Browsing Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences by Author "Yu, Derek"
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Investigating the significance of the 2008 Matric curriculum on first-year Economics performance
Dlomo, Z.; Jansen, A.; Moses, M.; Yu, Derek (UNISA Press, 2011)The academic success of first-year Economics students has been the focus of many South African studies in Economic Education. Many used the last school examination (Matric) results as a proxy for students’ academic ... -
Investigating volunteer activities in South Africa
Fondling, Jaydro; Murozvi, Simbarashe; Yu, Derek; Mtshali, Nothando (Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)This is the first South African study that analysed all three availablewaves of Statistics South Africa’s Volunteer Activities Survey data,which was linked to the Quarterly Labour Force Survey in the third quarter of the ... -
Investigation of the youth informal entrepreneurship landscape in South Africa
Murozvi, Simbarashe; Adams, Charles; Yu, Derek (Unisa Press, 2022)The South African economy is characterised by high and continuously rising youth unemployment levels and rates. While countervailing interventions have been attempted in the formal sector, support for youth employment and ... -
Multidimensional poverty in South Africa in 2001–16
Fransman, Tina; Yu, Derek (Taylor & Francis, 2018)This study uses the Census 2001 and 2011 as well as Community Survey 2007 and 2016 data to derive a multidimensional poverty index in South Africa for each year, before assessing the changes in non-money-metric, ... -
A panel data analysis of the formal-informal sector labour market linkages in South Africa
Nackerdien, Faeez; Yu, Derek (Routledge, 2019)This study explores the labour market linkages between the informal and formal sectors, using the first four waves of the National Income Dynamics Study data. The main focus is on three groups of employed: worked in the ... -
Poverty and inequality trends in South Africa using different survey data
Yu, Derek (Stellenbosch University, 2010)There is an abundance of literature adopting the monetary approach (i.e., using per capita income or expenditure variables) to derive poverty and inequality trends for South Africa since the transition. The most commonly ... -
Reflecting on racial discrimination in the post-apartheid South African labour market
Yu, Derek; Naidoo, Karmen; Stanwix, Ben (University of Cape Town, 2014)During the 20th century, South Africa’s economy became increasingly ordered and controlled along racial lines. Since the official demise of apartheid in 1994, the State has implemented various policies aimed at redress. In ... -
Reflecting on Racial Discrimination in the Post-Apartheid South African Labour Market
Naidoo, Karmen; Stanwix, Ben; Yu, Derek (University if Cape Town, 2004-12)During the 20th century, South Africa’s economy became increasingly ordered and controlled along racial lines. Since the official demise of apartheid in 1994, the State has implemented various policies aimed at redress. In ... -
Revisiting the COVID-19 vulnerability index in South Africa
Yu, Derek (Routledge, 2021)This study uses the Census 2011 and Community Survey 2016 data, adopts the Alkire-Foster multidimensional poverty index (MPI) approach and addresses numerous shortcomings of the original Statistics South Africa method ... -
Revisiting unemployment levels and trends in South Africa since the transition
Yu, Derek (Routledge Taylor Francis Group, 2013)Many recent studies compared the 1995 October Household Survey (OHS) with the latest available Labour Force Survey (LFS) to derive the unemployment ‘trends’ in South Africa since the transition, but this approach only ... -
A series of national accounts-consistent estimates of poverty and inequality in South Africa
Yu, Derek; van der Berg, Servaas; Burger, Ronelle (Stellenbosch University, 2007)This paper makes a unique contribution to the South African literature in combining data from an alternative source of household survey data – the All Media and Product Survey (AMPS) – with national accounts income trends ... -
The South African informal sector (1997 – 2006)
Yu, Derek; Essop, Hassan (Stellenbosch University, 2008)According to the 2006 September Labour Force Survey, approximately 22% of the employed (excluding domestic workers and agricultural employment) are engaged in informal sector activities as their main work to sustain ... -
The targeting of zero-rated basic foodstuffs under value-added tax (VAT) in South Africa
Jansen, A.; Stoltz, E.; Yu, Derek (Bureau for Economic Research (BER), 2013)Since the inception of VAT in South Africa, various studies have been conducted to investigate the distributional impact of the tax as well as the effectiveness of zero-rating as tool to alleviate the burden on poor ... -
Trade unions in an emerging economy :The case of South Africa
Yu, Derek; Bhorat, Haroon; Naidoo, Karmen (United Nations University, 2014)This paper provides a historical overview of the South African trade union movement, followed by a brief discussion of the labour market legislation and institutions formed since 1994. Thereafter, a detailed evaluation ... -
Trends in poverty and inequality since the political transition
Yu, Derek; Louw, Megan; Burger, Rulof (Elsevier, 2006)Using a constructed data series and another data series based on the All Media and Products surveys (AMPS), this paper explores trends in poverty and income distribution over the post-transition period. To steer clear of ... -
Trends on the hours worked of the employed, 1997 – 2011
Yu, Derek; Bosch, Adel (ECONOMIC RESEARCH SOUTHERN AFRICA, 2012)This paper analyses trends in hours worked from South African household survey data for the period 1997 — 2011. The purpose of the paper is fourfold. First, the paper provides an overview on the trends in hours worked of ... -
Wage trends in post-apartheid South Africa: Constructing an earnings series from household survey data
Yu, Derek; Burger, Rulof (University of Cape Town, 2007)This paper examines South African wage earnings trends using all the available post-1994 household survey datasets. This allows us to identify and address the sources of data inconsistencies across surveys in order to ... -
Wage trends in post-apartheid South Africa: Constructing an earnings series from household survey data
Yu, Derek; Burger, Rulof (South African Reserve Bank, 2006)Recent research on South African labour-market trends has suggested that workers have, on average, experienced a substantial decrease in their real wage earnings in the post-apartheid era. This paper will show that ... -
What explains the academic success of second-year economics students? An exploratory analysis
Yu, Derek; Horn, Pietie; Jansen, Ada (Stellenbosch University, 2008)The factors influencing academic success of first-year Economics students have received much attention from researchers. Very little attention, however, has been given to the determinants of success of senior Economics ... -
Youth unemployment in South Africa revisited
Yu, Derek (Taylor Francis, 2013)One of the most pressing socio-economic problems of the South African economy is high youth unemployment. Recent studies only briefly examined how the youths fared since the transition by comparing the 1995 October Household ...