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Exploring the eligibility criteria of the child support grant and its impact on poverty
(Springer Verlag, 2017)
One of the most important policy objectives in the post-apartheid South African economy is to reduce poverty. Although economic growth and job creation are the preferred sources of alleviating poverty and inequality, social ...
The targeting of zero-rated basic foodstuffs under value-added tax (VAT) in South Africa
(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 ...
Alternative definitions of informal sector employment in South Africa
(Stellenbosch University, 2008)
Before the introduction of the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) in 2008, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) has been using the same methodology to derive the informal sector employment throughout the years, focusing ...
Educational attainment and intergenerational social mobility in SA
(World Bank Group, 2005)
To a large degree, the notoriously high levels of income inequality in\nSouth Africa have their roots in differential access to wage-earning opportunities in the labour market, which in turn are influenced by family ...
The comparability of income and expenditure surveys 1995, 2000 and 2005/2006
(Stellenbosch University, 2017)
The Income and Expenditure Survey (IES) conducted by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA)
between September 2005 and August 2006 was the third of its kind, after similar surveys in
October 1995 and October 2000. The main ...
Trade unions in an emerging economy :The case of South Africa
(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 on the hours worked of the employed, 1997 – 2011
(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 ...
The comparability of labour force survey (LFS) and quarterly labour force survey (QLFS)
(Stellenbosch University, 2009)
Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) has been collecting labour market data since
1993 with the October Household Survey (OHS), which was conducted annually
between 1993 and 1999, as well as the Labour Force Survey (LFS), ...
Wage trends in post-apartheid South Africa: Constructing an earnings series from household survey data
(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 ...
Revisiting the COVID-19 vulnerability index in South Africa
(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 ...