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Spatial differences in stunting and household agricultural production in South Africa : (re-)examining the links using national panel survey data

Otterbach, Steffen; Rogan, Michael - 2017

. Even more important, although under-nutrition retains a strong spatial component, once observable differences in living …

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The long walk : considering the enduring spatial and racial dimensions of deprivation two decades after the fall of apartheid

Burger, Ronelle; Berg, Servaas van der; Walt, Sarel van der - 2015

This study examines the enduring spatial and racial dimensions of poverty and deprivation in South Africa to assess the … services. While there has been previous studies tracking poverty trends over segments of the post-apartheid period, no previous … the Total Fuzzy and Relative approach proposed by Cheli and Lemmi (1995) to derive a poverty index with nine dimensions of …

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The capability threshold : re-examining the definition of the middle class in an unequal developing country

Burger, Ronelle; McAravey, Camren; Berg, Servaas van der - 2015

only slightly and this is attributed to sluggish labour market growth and low quality of education. We find that the middle …

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Surviving unemployment without state support : unemployment and household formation in South Africa

Klasen, Stephan; Woolard, Ingrid - 2000

members pulls many households supporting them into poverty. We also show that the household formation responses draw some …

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Determinants of income mobility and household poverty dynamics in South Africa

Woolard, Ingrid (contributor); Klasen, Stephan (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Small-scale farming and food security : the enabling role of cash transfers in South Africa's former homelands

Fintel, Dieter von; Pienaar, Louw - 2016

Cash transfers successfully alleviate poverty in many developing countries. South Africa is a case in point …

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Higher education access and outcomes for the 2008 South African national matric cohort

Broekhuizen, Hendrik van; Berg, Servaas van der; … - 2016

This study uses a unique dataset to investigate university access, throughput, and dropout for the 2008 South African national matric cohort. The findings show that university access in South Africa is limited, even among learners who perform relatively well in matric. In addition, those who do...

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Does crime deter South Africans from self-employment?

Grabrucker, Katharina; Grimm, Michael - 2016

An often-heard argument is that South Africa's very high crime rate is the main reason for the country's small share of business ownership. Combining a fixed-effects model with an instrumental variable approach, we estimate the effect of crime on self-employment and business performance using a...

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A detailed decomposition analysis of the public-private sector wage gap in South Africa

Kwenda-Magejo, Prudence; Benhura, Miracle - 2015

The present study examines the public-private sector wage gap in South Africa using individual cross section data for 2000-7. Results from unconditional quantile regressions and generalised Oaxaca-Blinder type decompositions show that the wage gap is inverted-U shaped across the wage...

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The employment effects of ethnic politics

Amodio, Francesco; Chiovelli, Giorgio; Hohmann, Sebastian - 2019

This paper studies the labor market consequences of ethnic politics in African democracies. We combine geo-referenced data from 15 countries, 32 parliamentary elections, 62 political parties, 243 ethnic groups, 2,200 electoral constituencies, and 400,000 individuals. We implement a regression...

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