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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 ...
Investigating factors influencing class attendance and performance of first-year economics students
(Stellenbosch University, 2021)
The academic success of first-year Economics students has been examined in many South
African studies in Economic Education. These studies controlled for differences in demographic
characteristics, last school examination ...
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 ...
Factors influencing the comparability of poverty estimates across household surveys
(Taylor & Francis group, 2016)
The South African existing literature on poverty mainly adopted the
money-metric approach to examine poverty levels and trends since
the advent of democracy. In general, poverty increased until the end
of the 1990s, ...
Exploring the influence of students’ Matric Accounting knowledge on the successful completion of a BCom Accounting mainstream degree: A comparative study at a university in the Western Cape
(Stellenbosch University, 2022)
Studies conducted nationally found that students with Matric Accounting knowledge performed
significantly better than students without it in university-level Accounting modules (Baard,
Steenkamp, and Kidd 2010; Papageorgiou ...
Employed yet poor: Low-wage employment and workingpoverty in South Africa
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2020)
Working poverty exists worldwide and has shown an increase inprevalence over the past few decades. Over the years, there hasbeen an increase in the number and severity of low-wageemployment, which in turn contributes ...
Investigating volunteer activities in South Africa
(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
(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 ...
Defining and measuring time poverty in South Africa
(Routledge, 2023)
This study primarily adopted the absolute approach to examine time poverty in South Africa by analysing the 2000 and 2010 Time Use Survey data. The findings indicated that absolute time-poor individuals were predominantly ...