A striking feature of labour supply in South Africa is the phenomenal expansion in the labourforce participation of women from 38 percent in 1995 to 46 percent in 2004. Even so, theirparticipation has been persistently lower than that of men whose participation rates were 58percent and 62...

The paper advocates for a new measure of the ethnic identity of migrants, models itsdeterminants and explores its explanatory power for various types of their economicperformance...