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This paper examines the nature and evolution of horizontal and vertical human-capital inequality in South Africa since … inequality has been falling in South Africa although with significant variation across the country. Finally we examine the … relationship between changing inequality over time and electoral outcomes. We find that vertical inequality amongst youth is very …
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Post-apartheid poverty and inequality trends have been the subject of intensive analysis, yet relatively little … attention has been devoted to the impact of differential price movements on the measurement of poverty and inequality. This … paper aims to tell the story of the evolution of both money-metric and non-money-metric poverty and inequality in post …
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and infer the role of growth in the evolution of inequality of opportunity over time. We show that despite a reduction in … the real value of the household consumption and a surge in outcome inequality between 2009/10 and 2010/11, the consumption … dynamic appears to alleviate inequality of opportunity in Uganda. …
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Overall income inequality in South Africa is very high, and inequality generated in the labour market is a key driver … of inequality. In this paper, I use the Post-Apartheid Labour Market Series, the General Household Surveys, and … administrative tax microdata to describe earnings inequality in South Africa. I estimate Gini coefficients, the variance of log …
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This paper aims at providing new evidence over the effect of conventional monetary policy shocks on wage inequality …
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Inequality in South Africa is the enduring legacy of racial discrimination. We use a dynamic perspective to show the … reducing inequality. We present a machine-learning analysis based on household survey data in the Post-Apartheid Labour Market … behaviour of variables related to labour market status, and labour income inequality. The empirical investigation covers the …
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groups (relative to non-exporters). Wage inequality within exporters is not driven by exporting but rather by characteristics …
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the dynamic study of inequality through the lens of social stratification. …
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Using administrative tax records from South Africa for the period 2011-14, I find that firm wage premia explain 25 per cent of the total wage variance, 60 per cent of the gender wage gap, and 40 per cent of the gap between workers in the middle and the bottom of the income distribution. Next, I...
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, that direct taxes and cash transfers are overall progressive and reduce inequality and poverty. Our disaggregated analyses …
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