Browsing Research Publications by Author "Burger, Rulof"
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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 ... -
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 ...