nationally representative surveys conducted between 1993 and 2005 this paper assesses the extent to which the vulnerability of orphans to poorer educational outcomes has changed over time as the AIDS crisis deepens ...
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