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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 ...
Wage trends in post-apartheid South Africa: Constructing an earnings series from household survey data
(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 ...
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 ...
The impact of inter-provincial migration on the labor market outcomes in two developed provinces in South Africa
(2020)
This study used the South African Census 2011 data to examine the impact of interprovincial
migration on the labor market outcomes in the Western Cape and Gauteng,
the two most developed and popular inter-provincial ...
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 in poverty and inequality since the political transition
(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
(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 ...
How invariant is South African child poverty to the choice of equivalence scale or poverty measure?
(Stellenbosch University, 2008)
This paper offers evidence on the sensitivity of child poverty in South Africa to changes in the Adult
Equivalence Scale (AES) and updates the child poverty profile based on the Income and Expenditure
Survey 2005/06. ...
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), ...