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Trends in the intergenerational transmission of education among black South Africans

Magejo, Prudence; Benhura, Miracle; Gwatidzo, Tendai - 2014

This paper investigates trends in intergenerational transmission of education among black South Africans - changes in correlation between parents' and children's education. Using data for 1954-1993 birth cohorts, we find a decrease in intergenerational transmission of education over the last...

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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

progress made by the post-apartheid society and state. A multi-dimensional approach is required to assess progress because it … services. While there has been previous studies tracking poverty trends over segments of the post-apartheid period, no previous … work has considered multi-dimensional deprivation over the two decades following the official fall of apartheid. We adopt …

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Xenophobic attacks, migration intentions and networks : evidence from the South of Africa

Friebel, Guido; Gallego, Juan Miguel; Mendola, Mariapia - 2011

We investigate how emigration flows from a developing region are affected by xenophobic violence at destination. Our empirical analysis is based on a unique survey among more than 1000 households, collected in Mozambique in summer 2008, a few months after a series of xenophobic attacks in South...

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Which Mexicans Are white? : enumerator-assigned race in the 1930 Census and the socioeconomic integration of Mexican Americans

Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2023

The authors explore unique complete-count data from the 1930 Census in which a respondent's race was assigned by enumerators and "Mexican" was one of the possible responses. Census enumerators frequently and selectively assigned a non-Mexican race - predominantly "white" - to U.S.-born...

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Homeward bound : how migrants seek out familiar climates

Obolensky, Marguerite; Tabellini, Marco; Taylor, Charles A. - 2024

This paper introduces the concept of "climate matching" as a driver of migration and establishes several new results. First, we show that climate strongly predicts the spatial distribution of immigrants in the US, both historically (1880) and more recently (2015), whereby movers select...

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The Great Migration and educational opportunity

Baran, Cavit; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan A. - 2023

This paper studies the impact of the First Great Migration on children. We use the complete count 1940 Census to estimate selection-corrected place effects on education for children of Black migrants. On average, Black children gained 0.8 years of schooling (12 percent) by moving from the South...

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The informal sector wage gap : new evidence using quantile estimations on panel data

Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2009

This paper provides new evidence on the wage gap between informal and formal salary workers in South Africa, Brazil and Mexico. We use rich datasets that allow us to define informality in a relatively comparable fashion across countries. We compute precise wage differentials by accounting for...

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Is informality bad? : evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa

Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2010

The informal sector plays an important role in the functioning of labor markets in emerging economies. To characterize better this highly heterogeneous sector, we conduct a distributional analysis of the earnings gap between informal and formal employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa,...

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Is there an informal employment wage penalty? : Evidence from South Africa

El Badaoui, Eliane (contributor); Strobl, Eric (contributor) - 2007

We estimate the wage penalty associated with working in the South African informal sector. To this end we use a rich data set on non-self employed males that allows one to accurately distinguish workers employed in the informal sector from those employed in the formal sector and link individuals...

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The formal sector wage premium and firm size

Badaoui, Eliane (contributor); Strobl, Eric (contributor); … - 2007

We show theoretically that when larger firms pay higher wages and are more likely to be caught defaulting on labour taxes, then large high-wage firms will be in the formal sector and small low-wage firms will be in the informal sector. The formal sector wage premium is thus just a firm size wage...

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