the dynamic study of inequality through the lens of social stratification. …

In this paper we identify some of the drivers of changes in the distribution of earnings and earnings inequality in the … South African labour market between 2000 and 2014. Although the overall level of earnings inequality between 2000 and 2011 … was high and relatively stable, there were nonetheless some interesting shifts in the factors generating inequality. The …

We synthesize the findings from several recent papers on South Africa's very high income inequality. These papers use … individual earnings inequality in South Africa. Increased returns to experience and an increased rate of return to tertiary … the earnings and income distributions have done well in both absolute and relative terms, thus increasing inequality …

Africa, levels of inequality remain stubbornly high. The focused contribution of this paper is to examine the role of income … from different sources driving these high levels of inequality, and which ones cause changes over time. We use data from … from 2008 and 2014 to assess the role of different income sources in overall inequality and compare snapshots of the level …

Work done by the African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research (ACEIR) has documented the many-faceted nature of … inequality in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa. Conventionally measured inequality ranges from moderate (in Ghana) to extremely … high (in South Africa). Trying to tell one coherent story about African inequality, however, is difficult. The construction …

inequality in South Africa. Using a static tax-benefit microsimulation model with input datasets that were adjusted to reflect …

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 …

A substantial amount of research has been conducted examining inequality in South Africa using multiple data sources … estimate income and consumption inequality in South Africa between 1993 and 2017, and we discuss the comparability of income … and consumption measures across surveys. We compare our estimates of inequality to those in the World Income Inequality …